Here's some of my favourite ones:

1. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

2. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

3. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

4. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

5. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

6. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

7. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

8. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

9. Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

10. A dead sparrow immersed in a liquid will make a sound like a crying baby.

I didn't make any of these up, I found them all on the net. Not saying they didn't make them up, but funny all the same. I've actually seen a dead sparrow immersed in liquid and heard no such noise.

8. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Awesome!!!!

Champagne isn't fizzy, It's invisible dirt and dust particles that cause the bubbles

Got to admit, that was funny!!! Only in paris.

It's only 26 miles upwards, before you reach what is technically "space"

A stitch in time saves 9

A duck's quack does not echo, apparently!

If you gently shake an egg before cracking it, the yolk will stay dead center!

7. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.



And six slightly smaller ones for recreational/procreational puposes. :hihi:

Facetious = A word that has all the vowels running in alphabetical order.

There's another word too, but I've forgotten what it is :huh:

A duck's quack does not echo, apparently!

sorry you are wrong on that one... i came across this claim some time ago and googled it...

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm

sorry...:(

http://www.amusingfacts.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/

its cheating i know... i know...

Butterflies taste with their feet.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"
All polar bears are left handed..
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

BARBIE'S FULL NAME IS BARBRA MILLICENT ROBERTS

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"


How about Elephant?

You can only fold a piece of paper 8 times.......I think i got it right!

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"

hmn... these are pretty damn close if you ask me.

billionth, millionth, seventh, trillionth, zillionth

How about Elephant?


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livestrong
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Originally Posted by gabby
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"

hmn... these are pretty damn close if you ask me.

billionth, millionth, seventh, trillionth, zillionth

close, but they don't rhyme

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"


Or ORANGE, SILVER and PURPLE

My favourite fact would be "Not all facts that people get from the internet are true".

Facetious = A word that has all the vowels running in alphabetical order.

There's another word too, but I've forgotten what it is :huh:

It's 'almost'.

Rats are unable to vomit.

The innards of the slugs in my garden are the same shade of orange as human subcutaneous body fat. Fact.

The innards of the slugs in my garden are the same shade of orange as human subcutaneous body fat. Fact.

Is that what my blubbery bits are actually made out of? I'll have to start rubbing salt into my cellulite in the garden after it gets dark. :hihi:

There is only 1 word in the English dictionary that ends with `MT`

DREAMT

codeman

there are 7 days in a week (bet you didnt know that).

Switzerland is the only country in the world to have a square flag!

Here's my two current favourites:

The average prostate gland is the size of a walnut

Only horses and humans have hymans (virgin horses and humans, presumably!)

You can only fold a piece of paper 8 times

In half;).

Gorillas can't swim.

It's (or was) illegal to eat snakes in Iraq on a Sunday.

if you chew gum whilst cutting onions, its stops you from crying

You cannot lick your own elbow!

Or ORANGE, SILVER and PURPLE

There is an English word not in common usage - hurple (can also be spelt hirple), meaning to limp, which rhymes with purple

St johns wood is the only underground station not to have a letter from the word mackerel

You can only fold a piece of paper 8 times.......I think i got it right!

It's six times. :)

Tmesis is the only word in the English language beginning with 'tm'.

[QUOTE=segasonic]It's six times. :)

I have just tried this and managed 7 folds with no problem. In any case it must depend on the paper thickness and size.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.

You cannot lick your own elbow!

Unless you cut your arm off at the shoulder! Having said that I'd probably be more interested in getting to A and E. ;)

In Toy Story, the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in The Shining.

There is an English word not in common usage - hurple (can also be spelt hirple), meaning to limp, which rhymes with purple

Therefore it can't be used. A little like Grunth/month.

I think it's all covered here (http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words3.html), as you may have found.

In the Dominican Republic there is a percentage of female children, who, at the age of twelve change into males. The are known as Guevedoces (literally translated as penis at twelve)

In the Sheffield area, people visit 'little- known facts' websites and pass it off as their own work on the Sheffield Forum.
Sounds so pathetic as to be made up, but it is actually true:hihi:

my shoe size is 8 1/2
not many people knew that

You cannot lick your own elbow!


Actually I can...sorry!

Our bodily weight is the pull of gravity on our bodies. Gravity is an attractive force between any two bodies in the universe. Most gravity forces are incredibly small (for example, the gravity force between your body and the newspaper you are now reading). But our weight is not small as it is the attractive force between our bodies and the entire Earth beneath us. Our body weight depends not just on our bodies but also the Earth's mass (mass = total amount of matter) as well as the distance between the Earth's surface and the center of the Earth (where all of the Earth's mass can be considered to be concentrated). So if you don't like your weight, don't blame yourself. The Earth's mass and the Earth's radius are just as responsible. If you were to travel to our moon, you would weigh only 1/6th as much as on the Earth. (A 150 lb. Person would only weigh 25 lbs. on the moon!) While your body hasn't changed, the moon has far less matter than the Earth as well as being a bit smaller, so the gravity pull is much less than Earth's surface. So our weight depends on where we are.

There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.

There are more people alive today than have ever died.

You cannot lick your own elbow!

i can if i twist my arm a bit.

We eat around 8 spiders in our lifetime whilst we sleep.

Dust is made of skin.

If you breathe through your nose while you sleep. you sniff up your bogies. (i made it up, but its probobly a fact)

stroking a spider causes it to go bold

Our bodily weight is the pull of gravity on our bodies. Gravity is an attractive force between any two bodies in the universe. Most gravity forces are incredibly small (for example, the gravity force between your body and the newspaper you are now reading). But our weight is not small as it is the attractive force between our bodies and the entire Earth beneath us. Our body weight depends not just on our bodies but also the Earth's mass (mass = total amount of matter) as well as the distance between the Earth's surface and the center of the Earth (where all of the Earth's mass can be considered to be concentrated). So if you don't like your weight, don't blame yourself. The Earth's mass and the Earth's radius are just as responsible. If you were to travel to our moon, you would weigh only 1/6th as much as on the Earth. (A 150 lb. Person would only weigh 25 lbs. on the moon!) While your body hasn't changed, the moon has far less matter than the Earth as well as being a bit smaller, so the gravity pull is much less than Earth's surface. So our weight depends on where we are.

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: my guess is you copied this from a newspaper.

Seahorses change sex depending on the temperature of the water!

xxx

Introducing your fingers into a trifle is likely to worry your critters n kin.

During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to
five hundred times its normal size.

strawberries aren't berries, but bananas are

(..or so i've been told!...)

Strawberries are the only fruit to have the seeds on the outside.

xxx

Paedophiles, actually, have DNA more in common with the common crab- than they do with other human beings.

This is scientific fact. There is no ACTUAL evidence to support this, but it IS a scientific fact.

Dr Fox.

Dunno if this has been posted before:

But it's still technically legal to drive your sheep through the centre of Sheffield. (It's either sheep or geese...I forget)

Your foot is the same size from your wrist to the bend in your forearm.

xxx

In the Middle Ages, carrots used to be purple.

The average male human, will shave off over 32 feet of facial hair in thier lifetime:o.

Ooh I'm full of useless facts!

Did you know Jimmy Choos (the famous beautiful shoes) where designed by a man called Jimmy Chow, whose name was spelt incorrectly on his birth certificate which lead to the famous Jimmy Choo!

He also designed and made his first shoe at age 11!

He also designed and made his first shoe at age 11!

does he have an older brother by any chance ?

does he have an older brother by any chance ?

Hmm, I don't know. Why?

does he have an older brother by any chance ?

Yes, his name is Jimmy Two Choos :thumbsup: