Fun Facts

[GeeP]

More little fun facts:

The average airliner has 157 wiring faults.

It takes 30 minutes to fully release the brakes on a freight train.

Radial engines have very tight cold valve clearances.  As the engine warms up, the valve clearances can loosen by over .020".

The contact patch of a locomotive wheel is about the size of a Kennedy half dollar.

A locomotive produces the most traction when the wheels are moving 2% faster than groundspeed.

The average airliner is on the order of 30 years old.

The standard cine frame rate is 24 frames per second. however each frame is show twice.

A large Diesel engine produces around .19 BHP per cubic inches of displacement, as compared to 1 BHP per cubic inch for a car engine, and 3 BHP per cubic inch for a 600cc sport bike engine.  However, a Fairbanks Morse opposed piston Diesel built in 1936 is still 3 times more efficient than the most efficient car engine ever built.

I'll think of some more.  

[Blazinjr]

On the average a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen. Less than 1% is what makes them stink.

A person produces about half a liter of farts a day.

Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men.

Farts are flammable

The word "fart" comes from the Old English "feortan" (meaning "to break wind").

Excess gas in the intestinal is medically termed "flatulence."

Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

"Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia" is the technical term for an ice cream headache.

Tapeworms can grow to 80 feet long.

A dragonfly can fly backwards just as fast as it can forwards.

The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange.

You cannot lose a contact lens in the back of your head.

Eric Clapton's given birth name was Patrick Clapp.

The average speed of a man's orgasm is 28 MPH

It is illegal to lick toads in Arizona.

The largest kidney stone weighed 14 pounds.

Frogs don't drink water. :dunno:

On average, there are about 100 lightning strikes every second worldwide.

Twelve percent of lightning strikes occur at golf courses.

Howie Mandel was the voice of Gizmo in the movie Gremlins.

An average ball point pen can write a line 2 miles (3.2 km) long.

The word typewriter can be typed using only the top row of keys.

The Basenji, an African dog, is the only dog that does not bark.

We are born with 350 bones, and die with 206.

The height of the Eiffel Tower can vary as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.

The Swift is a bird that remains airborne for 2-3 years, during which time it sleeps, drinks, eats, and mates on the wing.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of rocks.

[GeeP]

At 75 kilovolts, all the power of a Dodge Viper could be transmitted by a standard dressmaker's pin.

[JetSwing]

The center of a super massive black hole is the size of a spec of dust. But, that spec of dust weighs 3 million times more than our sun. There was also an expired super nova that weighed one billion pounds per teaspoon.

We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of then ocean.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

You have enough micro-organisms in your mouth to equal a cockroach.

Grenoble, France- A man has been eating 2 pounds of metal and glass a day. Some of the things include: A Cassna airplane, a computer, a TV, a bike, and a coffin.

Austrailia- A man was diagnosed with lead poisoning after he ate three feet of electrical cable a day. He said, "It had a sweet and pleasant taste, especially near the center."

A sneeze leaves your mouth a 100 miles per hour.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. And the first one was built partly by a prison inmate. He later died in it for murder.

Tennessee used to be called Franklin.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

If ribbon worms can't find any food, they will eat themselves.

The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

"Pants" used to be considered a bad word in England.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Reindeer enjoy eating bananas.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.

A blue whales tounge weighs more than an elephant.

Di Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona Lisa's lips.

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Ted Turner owns 5 percent of New Mexico.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the Key of "F".

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

Toto was paid $125 a week during the filming of the Wizard of Oz.

The Sears Tower in Chicago has its own zip code.

[JetSwing]

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself..

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of
Fraiser.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

The only planet without a ring is earth.

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

[Phaedrus]

1. The "I Just Did Something Crazy" (a.k.a. "AJ's nipple thread") is the most popular thread in the Tard Farm with over 250 replies and over 2700 views.

2. seshadri_srinath has made the current records for the most posts, but also has the record for the most posts that no one actually reads.  :lol:

3. Roadstergal has mentioned "search" in atleast 73 posts.

4. There are over 975 posts about Harley's on the GStwin forum

5. Roadstergal and Ed_in_AZ are tied for the number of threads they started that are now in the Tard Farm.

[Alphamazing]

Elbow lickin' good.

[Phaedrus]

I'm in love  :kiss:

[Blazinjr]

Elbow lickin' good.

   I wonder what other part of her body she can lick?

[Jake D]

Another fun fact: I have a friend named Dr. Lung.  He is a foot doctor.

[thirdman]

My wife's foot doctor is Dr. Pain.  (no joke!)

[Jake D]

My little sister's doctor was named Dr. Tickles.

[Badger]

My wife's foot doctor is Dr. Pain.  (no joke!)

Could be worse...he could be a dentist.

[dmanben]

The most popular orthopedic surgeon in northern Delaware is Dr. Axe,

really...

[Sir Smapty]

1. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

2. A man once asked Chuck Norris if his real name is "Charles". Chuck Norris did not respond, he simply stared at him until he exploded.

3. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

4. Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

5. The original theme song to the Transformers was actually "Chuck Norris--more than meets the eye, Chuck Norris--robot in disguise," and starred Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger who defended the earth from drug-dealing Decepticons and could turn into a pick-up. This was far too much awesome for a single show, however, so it was divided.

6. Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of "beard". Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus' obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.

7. Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

8. When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axels, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.

9. Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "booya".

10. Before each filming of Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris is injected with five times the lethal dose of elephant tranquilzer. This is, of course, to limit his strength and mobility, in an attempt to lower the fatality rate of the actors he fights.

11. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

12. When Chuck Norris's wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, "Don't worry about it honey," and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, "Never question Chuck Norris."

13. Chuck Norris took my virginity, and he will sure as hell take yours. If you're thinking to yourself, "That's impossible, I already lost my virginity.", then you are dead wrong.

14. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

15. Chuck Norris once tried to sue Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr., insisting that that actually is "his" way.

16. Chuck Norris's girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then shouted, "HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!" and ripped out her throat.

Holding his girlfriend's bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, "Don't **** with Chuck!" Two years and five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.

[natedawg120]

When i was a kid my Dentists name was Dr. Swisher.

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

When I was young, my dentist's name was Dr. Dunn

[Jake D]

I like the Chuch Norris one, too!  

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

Oh yeah, I remember reading about the horse feet thing on snopes, it's not true..

[vtlion]

Dispelling common trivia misconceptions...

1. Tryptophan content in Turkey is only a few percent higher than that of chicken.  There is not enough to make you feel any more tired after thanksgiving dinner... 3000 calories of starch and fat.. THAT will make you tired.

2. Nuclear reactors cannot blow in a nuclear explosion... they 'melt down'.   A nuclear explosion requires a 50% ratio of U235 isotope... power plant fuel rods use about 2% U235.

3. A Hokie is NOT a castrated turkey.:x   It is a nonsense word written in a cheer writing contest to mark the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Tech.  The turkey mascot is derived from the nickname "gobblers" which finds its origins in the appetites of the mountain boys who made up the original student body at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (later known as Virginia Tech) .

i have more, but I'm sooo tired from the turkey i just had for dinner... uh...never mind