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yusime
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Location: United States
Registered: April 2008
Messages: 195
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In the 1800’s anyone in England who unsucessfully attempted suicide faced the death penalty.
“Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be excellent riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages are $25.00 a week.” This is a mid 1800’s help wanted sign for the Pony Express.
In 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River.
Men get hiccups more often than women do.
Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.
A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream.
55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don’t like sex.
On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.
In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.
The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day; that’s about 2 1/2 years of your life down the drain.
The average American spends six months at red lights throughout his or her life.
By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
According to the World Heath Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
On average, humans have 9,000 taste buds in their mouths, tongues, and throats.
The average person will swallow 295 times while eating.
In your lifetime your body will produce more thatn 25,000 quarts of saliva.
Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.
On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left side. This is due to wealthy women using slaves many years ago to dress them. The buttons were on the right side to the slaves who buttoned up the shirts…
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivilant of three times around the world.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep.
Official studies have found that right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and visa-versa.
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year.
More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.
The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.
The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.
Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5 feet every hour.
At 90′ below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein
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>In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.
I'll swear I can do that overnight... lol ;-D
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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>Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
Shouldn't that be, 'Iron is the only metal that does rust,' bearing in mind that rust is iron oxide?
>Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Don't you mean 'women can selectively hear better'? 
David
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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Women can hear the softest whisper a hundred yards away if it is about them! But they do rust.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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james
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Getting started |
Location: England
Registered: September 2008
Messages: 24
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True,
guys are the same and they rust as well?
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