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Funny But True Facts ..... by Bisshop123(f): 11:55am On Apr 18, 2020
1.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.


2. A Teenager is...

A person who can't remember to walk the dog but never forgets a phone number.

A weight watcher who goes on a diet by giving up candy bars before breakfast.

A youngster who receives his/her allowance on Monday, spends it on Tuesday, and borrows from his/her best friend on Wednesday.

Someone who can hear a song by Madonna played three blocks away but not his mother calling from the next room.

A whiz who can operate the latest computer without a lesson but can't make a bed.

A student who will spend 12 minutes studying for her history exam and 12 hours for her driver's license.

A youngster who is well informed about anything he doesn't have to study.

An enthusiast who has the energy to ride a bike for miles, but is usually too tired to dry the dishes.

A connoisseur of two kinds of fine music: Loud and Very Loud.

A young woman who loves the cat and tolerates her brother.

A person who is always late for dinner but always on time for a rock concert.

A romantic who never falls in love more than once a week.

A budding beauty who never smiles until her braces come off.

A boy who can sleep until noon on any Saturday when he suspects the lawn needs mowing.

An original thinker who is positive that her mother was never a teenager.

3. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.



4.An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.



5.Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.


6.Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.




7.you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.



8. Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.



9.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.




10.Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.


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Re: Funny But True Facts ..... by Nobody: 12:18pm On Apr 18, 2020
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Re: Funny But True Facts ..... by Bisshop123(f): 10:04am On Apr 27, 2020
There are many weird, strange but true facts in the world, among them are the following,

1.The word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where ‘oxy’ means ‘sharp’ and ‘moros’ means ‘stupid’.

,2. The two tiny holes drilled in BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

3.Most toilet papers sold for home use in France is pink.

4.The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

5.Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible.

6.Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur, the stripes are like fingerprints and no two Tigers have the same pattern.

7.The collars on Men's dress shirt used to be detachable.This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most.

8.In 2014, A missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

9.Sunset on Mars are Blue.

10.Some areas in Scotland and Japan switched to blue Street light at night, and saw a decrease in crime and suicide rate.

11.There are cells in human body called gay cell which caused leukaemia.

12.Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for funerals, speak to each other and show extreme intelligence.

13.Banks have therapist known as " Wealth Psychologist" who help ultra rich Clients, who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.

14.People don't sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.

15.February used to be the last month of the year which is why it has the shortest number of days.

16.Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called "guys"

17.Viagra, when dissolved in water can make cut flowers stay erect for up-to a week longer than they usually would.You can try it..

18.Hares are born with fur and can see, while Rabbits are born "naked" and blind.

19.The word ‘quarantine’ derives from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning ‘forty days’. This is because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plague-carrying rats they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.

20.Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in U.S are named as the heirs of their owner's will.

Hope you've learnt something today..
Re: Funny But True Facts ..... by Jentle244: 6:44pm On Apr 27, 2020
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Re: Funny But True Facts ..... by Silas6(m): 8:29pm On Apr 27, 2020
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Re: Funny But True Facts ..... by Bisshop123(f): 8:37am On Apr 30, 2020
The Supreme Court has its own private basketball court with an amazing nickname.
There's a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It's nickname? You guessed it: "the highest court in the land."

2. Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard.
Harvard might be hard to get into with a 4.5 percent admittance rate, but try this on for size: only 2.6 percent of Walmart applicants are accepted. How 'bout them apples? Now, we realize that this comparison isn't exactly flawless, but you have to admit that it's a funny fact.

3. A football fan once dedicated his obit to insulting an NFL team.
True story: A lifetime Cleveland Browns fan and season ticket holder requested in his obituary for "six Cleveland Browns pallbearers" at his funeral. Why? "So the Browns can let him down one last time." Burn!

4. There is a technical name for the "fear of long words."
It's called "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia."

5. Hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan.
Lake Superior State University in Michigan offers a unicorn hunting license. Unsurprisingly, the "chief herald of the Unicorn Hunters" was once quoted saying: "The pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest." We wish them nothing but good luck!

6. Someone actually paid $10,000 for invisible artwork.
An art collector once paid $10,000 for a "non-visible" sculpture created by actor James Franco. The artwork was billed as an "endless tank of oxygen." Um, yeah… it's called air. We're breathing some now… for free!

7. There is an official ruling for how many Tootsie Pop licks it takes to get to the center.
It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. Well, at least according to engineering students' scientific endeavor at Purdue University, who used a proprietary "licking machine" rather than a human tongue.

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8. Cows moo with regional accents.
"In small populations such as herds you would encounter identifiable dialectical variations which are most affected by the immediate peer group," explains one UK professor in an article for BBC News. In other words: You can take the cow out of Jersey…

9. A U.S. town had a 3-year-old mayor.
In the small town of Dorset, Minnesota, where a new mayor is picked every two years by drawing names out of a hat, a three year old named Robert Tufts was elected mayor in 2015. His governing style: "Being nice and no poopy talk." In 2018, I think we can all agree that the world could use more Robert Tufts in higher office.

10. The Cookie Monster has a real name.
It's Sid. No, seriously.

11. China censored the word for "censorship."
I guess you can't be guilty of a crime if nobody can describe what it is!

12. Barry Manilow didn't write his hit song "I Write the Songs."
And before he recorded it, Barry didn't even think it was a particularly good song.

13. Vending machines are bigger threats to humanity than sharks.
You're twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark, according to the New England Aquarium. So when is Discovery Channel premiering their "Vending Machine Week?"

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14. The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush has a name.
It's called a "nurdle."

15. Americans have a troubling understanding of computer code.
According to a 2014 study conducted by VoucherCloud and published by the L.A. Times, 1 in 9 Americans—exactly 11 percent of the population—think HTML is actually a disease. Oof!

16. The Queen is a total wedding crasher!
If you invite the Queen of England to your wedding, even if you're not royalty, there's a chance she might show up anyway, as she did with one unsuspecting couple in Manchester in 2012.

17. You can hire scary clowns to terrify children.
You can hire a clown in Switzerland to stalk your kid and creepily smash a cake into their face on their birthday. Seriously. As if "nice" clowns weren't terrifying enough!

18. Flowers like Viagra.
Here's a funny fact: If you put some Viagra in a vase, it will make flowers stand up straight for a week beyond when they would normally wilt, according to one study conducted by Israeli and Australian researchers.

19. Terrorist instructions were once replaced with cupcakes.
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced the bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.

20. There's an American town with a population of one…
Monowi, Nebraska, is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person. Yes, she owes taxes… To herself! She's in her 80s, and she's employed as the village's mayor, librarian, and bartender.

21. President Coolidge had a childish sense of humor.
Believe it or not, the 30th U.S. president thought it was hilarious to push the emergency buzzer on his desk and then hide when the Secret Service came running.

22. Some passengers go to insane lengths to avoid baggage fees.
In 2012, a man wore 60 shirts and nine pairs of jeans on an 11-and-a-half hour flight from China to Africa because he didn't want to pay the extra baggage fee. Though hilarious, we don't recommend it.

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23. A bridge for squirrels exists.
A town in Washington has a treetop bridge over a busy road that's just big enough for squirrels. It's called the "Nutty Narrows Bridge." Admit it. That's undeniably funny.

24. One brogrammer had an unusual way of weaning himself off Facebook.
Maneesh Sethi, a computer programmer, hired a woman (at $8 an hour) to slap him in the face every time he tried checking Facebook during working hours! Smartphone Addiction is real people!


25. Neil DeGrasse Tyson's surprising other career path isn't what you'd guess.
While he was in graduate school, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson considered becoming a stripper to earn extra money. according to an interview with The University of North-South Whales. He visited a club and watched dancers perform to the song Great Balls of Fire. Tyson left immediately and became a math tutor instead. We're thrilled, of course.

26. One Norwegian town has a super ironic name.
There's a village in southern Norway actually named "Hell." And get this: every winter it freezes over!

27. Some silly constitutional amendments never happened.
A U.S. constitutional amendment was proposed in 1893 suggesting that the country be renamed "The United States of Earth." There was another failed amendment, a few years prior, that wanted to abolish the presidency and install a "Roman-style triumvirate." As if the United States needed any more comparisons to the doomed Roman Empire!

28. People aren't always praying for what you'd expect.
According to a 2014 survey by a Christian retailer LifeWay in Nashville, 7 percent of Christian Americans pray for a parking spot!

29. We have musical roads.
There's a highway in Lancaster, California, that plays the "William Tell Overture"—or the theme from "The Lone Ranger"—whenever cars drive over it at 55 mph. Yes, roads that sing!

30. We're more prepped for a zombie invasion than you probably knew.
The actual U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a real website devoted to "zombie preparedness."


31. The brooding silence in the Twilight movies surprisingly adds up.
If you spliced them all together, there are exactly 26 minutes of quiet staring.

32. Lobsters communicate with their bladders.
Lobsters have bladders on either side of their heads, so they communicate by urinating at each other. If they want another lobster to know that they're happy or sad or angry or interested in a relationship, they say it with pee!


33. Dolly Parton lost a look-alike contest.
Dolly Parton once entered a celebrity look-alike contest, without revealing her true identity, at a club in San Francisco. She lost to a drag queen.

34. A man actually changed his name because he lost a bet.
After losing a drunken poker bet in 2009, a New Zealand man had his name legally changed to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova." It took five years, but the name was finally approved by the government. All 99 characters of his new name are on his passport.

35. Carrots just might turn you orange.
Want another funny fact? If you eat enough carrots—about three large carrots a day for several weeks—it increases the beta-carotene in your blood and could turn your skin orange.

36. People hate privacy policies (and reading the fine print in general).
It would take 76 workdays (if you work an 8-hour day) to read every online privacy policy you agree to in an average year.

37. Nabokov may be the real inventor of emojis.
Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, the guy responsible for the classic novel Lolita, came up with the idea for smiley emoticons in 1969.

38. High heels were originally for men.
When high-heel shoes first came into fashion in the 10th century, they were intended for men. It wasn't until the 18th century that more women wore high heels than men.


39. Latin America has flowers that look like lips.
There's a flower in the rainforests of Central and South America that resembles a puckering mouth covered in lipstick. It called Psychotria Elata, and it nicknamed Hooker's Lips!

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