Bizarre Facts

**joxville** · 18-Jun-08, 18:12

63% of Britains barbers are partially or totally bald.

**joxville** · 18-Jun-08, 18:22

1. Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon.
2. All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside Jupiter.
3. Neutron stars are so condensed that a fragment the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all the people on earth put together.
4. The Earth weighs approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
5. Uranus is visible to the naked eye.

**mccaugm** · 18-Jun-08, 18:35

If you stand with your arms straight out from your shoulders the length from your longest finger tip to longest finger tip is the same as your height.

**mccaugm** · 18-Jun-08, 18:44

http://www.liquidice.co.uk/joke/strangefacts.html

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

If you are chased by a crocodile, run zigzag, a crocodile is not good at making sharp turns.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not downstairs.

Lobsters have blue blood.

**George Brims** · 18-Jun-08, 20:22

Originally Posted by rfr10

This is also not fact. Many people have prooven this statement to be false. It IS possible.

There was a lad on "America's got Talent" last night who licked his eyebrows. I bet he could reach his elbow.

**George Brims** · 18-Jun-08, 20:23

Originally Posted by joxville

5. Uranus is visible to the naked eye.

Well only if you use a mirror. Which I would rather not.

**joxville** · 18-Jun-08, 20:46

1. Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
2. Martin Van Buren,(1837-41),was the first president to be born a US citizen.
3. Gerald Ford,(1974-77), & Bill Clinton,(1993-2001), were both adopted as children.
4. George Washington was the only president not to belong to a political party.
5. Theodore Roosevelt's,(1901-1912),wife & mother both died on the same day.

**Julia** · 18-Jun-08, 22:46

Originally Posted by armanisgirl

You can't sneeze and keep your eyes open - apparent fact, which no doubt I will be told is wrong (Apprently your eyes will pop out if you did??????) I haven't tried to disprove this 'fact' for fear of losing my eyeballs!

I can sneeze with my eyes open, I have to in case I sneeze while I'm driving.

My contribution is a duck's quack does not echo

The average person's skin weighs 9lb

Your hand is the same size as your face

**AfternoonDelight** · 19-Jun-08, 13:11

Vindicated! Thanks Jox!!

**AfternoonDelight** · 19-Jun-08, 13:12

Originally Posted by joxville

5. Uranus is visible to the naked eye.

Mine's not!

**AfternoonDelight** · 19-Jun-08, 13:13

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit!!

**AfternoonDelight** · 19-Jun-08, 13:16

According to Genesis 1:2022 the chicken came before the egg

Belter!! Now you know...

**joxville** · 19-Jun-08, 18:23

Originally Posted by Julia

My contribution is a duck's quack does not echo

Sorry Julia, it's just an urban myth.

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/

"A duck's quack doesn't echo" is a much quoted scientific myth. In spring 2003 it was quoted on Home Truths on BBC Radio 4 and Shooting Stars on BBC 2. You can listen to our sound files on Home Truths by going to the BBC4 web site and "listening again". Salford Acoustics was the source of the story being presented in the national and international media when we proved that a duck's quack does echo as part of the British Association Festival of Science.

(c) University of Salford, www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk

**armanisgirl** · 19-Jun-08, 19:17

Frogs levitate if there is a strong enough magnetic field! FACT

(I saw it on the back of a bus that was advertising a science website hahaha)

**joxville** · 19-Jun-08, 19:32

Originally Posted by armanisgirl

Frogs levitate if there is a strong enough magnetic field! FACT

(I saw it on the back of a bus that was advertising a science website hahaha)

Here it is armanisgirl:

http://www.physics.org/facts/frog.asp

**2little2late** · 19-Jun-08, 23:57

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

**2little2late** · 20-Jun-08, 00:07

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

Only one-third of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.