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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:21am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Your body has more foreign/ bacterial cells on and in it right now than cells containing your own DNA The 300 richest people in the world have more combined wealth than the 3 billion poorest people in the world The United States government said that they were testing smoke screens in St. Louis to protect against Soviet aerial attacks in the 1950s. They were actually spraying citizens with radioactive particles to study the effects. There was a woman named Joyce Vincent who died in her apartment in 2003 and wasn’t found by anyone until three years later. The only reason anyone found her is because a police officer smelled the stench, of which her other neighbors had ignored, and finally entered the apartment to find her body. That’s terrifying to think that even if you’re sociable and well liked that you can be forgotten that easy in death. The San Fernando Massacre. It was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico. They kidnapped victims who were then killed and buried in 47 clandestine mass graves. Female kidnapping victims were raped and able-bodied male kidnapping victims were forced to fight to the death with other hostages, similar to a “gladiator fight from ancient Rome,” where they were given knives, hammers, machetes, and clubs to find recruits who were willing to kill for their lives. Capgras syndrome. A certain kind of brain damage severs the connection between your visual cortex and the emotional center of your brain, but the link to your higher cognitive areas are intact. You can see your own mother (or anyone important to you), know for a fact that she looks identical to your mother, but something will feel “off” and you will be convinced she is an impostor. The combined weight of all the ants in the world is heavier than all the humans in the world. Ed Geenes. Killed people and ate them. Used the skin of his victims for various purposes. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Ela59: 2:21pm On Jul 11, 2014 |
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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Ela59: 3:31pm On Jul 11, 2014 |
Nobleval: nah...not yet scientifically proven.but, FIFAlATORIA proven. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by DocAdray(f): 4:20pm On Jul 11, 2014 |
Nobleval: People spend almost half of Hahaha, can you imagine? My own November?! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by oluamid(m): 5:40pm On Jul 11, 2014 |
Nobleval: Amazing Medical Facts Of So anytime I kiss a woman we are actually transferring bacteria from one bacterial continent to another. Dayuuuuuumn! Thats some intercontinental shitzzzz. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:45pm On Jul 11, 2014 |
Sorry no facts tonight...busy creating another thread.. Btw you guys should add yours.... |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Expsbterror(m): 11:51pm On Jul 11, 2014 |
The first woman to own a vibrator was Cleopatra who a tubelike container filled with buzzing bees.. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:38pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day. Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever. Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet . Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes. Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years. No two spider webs are the same. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:39pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:48pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Pekingese dogs were sacred to the emperors of China for more than 2,000 years. They are one of the oldest breeds of dogs in the world. Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal. Pigs, walruses and light- colored horses can be sunburned. Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of rodent. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:49pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Purring is part of every cat's repertoire of social communication, apparently created by the movement of air in spasms through contractions of the diaphragm. Interestingly, purring is sometimes heard in cats who are severely ill or anxious, perhaps as a self- comforting vocalization. But, more typically, it is a sign of contentment, first heard in kittens as they suckle milk from their mother. Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species . Rats can't throw-up. Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:53pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:54pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Snakes are immune to their own poison. Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth. Swans are the only birds with joysticks. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:55pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff - comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:56pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world- wide is the mosquito. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds . The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms). The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:58pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers. The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs." The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:00pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The cat was domesticated over 4,000 years ago. Today's house cats are descended from wildcats in Africa and Europe. The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses. The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws. The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived. The color of the points in Siamese cats is heat related. Cool areas are darker. In fact, Siamese kittens are born white because of the heat inside the mother's uterus before birth. This heat keeps the kittens hair from darkening on the points. The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history (dating back to ancient Egypt.) The name comes from one of its earliest uses - hunting badgers. In German, Dachs means "badger," Hund is "hound." |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:04pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The declawing of a pet cat involves surgery called an onychectomy, in which the entire claw and end bone of each toe of the animal are amputated. The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking. The elephant, as a symbol of the US Republican Party, was originated by cartoonist Thomas Nast and first presented in 1874. The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices." |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:05pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm. The fastest bird is the Spine- tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour. The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph. The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775. The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938. The giant squid is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:06pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:08pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk. The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years. The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:10pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length. The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash. The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:12pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life- span. The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death. The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression. The pigmy shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:35pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people. The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers. The smallest of the recognized dog breeds, the Chihuahua, is also the one that usually lives the longest. Named for the region of Mexico where they were first discovered in the mid-19th century, the Chihuahua can live anywhere between 11-18 years. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks . The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog." The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal. The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime. The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth. The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake. The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny . There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica . There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year. There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Walt Disney's family dog was named Lady. She was a poodle. When a domestic cat goes after mice, about one pounce in three results in a catch. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone. When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source. When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years. You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:42pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
In the developed world, the most common birth control methods are condoms and oral contraceptives. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:51pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
During the Middle Ages in Europe, the Catholic Church deemed any effort to prevent pregnancy as immoral, though women at the time still used a number of birth control methods, such as coitus interruptus and inserting lily root and rue into the vagina. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 4:55pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
While teen pregnancy rates in the U.S. have decreased in recent years, teens in the U.S. still have more unintended pregnancies than teens in any other country. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 5:27pm On Jul 12, 2014 |
Baby facts 1. Scientists in Norway videoed babies who were delivered onto their mothers’ tummies, and found to their astonishment that if left to their own devices, the babies used their limbs in a slow but coordinated way to crawl up and reach the breast where they then latched on and fed unaided. 2. Your baby is born with very sophisticated hearing and can work out where a sound is coming from just 10 minutes after being born. 3. Psychologists in America found that even newborn babies have an elementary grasp of maths and physics. They can tell the difference between one, two, three and more objects, and can also add up and take away. He may not have an abstract concept of numbers, but your baby knows how many apples should remain if, for example, one is taken away, and he will express surprise if it is wrong. 4. Your baby is born to smile. We know this because blind babies also smile, so it’s not just copying. 5. Psychologists have found that babies as young as just 2 days old can recognise their mothers from a tape recording of only one syllable. 6. Your baby is sensitive to temperature and although she can’t throw off clothing or bedding to cool down, she can do other things. When she is cool she will move around more and when she is warm she will lie as if sunbathing, with her arms and legs flung out to the side. You can use these signs to work out if your baby is too hot or too cold. 7. Your baby’s sense of smell is much stronger than yours and he will use it to get to know you in the early weeks. To help him, try to avoid really strong perfumes, deodorants or washing powder and be aware that some household smells may be quite overpowering for him. 8. Parents instinctively use a special low-keyed rhythm of speech to attract and keep their baby’s interest. Psychologists call this ‘motherese’. Your baby will further encourage you to speak in motherese by her intense response when you use it . 9. At birth it takes your baby between five and 10 minutes to get used to something new, but by 3 months it will only take between 30 seconds and two minutes. And at 6 months, your baby will adjust in less than 30 seconds. 10. It is estimated that if a baby continued to grow at the rate he does in his first year, by the time he reached adulthood, he would be as tall as Nelson’s Column in London. 11. Your newborn baby prefers human speech to any other sound, which is why, when she is older and learning to talk, she will try to imitate human sounds rather than inanimate noises such as the telephone ringing. 12. Your newborn baby won’t cry tears for at least three weeks, and sometimes not until he is 4 or 5 months old. Tears contain stress hormones and so crying is a way of helping him calm down. No other animal cries stress tears. 13. Your baby could sense how you were feeling even in the womb! Researchers asked pregnant mums to listen to various types of music through headphones and then measured their babies’ movements with ultrasound. Most babies became more active when the music was on, especially if their mum was listening to music she liked. What is fascinating is that the babies could not hear the music ‘ it was only audible to the mums, so the babies were responding to their mums’ emotional responses to the music. 14. Touch is one of your baby’s most advanced senses at birth and even premature babies born as early as 25 weeks are aware of being touched. Your baby’s sense of touch develops from head to toe, so her mouth is the first region to become sensitive, which is why young babies put everything in their mouths. 15. Your baby can monitor your tone of voice and will react to it. For example, if you smile at him while talking in a frightened voice, or did the reverse ‘ spoke in a happy voice while looking scared, you would probably find that he becomes agitated. 16. To help you fall head-over- heels in love with your newborn baby, her pupils dilate just after she is born. This is a sign that she finds you attractive and helps you find her attractive, too. 17. For the first three months of life your baby can focus on objects about 22cm away ‘ the perfect distance for seeing your face when feeding, and also for focusing on his own body, particularly his hands. 18. Your newborn baby’s life depends on being close to you, not only to see you but so you can keep her warm and safe. Her whole being is designed to make you want to keep her close. Her endearing round forehead, tiny nose, big round eyes and chubby limbs trigger deeply ingrained emotional responses that make you want to help and protect her. Indeed cartoonists exploit these features. The next time you watch a cartoon, see how the artists exaggerate these baby features to increase the ‘ahhh’ factor. 19. Your baby’s cry has been specially designed to make you sit up and take notice. Researchers have discovered that new mums are able to distinguish their own baby’s cries from a ward full of other babies just three days after giving birth. 20. In your baby’s first year, his brain will double to become half its final size. 21. Researchers have discovered that 6-month-old babies can distinguish between individual humans or individual monkeys. But by 9 months, while babies could still tell the difference between human faces, they can’t tell one monkey from another |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:04pm On Jul 16, 2014 |
I took a break...am back how many likes for me? 5 Likes |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by freecocoa(f): 11:17pm On Jul 16, 2014 |
Nobleval: I took a break...am back how many likes for me?A Gazillion likes for you dear, keep the flag flying please. 1 Like |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:33pm On Jul 16, 2014 |
The sense of smell connects to the part of the brain that also controls emotions and memories. This is why smells often evoke strong memories. 1 Like |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:57am On Jul 17, 2014 |
. Queen Elizabeth employs someone to wear her shoes before she does to ensure they are comfortable. *. Researchers found that out of 37 million companies worldwide, only 737 of them hold 80% of the world's wealth. *. We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes. |
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