27 Unbelievable Facts People Don't Know!

[omgwhokillme]

Found this on the interwebz. only like 1 or 2 appear to not be facts.

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.

24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be
able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after
such a large amount. (Common Sense)

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of
Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone
just knows the first one.

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to
manage their death/concentration camps.

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier
than the weight of the human population.

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil
war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who
thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people
die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of
people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,
than before you finished reading this.

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the
number of all the people that have died. Ever.

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and
eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.

13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to
be made as the Simpsons movie.

12. Men can breastfeed babies.

11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which
you've probably never heard of.

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to
human beings and animals than to other plants.

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written
first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America
method). That's why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki
have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family
names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki
Ichiro.

8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.
Long Beach, WA.

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom
underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo
la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the
tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found
edible.

1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

Heres some more I found, You are more likely to know these though, and some of these dont seem real :yuck:

1.Abraham Lincoln was born in 1808. John F. Kennedy was born in 1908. Lincoln became president in 1860. JFK became president in 1960. They were both killed on Fridays. Booth who shot Lincoln was born in 1839 and Oswald who shot JFK was born in 1939. Lincoln's personal assistant was Kennedy while Kennedy's personal assistant was Lincoln. The names of the presidents elected after Lincoln and Kennedy were both Johnson's.

2. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

4. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."

5. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

6. Only two people signed the American Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until five years later.

7. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

8. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo.

10. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

11. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye," is from ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was: "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

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

13. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

14. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

15. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

16. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.

17. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

18. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

19. Cat's urine glows in a blacklight.

20. Coca-Cola was originally green.

21. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.

22. City with most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.

23. State with highest % of people who walk to work: Alaska.

24. Percent Of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percent Of America that is wilderness: 38%

25. A duck's quack does not echo and nobody knows why.

26. Cost of raising a medium sized dog to age of 11: $6400.

27. # Of people airborne of US at any given time: 61,000

28. % Of Americans who have visited Disney Land/World: 70%

29. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

30. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

31. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

32. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

33. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

34. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

35. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way taxicabs, for instance) but did now re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

36. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

37. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

38. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

39. Did you know that there are coffee flavored Pez?

40. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

41. The airplane Buddy Holly crashed in was the "American Pie." Thus the name of the Don McLean song.

42. When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

43. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

44. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades -King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

45. 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

46. "I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

47. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

48. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

49. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for black and whites.

50. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
51. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

[TwiceoveR]

Actually its true honey never goes bad. Number one is iffy for me.

[Marlo]

Im bored so....

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Seems reasonable

26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
not likely

25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
true

24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be
able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after
such a large amount. (Common Sense)
wha? o_0

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of
Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.
sweet xD

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
not true

21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone
just knows the first one.
and written by an englishman

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to
manage their death/concentration camps.
i think IBM started in 1974?

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier
than the weight of the human population.
hard to believe....think about it

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil
war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who
thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
gogo jesus wang!

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people
die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of
people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,
than before you finished reading this.
Actually 5 baby's everyone 1 second and 2 deaths

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
Urban legend?

15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the
number of all the people that have died. Ever.
Blatant lie!

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and
eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
fatty's

13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to
be made as the Simpsons movie.
o rly?

12. Men can breastfeed babies.
men have nipples but cannot in fact produce milk.

11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which
you've probably never heard of.
what? *BANG*

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to
human beings and animals than to other plants.
instead of doing this they could have tried to cure cancer.

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written
first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America
method). That's why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki
have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family
names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki
Ichiro.
lol xD

8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
Go Abe!

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
SHIZA!

6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.
Long Beach, WA.
/care :P

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom
underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
true actually o_0

4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo
la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.
Crazy mexicans!

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Thomas had the better version

2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the
tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found
edible.
i still wouldnt eat it...would you?

1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Texas can hold 10 Billion people? o_0

[omgwhokillme]

Breastfeeding men. Nuff said
Insects in chocolate bars
Exploding head syndrom
Found those links using google.
Updates: IBM started in 1911
Seawaters Composition ( first table, Argon)

[tyman2006]

you sure those facts are true?

[Gnomaged]

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted
Michael jackson owns it along with all the other beatles songs,

[Enfeebleness]

27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.

315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.

A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell

A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.

A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".

A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.

http://www.greatfacts.com/

Jesus christ their is a lot of facts there...
The first page that you get there is just the numbers and "A " page, and it's in alphabetical order o_O

Post some more interesting ones you find there ^^

Unfortunetly alot seem to be repeats, and it's not really so much in alphabetical order >.<
BTW: Their's 40 pages.

[TwiceoveR]

Orange

Door Hinge

Guess not really one word, but it still rhymes.

[WoWLegend]

ever heard of a purple nurple? XD

[X-Gogeta]

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of
Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.

LOL... That's awesome :P.

Although the whole world population in texas ... No -_-.

[Enfeebleness]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nurple

http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi...rg1=syl&org2=l

Atleast you two tried
BTW: Hinge and Orange don't rhyme in the first place....

[AWEO Master]

Doesnt door hinge rhyme with orange and Go! is the shortest sentence

[laineter]

this post was really good and can learn a lot with it. hey where did you get this? cud you please tell me.

[WoWLegend]

Doesnt door hinge rhyme with orange and Go! is the shortest sentence

"Go!" isnt a complete sentence. "Ready, set, go!" is.

[DLC]

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet

OWNED