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110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 8:48am On Jul 04, 2017
111. Bullying, child abuse, and stress causes children to age faster at a cellular level and leads to physical and mental health problems even decades later, including an earlier death.

112. A zebra horse hybrid is called a ‘Zorse’.

Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 8:52am On Jul 04, 2017
113. The ‘Devil’s Bridge’ is a 19th-century structure in kromlau, Germany, that was designed to make a perfect circle with its reflection in the water below.

114. After a man ate ghost pepper in a contest, not even a burger and six glasses of water could stop the burning. He ended up in the hospital with a 2.5 cm hole in his esophagus-not from the pepper, but from the extreme vomiting it caused. 23 days later, he was discharged with a gastric tube that delivers food to his stomach.

115. The word “thug” comes from 1350s India from the Hindi word “thag,” which means “deceiver” or “swindler.”

116. Metathesiophobia is the fear of things and or people changing.

117. The sketch that Jack drew of Rose wearing the famous necklace in the blockbuster movie “Titanic” was really drawn by director James Cameron. The hands that we see drawing the sketch are really Cameron’s. Cameron was also responsible for all other sketches that were in Jack’s sketchbook.

118. Robert Downey Jr. thanked Burger King for getting him off drugs. In 2003, with a car full of drugs he had a burger that was so disgusting it made him rethink his life, and dump the drugs in the ocean.

119. A televangelist called Oral Roberts once told his viewers that if he didn’t receive 8 million dollars in 3 months God would kill him, and he received over 9 million dollars in that period of time.

120. The largest natural bridge on earth was unknown to the world, until it was observed on Google maps.

Below 113. The ‘Devil’s Bridge’ is a 19th-century structure in kromlau, Germany, that was designed to make a perfect circle with its reflection in the water below.

114. After a man ate ghost pepper in a contest, not even a burger and six glasses of water could stop the burning. He ended up in the hospital with a 2.5 cm hole in his esophagus-not from the pepper, but from the extreme vomiting it caused. 23 days later, he was discharged with a gastric tube that delivers food to his stomach.

115. The word “thug” comes from 1350s India from the Hindi word “thag,” which means “deceiver” or “swindler.”

116. Metathesiophobia is the fear of things and or people changing.

117. The sketch that Jack drew of Rose wearing the famous necklace in the blockbuster movie “Titanic” was really drawn by director James Cameron. The hands that we see drawing the sketch are really Cameron’s. Cameron was also responsible for all other sketches that were in Jack’s sketchbook.

118. Robert Downey Jr. thanked Burger King for getting him off drugs. In 2003, with a car full of drugs he had a burger that was so disgusting it made him rethink his life, and dump the drugs in the ocean.

119. A televangelist called Oral Roberts once told his viewers that if he didn’t receive 8 million dollars in 3 months God would kill him, and he received over 9 million dollars in that period of time.

120. The largest natural bridge on earth was unknown to the world, until it was observed on Google maps.

Below is a picture of a "the devil's bridge."

Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 9:24am On Jul 04, 2017
121. Negaholics are people who become addicted to self-doubt and negativity. They find something bad in everything and are hardly satisfied.

122. When Don Karkos fought in WWII, he was hit with shrapnel and blinded in his right eye. While working in a barn 64 years later, a horse head-butted him in the same spot, threw him against the wall, and his vision was suddenly restored.

123. The earth’s oceans are filled with massive, hollow, worm-like entities called pyrosome; that can grow as big as a sperm whale.

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Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by casspersteve: 10:38am On Jul 04, 2017
ftc....following u like mad
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by galadima77(m): 4:39pm On Jul 04, 2017
The word “thug” comes from 1350s India from the Hindi word “thag,” which means “deceiver” or “swindler.”

You gotta be kidding me on this
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by GLOBALINF: 9:28pm On Jul 04, 2017
Very educative
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by Nobody: 9:57pm On Jul 04, 2017
Nyc.. Ehe ehe.. Av u finished
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by wins18(m): 11:19pm On Jul 04, 2017
keep it cu'ming op
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by sirfee(m): 6:45am On Jul 05, 2017
slevin1:
121. Negaholics are people who become addicted to self-doubt and negativity. They find something bad in everything and are hardly satisfied.

122. When Don Karkos fought in WWII, he was hit with shrapnel and blinded in his right eye. While working in a barn 64 years later, a horse head-butted him in the same spot, threw him against the wall, and his vision was suddenly restored.

123. The earth’s oceans are filled with massive, hollow, worm-like entities called pyrosome; that can grow as big as a sperm whale.
Continue....



Good job op
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 2:16pm On Jul 05, 2017
sirfee:
Continue....




Good job op


Thanks.

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Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 2:20pm On Jul 05, 2017
124. In 1903, there was confusion in Leavensworth Prison where William West and William West were sent to. These two are very identical yet unrelated. It took the staff a while to understand that they had two identical different prisoners with the exact same name at the exact same time. They are part of the reason why fingerprints are now used as identification.

125. The first deodorant for men was launched in 1935 (decades after the introduction of deodorants fro women) because, at the beginning of the 20th century, body odour was not considered a problem for men; it was part of being masculine.

Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 2:25pm On Jul 05, 2017
126. In October 2016, thousands of giant balls showed up along Siberian beach. The extremely rare phenomenon is the result of strong winds pushing and pulling at coastal frost and ice, which accumulates in layers and forms into large snowballs.

127. The record for surviving the longest without food or liquids is held by someone who was forgotten by three policemen in a holding cell for 18 days.

128. The Khasis are a tribe in India that grow their own bridges. For generations they have passed down the art of tree-root manipulation, forming centuries-old ‘living bridges’ out of the powerful roots of Ficus elastic trees.

129. In 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving the boy, the man dived back in, seized the shark and wrestled in to shore where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital and successfully sewn back on.

130. The Night Witches were a Russian all-female bomber unit flying biplanes against the Germans in WW2. While two pilots distracted the searchlights, anthird would cut her engines and glide in go deliver her bombs; 23,000 missions were flown.

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Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by whosayswot100(m): 2:47pm On Jul 05, 2017
Great piece
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 2:56pm On Jul 07, 2017
131. Soteriophobia is a psychological condition which causes a person to refuse depending on other for fear of being disappointed.

132. The structure of the brain changes every time you learn something new.

133. Giving up alcohol for just a month can improve liver function, decrease blood pressure, and reduce the risk of liver disease and diabetes.

134. Girls learn to talk and read quicker than boys and use more complex vocabulary. (I no argue. No wonder dem dey nag. Imagine a girl nagging with complex vocabulary, I don dey cry for the unknown boyfriend already. Chai!)

135. There is a condition called foot orgasm syndrome where the suffere experiences spontaneous orgasms originating from their feet. (E be like say I go begin dey match people leg make I know who go orgasm).

136. In 2003, two men stole an empty Boeing 727 from the Luanada International Airport and flew it into the sunset. They have never been found.

137. Abraham Lincoln created the secret service just hours before he was assassinated.

138. Scientists spent weeks training rhesus monkeys to recognize themselves in a mirror. Once they understood their own reflections, they immediately started checking out their asses (these chics sef. Typical of them sha).

139. Before he became a success, Walt Disney was so poor he had to eat dog food to survive.

140. On the Indonesian island Tana Toraja, if a baby dies before he starts teething, the family cuts a hole in a tree and places the dead child inside. The tree grows around the baby and absorbs it.
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 2:15pm On Jul 09, 2017
141. Before he passed away in 2009, Kim Peek could memorize an entire book in an hour. He read two pages at a time, scanning one with each eye. He remembered the contents of 12,000 books and was the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s characterbin the film Rain Man. When they met, Duffman said “I may be the star, but you are the heavens.”

142. The actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, stopped learning his lines after learning his voice would be dubbed over. Instead, he would improvise lines, sometimes speaking complete gibberish, forcing his co-stars to respond as if he had said the correct line. (work made easy. Lol)

143. Pentheraphobia is the fear of one’s mother-in-law.

144. The higher your IQ level the easier it is to resist peer pressure. Intelligent people are less concerned with the approval of others.

145. One cigarette contains enough toxic ingredients to kill a person if those ingredients were directly injected into the bloodstream.

146. To get night vision, keep one eye closed in the well lit area and open it in darkness; that eye will be able to see well in the dark. This is why pirates wore eye patches.

147. According to one survey, men spend nearly half their life simply staring at women. (niggaz we’re cursed. Dammit!)

148. A woman in China got an iPhone 7 from each of her twenty rich boyfriends, then she sold them all and bought a house. (Chinese and brains, naija and show off).

149. All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye’s lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.

150. Every unborn baby grows a moustache in the womb, which then spreads to cover the entire body. The baby then eats this fine hair, called lanugo, and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement, which is a substance called Meconium.
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 1:47pm On Jul 12, 2017
151. In South Korea, airliner traffic is modified to not disturb students writing their college entrance exam. They also delay people going to work that day so that there’s no traffic jams as students are en route to take their exam.

152. An eccedentesiast is a person who hides their pain behind a smile.

153. People who live in Hawaii have a higher life expectancy than the rest of U.S.

154. In South Korea, repeat child sex offenders are chemically castrated.

155. American airlines used to have a piano lounge in the back of their 747’s in the 1970’s, but the electric piano was always breaking because drunk passenders kept spilling their cocktails on the keys.

156. New Jersey lifeguards can retire when they’re 45 years old with a lifelong pension of up to $61,000 per year. And when they die, the payments continue on to their descendants.

157. Apophasis is when someone pretends they don’t want to talk about something, even though they brought it up. (Every woman is suffering this condition).

158. Su Filindeu (The Threads of God) is the rarest, most difficult to make pasta in the world and for 300 years, only three women of a single Sardinian family knows how to make it.

159. A man with a chronic ear infection cured himself with his own earwax. He was given a number of drugs by doctors, but nothing worked. In desperation, he took earwax from his good ear and placed it in his bad. Two days later, he was fine.

160. If you feel strongly that someone is watching you, they probably are. Your brain has a primal “gaze detection” system that determines whether someone is staring directly at you, which gives you a ‘feeling of being watched.’
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 11:45am On Jul 30, 2017
1. Mageirocophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

2. Percussive maintenance is the technical term for hitting something until it works.

3. The first call ever made on a cell phone, was from an engineer named Cooper calling his rival engineer to brag about his accomplishment.

4. People who feel an urge to correct other people’s grammar are actually suffering from a form of OCD, Grammar Pedantry Syndrome.

5. If you are feeling lonely in Japan, you can rent a Japanese middle-aged man. In 2009, a teenager impersoanting a cop went to Chicago
Police Department, worked a full shift, drove a squad car, and arrested someone. (maybe he’s the inspiration behind the movie ‘Let’s Be
Cops’)

6. The longest ever recorded sniper kill was shot from 2,475 meters at 1.54 miles away by a British soldier Craig Harrison. The bullet took over 6
seconds to reach it’s target and fell about 400 feet.

7. Bomb and drug sniffing drugs will eventually develop psychological problems if they never find any, and must occassionally be taken on
dummy missions to satisfy their ‘prey-drive’.
Re: 110 Weird Facts You Didn't Know Continued - Infinitum by slevin1(m): 10:25am On Jul 31, 2017
168. Broken Heart Syndrome is a real medical condition brought on by tragedy or shock, and it feels like a heart attack. A surge of stress hormones causes a temporary disruption in your heart’s normal pumping function, gving you chest pain and shortness of breath.

169. William Wrigley Jr. sold soaps in 1891, offering baking powder as incentives to buyers. The baking powder proved to be more popular, so he started selling it, offering gum (chewing) as incentive. But the gum proved to be even more popular, so he started selling them.In 1893, Juicy Fruit debuted.

170. Anuptaphobia is the fear of being single forever.

171. A Vietnam war American sniper volunteered to crawl for 3 days across 2000m of open field containing an enemy headquaters, took a single shot that killed an NVA General and then crawled back out without being spotted. (this one pass Rambo o)

172. Shopping carts handles have more saliva, bacteria and fecal matter than most public bathrooms.

173. The smell of newborn babies excites women in the same way an addict craving for drugs enjoys his fix, according to scientists. (if I wan chop them now, I go make a perfume that smells like newborn babies and name it ‘Excitement’)

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