Random weird facts

[Beth1989]

any random weird facts? like swans are the only birds with penises? (dont no if thats true...)

[Chillum]

Apparently...The country of Brazil got it's name from the Nut, not the other way around. (this is based on no research at all, just something I read).

[libertie]

Carl Benz named his cars Mercedes after his wife!

[ems27]

the name Wendy was never heard before Peter Pan.

[Cockney_si]

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

[hectic]

Indians name their offspring after the first thing they see when they leave their teepee, hence Sitting Bull etc

[Dark Angel]

the male peacock is prettier than the female.  

[Xollob]

Women are twelve times more radioactive than men.

On average every year, four Welshmen are killed by the accidental inhalation of their own beards.

Click here if you don't believe me.

[Octavius]

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

[Octavius]

Apparently Thomas Edison (the inventor of the lightbulb) was scared of the dark.

[Octavius]

It would cost �221,068 to fill up a Boeing 747 at my local BP garage!!

[Cheesefreek]

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

[Clanad]

The most powerful earthquake in the U.S. occurred along the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi Valley in 1811-1812. The effects of shaking from these magnitude 8+ earthquakes caused church bells to ring in Boston, Massachusetts, nearly  1000 miles away.

The Killer Whale is a member of the dolphin family

A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body.

In older people, memory is best early in the morning and declines by mid-afternoon (Aha!)

Oenophobia is the fear of wines

The earth travels through space at 660,000 mile per hours...

[OBonio]

That artist who cut his own ear off invented the helicopter.

[kaktus]

Nope Obonio he painted sunflowers, the one who invented the helicopter painted the girl we have just learned had no eyebrows :0)

i'm in an annoying mood, so I would like to point out that Mercedes was named after Benz' daugther not his wife.

And because I'm so annoying I have no weird facts of my own :0)

[Xollob]

Any Frenchman wishing to start a family with a Polish woman risks the debilitating genetic condition known as French Polishing, which gives the unfortunate offspring's skin the appearance of teak. The disease was thought to have been eradicated until David Dickinson, Dale Winton and Des O'Connor tested positive at the 1940 Olympics.

[Octavius]

Talking of which, there is more fiber in an orange than in most other fruits and veggies!

[jeepster]

a snail has its teeth on its tongue

[indian]

men are truely the weaker sex.  More male babies are miscarried in the womb.

[sddsddean]

The world constipation record is 102 days. You should have seen the 103rd!!