Little known, Interesting & Random Facts

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  1. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    this thread is for facts that are intriguing and little known

    i'll start with:
    the QE2 was an seagoing luxury liner that made her maiden voyage in 1969.
    she consumed diesel fuel at the rate of 105 gallons to the mile.
     
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  3. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Coca Cola bottles were originally green.

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    Epson Salt baths are a good way of breaking your smoking addiction, the nicotine from your blood stream gets absorbed into it.
     
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  7. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    FACT: Coca-Cola was never green.
     
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    Frogs vomit by ejecting their stomachs and emptying them with their arms. Then they swallow their stomachs again.
     
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    bats endemic to new zealand spend more time crawling on the forest floor than flying, as they fill the niche of mice in other countries.
     
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    shrews
     
  11. Zephyr Humans are ONE Registered Senior Member

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    The average* total length of blood vessels in a human could reach to the moon and back.

    *arithmetic mean. There's no such thing as an 'average human'.
     
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    No they couldn't. They would brake under gravitational stress.

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  14. pasquala Living on a Prayer Registered Senior Member

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    LoL.
    It is impossible to lick your own elbow
     
  15. pasquala Living on a Prayer Registered Senior Member

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    How many of you are actually trying to lick your elbow right now?
     
  16. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Cockroaches spend more time cleaning themselves than cats.
     
  17. thedevilsreject Registered Senior Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    it is possible, it was on a programme called brainiac where they said it couldnt be done but viewers who could do it sent in photos
     
  18. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    a lightning strike is hotter than the surface of the sun.
     
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    Gli3-mediated repression is essential for the normal complement of mammary buds
     
  20. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Litle known fact: I wear whitey-tighties.
     
  21. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    My cat cleans her self about 3 times a day. Every night she does a full-body wash.
     
  22. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    whenever a human touches my cat, she begins cleaning herself.

    she must REALLY hate human scent or something.
     
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    The Quatro from Schick has 4 blades for an amazingly close shave.
     

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