strange but true..

(note: I know some of these are true, but some of these are from sources that may not be very reliable, so there are no guarantees that all are true =D)

• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

• over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! HAHAHAHAH. stupid birds! xD

• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, mélange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch

• It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

• Humans, dolphins and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

• 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.

• Polar bears are left handed.

• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

• A snail can sleep for 3 years.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.


so dumb. x)

i think the ruler looks more like a carrot and the rock looks more like a piece of poo poo. HAHAHA