Random "Did you know...?"s

[crustybread5]

Post weird, wonderful and interesting facts to amaze us all

Here's mine:

Did you know..

Cheese consumption in the United States is expected to grow by 50 percent between now and 2013.

Scientists have discovered that certain brain chemicals in our tears are natural pain relievers.

A gene for a light-sensitive protein in the eye is what resets the body's "internal clock."

The 90-million-year-old remains of seven pack-traveling carnivorous dinosaurs known as Mapusaurus were discovered in an area of southern Argentina nicknamed "Jurassic Park."

[AngelOfLight0270]

hmm Never knew That  ??? Umm Space People (haha I'm dumb)Will Travel To pluto in 2010.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Most of these are sleep based... (I like knowing sleepy stuff)
DID YOU KNOW....
-We dream 1,600 times per year?
-Keith Richards, Guitarist for the Rolling Stones, dreamed up the music for the song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction?"
-When we dream, our brain works like a computer. They consider what are choices are in life and organize messages to broadcast only when we dream.
-Napolean Bonaparte would wake up at 3am and demand his secretary write out all of his thoughts.
-The loudest snore registered 90 decibels.
-Humans smell up to 10,000 different odors.
-Most of us need 2,000 words to communicate.
-Babies have more bones than adults.
-The average brain weighs about 3lbs.
-There are 72 letters in the Cambodian alphabet.
-5,000 languages have been identified on Earth.
-We have 5 stages of sleep.
-In Rome, soldiers ate garlic because they believed it gave them special strength.
-20 million pounds of garlic is grown and consumed each year.
-The largest tomato that ever weighed was four and a half pounds.
(hehe. I like "did you know's?")

Some weird (but real) Museums:
-The U.S. National Tick collection (contains about 1 million dead ticks... Ick!) in Statesboro, Georgia.
-The Frog Fantasies Museum in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
-The American Sanitary Plumbing Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
-The Crayola Hall of Fame in Easton, Pennsylvania.
-The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
-Marvin Johnson's Gourd Museum in Fuguay-Varina, North Carolina.
-The Tooth Fairy Museum in Deerfield, Illinois.
-The Church of One Tree Museum (a church made out of a single redwood tree that stands about 275 feet tall) in Santa Rosa, California.
-The Combat Cockroach Hall of Fame in Plano, Texas. <--That's my favorite! Hehe!

[razi]

How about some animal facts?

There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard. 

Camels have three eye lids.
 
Flying squirrels don’t really fly, they glide from branch to branch. A blanket-like furry skin stretches their front and hind legs, and acts as a parachute, enabling the squirrel to soar like a kite.
 
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

No two zebras have the same striped pattern.
 
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 

A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes.

Toucans are found only in tropical areas of Central and South America. Some Toucan species have bills more than half as long as their bodies. 

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. 

The longest recorded life span of a tapeworm was 35 years! 

Roadrunners are large (about two feet long) crested birds that prefer to run rather than fly. They eat rattlesnakes whole, and they can sprint 15 miles per hour. 

A purple finch is really crimson in color. 

You're 20 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to be bit by a rattlesnake. 

A male Angler fish attaches itself to a female and never lets go. Their vascular systems unite and the male becomes entirely dependent on the female's blood for nutrition. 

Bengal tigers are the most water loving of the big cats. They will even chase prey into the water. 
 

[Goblin Cat 😸]

I have two things to say to that razi:
1) Poor Goldfish!
2) Poor Ostrich!

[iKero-chu™]

Heres some other animal facts  :

Penguins can jump 6 feet in the air.
Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
Polar bears are left handed.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) means 'barking dog'.
Katydids have ears in their front legs.
The Basenji is the only dog which does not bark.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Coconuts kill more people than sharks.
 A pig's orgasm can last for 30 minutes.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
A swan is the only bird with a penis
Zebras can''t see the color orange.
The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound. ( thats what studies show but I`m not positive about that =/ )
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
Pigs are the only animal that will drink hard liquor voluntarily
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
The colour of a yak's milk is pink.   :lovestruck4:

[Rhakshi]

very interesting, the only thing I know is that most cats are left handed (or pawed) which, incoeherintly I am left handed :th_Pyong-1:

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Go Penguins!

[Scalie]

Mushroom are white because they breathe in oxygen and expel CO2.

[KitsuneSix]

 :peek: Cheese is so sick tasting.  :sick:

[iKero-chu™]

 :peek: Cheese is so sick tasting.  :sick:

lol

[Scalie]

Dragons were real!!

Read this: http://www.colba.net/~tempest/Draconology/

I found it a few years ago. It's because of this that I believe that they were real.

[iKero-chu™]

Ooo coolies 

[tweak]

Hmm, let's believe any old webpage on the internet. *goes off to create a webpage saying that dinosaurs are being reincarnated by the ancient power of Moshititsu*

[razi]

Well, from what Kiba posted, I hope that if reincarnation is possible, that i am reborn as a pig and not a lion. Quality over quantity!