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This thread is for people who have unusual, interesting, or strange facts or things to share, here's mine:

Tiger vs. Bull. Winner? The bull, they have faced off many times, and each time, the bull has ALWAYS WON.:eek:

This thread is for people who have unusual, interesting, or strange facts or things to share, here's mine:

Tiger vs. Bull. Winner? The bull, they have faced off many times, and each time, the bull has ALWAYS WON.:eek:
It's not the right time of day for strangeness from ME, but i'll point out that Drunk Commies Deleted and Minoriteeburg are quite good at daily weirdness briefings.

I do, however, possess COPIOUS amounts of material on most manners of weirdness. I'll ante with a short factoid here ...
Ulysses S. Grant smoked an average of about 20 cigars a day, which quite probably resulted in his death from oral cancer / cancer of the mouth and throat.

Ulysses S. Grant smoked an average of about 20 cigars a day, which quite probably resulted in his death from oral cancer / cancer of the mouth and throat.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :cool: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: !!!11!

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

What about Azerbaijan?

Everyone always forgets Azerbaijan. :(

friggin a, your right well, let me try again, The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

The word facetious is one of the few in the English language in which the vowels all appear in alphabetical order.

Cats have two spines.

Cats also have sensory organs all over their bodies. So if you stick duct tape to their side they think there's a wall there and promptly run sideways into an actual wall! :D

So if you stick duct tape to their side they think there's a wall there and promptly run sideways into an actual wall! :D
Oooh, gotta try that soon!!

The symbol (it looks like this: ~) over the spanish letter enyeh (I can't actually type it with my keyboard, but that is how the letter is pronounced in their alphabet) as in manana or anos, is called a Tilde.

Tennis was origionally played on an hourglass shaped court, with the net at the juncture.

Buenos Aires has more Psychiatrists than any other city on earth.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is officially named La Gioconda

The first leap year was 46 BC

500 pairs of false sideburns were used in the movie Gone with the Wind

heres some that I ran across

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

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!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

"The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dogs" uses every letter in the English Alphabet.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

I have a dent in the center of my chest. (About three inches?). I'm still a heartthrob though. :cool: It also makes me really fast at the breaststroke for some reason...

I can say the alphabet backwards more than twice as fast as I can forwards. (1.8 sec.).

I can stick out my shoulder blades (I've been dubbed stick shift by the swim and football team)

Never eaten a hamburger. Not a vegetarian.

I'm a jock and I do NS. Is that weird?

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. They are also nearly immune to radiation: if there was a nuclear war with lots of very tiny shrapnel flying around, they would be the last animals alive.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. Similarly, when syphilis was first recognized for what is actually is, it was called the "French disease" in England, and yes, the "English disease" in France.

Current estimates of the number of people killed per year in California alone by "smog" - the nasty mixture of fine particulate matter spewed out by cars, trucks, locomotives, ships, planes, refineries and other sources, which lodges deep in the lungs and is widely considered the most lethal form of air pollution, are 9 to 10,000. This would seem to indicate that the overall number of folks whose lives are hastened to a premature end by all air pollution in the USA is considerably higher than the 50,000 usually claimed (not to mention the zillions of cases of asthma and other lung-related conditions that cause untold personal as well as economic harm......). However, things may actually be twice or three times as bad as these figures point to - recent studies all over the place are telling us that air pollution is even deadlier on the whole, than almost anyone realizes - it's not just a matter of inconvenience, poor visibility and paranoia, but truly one of life and death, as well as quality of life for a great many throughout the entire "civilized" world!! Now, let's be generous with our figures and say that a comparable number of people - 50,000 or so - are killed WORLDWIDE each year by ALL forms of terrorism combined, and maybe 500 per year on the average over the past decade, for the USA. If one was to objectively look at these figures and designate funding priorities appropriately.... well, you get the idea: the USA's "anti-terrorism" budget, including the insanely expensive invasion and occupation of Iraq and the vast increases in "security"-related spending since 2001, is probably around $200+ billion dollars per year. Wonder how much is being spent to drastically and swiftly reduce the death rate, damage and other risks associated with air pollution in that country, which annually kills at least 100 times the number of people that "terrorism" does?? Better yet, i wonder how much it would cost to reduce the number of air-pollution related deaths by say, two thirds (66%)? I'm betting it would be considerably less than most people would consider "fair and reasonable" - and most of it would be borne by the enormously profitable fossil fuel industry at any rate!!

David Rice Atchinson was once president for a day.

In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

At which point they starve.

3 Australians die every year (on average) from licking 9V batteries.
Attila the Hun died from a nosebleed while celebrating his marriage.
Advance Australia Fair has 2 offical verses (1st and 3rd of the original) while the original song had 5 verses, the 1st 3rd and last of which I know.
I have a book full of this stuff.

Does this qualify as strange?

The life expectancy of 1st world countries is greater than that of 3rd world countries partially due to relativity (planes, trains, and automobiles).
(Yes I realize this is by an insignificant portion, but still...)

In Michigan, an average of 28 people per year die of being crushed by a vending machine.

I have a book full of this stuff.
All about Australians?

I've got *lots* of books on this stuff. :)

I have a book full of this stuff.


Which book? A bathroom reader-esque one?


Hummingbirds can fly upside-down

There are 4,000 characters in Chinese script

Birmingham, AL has 22 more miles of canals than Venice

Cranberry Jello is the only jello flavor that contains real fruits

Rastafarians of the 1960's turned the racists' image of them as primitive and straight out of the jungle into a defiant embracing of these concepts as a part of the African culture they see as having been stolen from them when they were taken from Africa on the slaveships.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. They are also nearly immune to radiation: if there was a nuclear war with lots of very tiny shrapnel flying around, they would be the last animals alive.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. Similarly, when syphilis was first recognized for what is actually is, it was called the "French disease" in England, and yes, the "English disease" in France.

Current estimates of the number of people killed per year in California alone by "smog" - the nasty mixture of fine particulate matter spewed out by cars, trucks, locomotives, ships, planes, refineries and other sources, which lodges deep in the lungs and is widely considered the most lethal form of air pollution, are 9 to 10,000. This would seem to indicate that the overall number of folks whose lives are hastened to a premature end by all air pollution in the USA is considerably higher than the 50,000 usually claimed (not to mention the zillions of cases of asthma and other lung-related conditions that cause untold personal as well as economic harm......). However, things may actually be twice or three times as bad as these figures point to - recent studies all over the place are telling us that air pollution is even deadlier on the whole, than almost anyone realizes - it's not just a matter of inconvenience, poor visibility and paranoia, but truly one of life and death, as well as quality of life for a great many throughout the entire "civilized" world!! Now, let's be generous with our figures and say that a comparable number of people - 50,000 or so - are killed WORLDWIDE each year by ALL forms of terrorism combined, and maybe 500 per year on the average over the past decade, for the USA. If one was to objectively look at these figures and designate funding priorities appropriately.... well, you get the idea: the USA's "anti-terrorism" budget, including the insanely expensive invasion and occupation of Iraq and the vast increases in "security"-related spending since 2001, is probably around $200+ billion dollars per year. Wonder how much is being spent to drastically and swiftly reduce the death rate, damage and other risks associated with air pollution in that country, which annually kills at least 100 times the number of people that "terrorism" does?? Better yet, i wonder how much it would cost to reduce the number of air-pollution related deaths by say, two thirds (66%)? I'm betting it would be considerably less than most people would consider "fair and reasonable" - and most of it would be borne by the enormously profitable fossil fuel industry at any rate!!


found that off of http://www.schnr-specimen-shells.com/Wierd.html didn't you

The Methuselah tree is the oldest living thing on Earth, about 5000 years old. It's exact location is kept hidden but it's somewhere near Las Vegas. This is partly to keep people from killing it and partly to keep it from killing people, because it's such a bore. I mean, if you think your grandad's stories are lame, just wait to hear this tree. Sure, a lot of interesting things happen in 5000 years, but it's still a tree.

Which book? A bathroom reader-esque one?

I have EIGHT of those.
Also Wallace & Wallechinsky's compendiums. Plus a bunch of other collections.