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| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 2:21pm On Jul 06, 2014 |
Space Facts List : 41% of moon is not visible from earth at any time ! In space astronauts cant cry properly because of the zero gravity ! Mars appears red because it’s covered in rust ! The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes ! Our solar system was formed more than 4 billion years ago ! The sun looks 1600 times fainter from the pluto than it does from the earth ! Saturn’s rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers ! Some large asteroids even have their own moon ! Halley’s Comet appears about every 76 years ! One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a pea ! The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies ! The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years ! It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth ! Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions ! Even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda ! The largest galaxies contain nearly 400 billion stars ! A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million ! The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth ! The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol! The Temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees celcius during the day and at night reaches upto minus 180 degree ! 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun ! The Earth is 4.56 billion years old , the same age as the Moon and the Sun ! If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away ! Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball ! In the whole solar system our home planet is the only one Not named after a God ! Earth and Mercury are the two most dense planets in the Solar System ! From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the planets. This is because sunlight is reflected off the planet’s water ! Light from the Earth takes just 1.255 seconds to reach the Moon ! Twelve people have walked on the moon ! The visual “tail” of a comet has nothing to do with its direction of travel; rather, solar wind pushes it so that it always points away from the Sun ! Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths ! The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ! Asteroids are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our solar system ! The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the earth only once every 100,000 years on average ! There are over 20 million observable meteors per day ! Only 1 or 2 meteors reach the surface on of earth per day ! The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tons ! There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe ! Europa, Jupiter’s moon is completely covered with ice ! There has only been 1 satellite destroyed by a meteor , it was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993 ! Light reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach earth ! 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:01pm On Jul 06, 2014 |
Animal Facts Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water ! Fishes were there even before the dinosaurs ! Goldfish loose their colour if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water ! Octopus have 3 hearts ! Kangaroos have 3 vaginas ! For every human there are 200 million insects ! Dogs can make approximately 100 different face expressions ! The Head of a jellyfish is called the ‘Bell ‘! The average hen lays 228 eggs a year ! Cats spend 66% of their life asleep ! Sharks are immune to all known diseases ! Hippopotamuses are born under water ! Female lions complete 90% of the hunting in their herd ! Flies always launch backwards for a quick getaway ! Birds need gravity to Swallow ! The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes ! Frogs can swallow with their eyes open ! The stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair ! A lobster’s blood is colourless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue ! Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky ! Bulls can run faster uphill than down ! Until they are about a ear old, baby blue whales gain an incredible weight of 91 Kg each day ! A cats urine glows under a blacklight ! duck eggs are the largest eggs in the world ! If you were to shave a tiger’s fur, its skins would still have stripes ! Elephant’s tusks are the longest teeth in the world ! A camel’s hump doesnt store water at all, it stores fat ! Sharks loose teeth each week ! |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 3:19pm On Jul 06, 2014 |
The sloth is the world’s slowest mammal, so lazy that algae grows on its furry coat ! The world’s smallest cockroach is only 3 mm long ! Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours.They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once),but this is rare! Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day (and your mother thought you slept a lot   ) !The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature ! At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet ! Seahorse can see in 2 different directions at same time ! Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air ! An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts ! A tiger’s tail can be upto one- third of its total body length ! Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth ! Tigers move both legs on the same side of the body simultaneously when they walk ! A duck`s quack doesn`t echo. No one knows why ! Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating ! The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly ! The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year ! Though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they cannot walk ! The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes ! A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours ! A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water ! A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet ! A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside ! An animal epidemic is called an epizooti ! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue ! A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes ! Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten ! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds ! Lobsters and Jellyfish are biologically immortal, they can live forever ! A rat can last longer without water than a camel ! Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and prey ! The hippopotamus kill more humans annually than lions, crocodiles, or snakes ! The cuddly animal koala bear, as it is often called, is not a bear at all,its a marsupial It sleeps for upto 18 hours a day ! Elephants use their trunks to help them stay cool. First,they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. They often follow that with a sprinkling of dust or mud to create a protective sunscreen of dirt on their skin ! All tigers have a similiar markings on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese simbol Wang, meaning king ! Over the course of her life, a female tiger will give birth to approximately equal number of male and female cubs ! A cockroach can survive for about a week without it’s head before dying of starvation ! Bats always turn left when exiting a cave ! A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute ! Reindeer’s hairs are hollow inside like a tube ! Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk ! White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf ! The smallest dog is the Chihuahua ! Keeping cats can increases the chances of mental illness and cause suicidal behaviour in women ! In 2005, a sheep in turkey committed suicide by jumping off a cliff and 1500 sheeps followed ! Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food ! African elephants only have 4 teeth ! Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper ! The mouth of a jellyfish is also its anus ! To take care of their herds, powerful male dolphins occasionally rape weaker males ! Giraffes cant yawn ! A snail can sleep continuously for 3 years ! Hamsters are colour blind ! 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:39am On Jul 07, 2014 |
Plant Facts List : An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils ! The first type of aspirin, pain killer and fever reducer came from a the tree bark of a willow tree ! 85% of plant life is found in the ocean ! Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make people feel happy ! Brazil is named after a tree ! The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply ! Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow an dbaseball bats are made out of wood Hickory tree ! Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings ! Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant ! Apple is 25% air, that is why it floats on water ! Peaches, Pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries, and apples are members of the rose family ! Apple,potatoes and onions have the same taste, to test this eat them with you nose closed ! The tears during cutting an onion are caused by sulfuric acid present in them ! The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall ! The first potatoes were cultivated in Peru about 7,000 years ago ! The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours ! Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.The average strawberry has 200 seeds ! Leaving skin on potatoes while cooking is healthier as all the vitamins are in the skin ! Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food ! Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water ! Bamboo is the fastest- growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day ! A sunflower looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become the seeds ! |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:44am On Jul 07, 2014 |
contd... Cabbage has 91% water content ! Banana is an Arabic word for fingers ! The California redwood (coast redwood and giant sequoia) are the tallest and largest living organism in the world ! Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million years ago ! The word pineapple comes from European explorers who thought the fruit combined the look of a pinecone with flesh like that of an apple ! The Elephant grass found in Africa is named so as it it 4.5 meters high and even elephant s can hide in it ! Eating lots of onions will make you sleepy, as it acts as a sedative ! A cucumber is a fruit and not a vegetable since it has seeds in the centre ! A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas known as fingers ! Vanilla flavoring comes from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia ! The first certified botanical garden was founded by Pople Nicholas III in the Vatican City in 1278 AD ! There are over 300,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time ! Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree ! Carrots were originally purple in colour ! During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania and caused the crash of the Dutch economy ! The baobab tree found in Africa can store 1,000 to 120,000 liters of water in its swollen trunk ! Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old ! Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant ! At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth ! |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:51pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
Interesting Earth Facts The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia ! The equator lies across 14 different countries ! The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific ! The Earth’s shape could be described as an oblate spheroid ! Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years ! Life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime ! The 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located in Asia ! The air at the summit of Mount Everest , 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at the sea level ! The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet ! The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet ! The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide ! The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles ! Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth is the peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m). It is farthest from the center of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth ! The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia ! Each year, about 1 million earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage ! Hawaii is the most geographically isolated land mass in the world ! Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tons of material each day ! Chemical Composition of the Earth mainly consists of 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, and 0.05% Titanium ! An earthquake on December 16 ,1811 caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards ! |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:09pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
FACT: Asking a lesbian “are you sure you don’t like men?” Isn’t going to suddenly make her reevaluate her life and jump into your arms. It’s just going to make her think you’re a dumb ass 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:21pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
1. Male Echidnas have four joysticks 2. Research concludes that "highly cheerful" people tend to die younger. 3. Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium 4. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of school *repeated* 5. If you google the word askew, the page will tilt to the side… Or go “askew” 6. Seahorses will flirt with as many as 25 potential partners in a day and about 37% of their sexual encounters are homosexual. 7. People lie an average of once in every four conversations that last longer than 10 minutes… Work that out! 8. Sprinting for 60 minutes a week burns just as much fat as jogging for 7 hours a week 9. Lunaediesophobia is a fear of Mondays! 10. Three kisses a day can speed up and strengthen your metabolism 11. The average male spends about one year of his life just staring at women 12. Thinking too much can’t apparently make you “fat”… (Research shows the stress of thinking caused overeating with heavy thinkers seeking out more calories) 13. Clinomania is the excessive desire to lay in bed all day! 14. The darker the colour of your alcoholic drink, the more likely it is to give you a hang over 15. A woman’s left boob is usually bigger than the right because it’s closer to the heart |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:24pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
1. Male Echidnas have four joysticks 2. Research concludes that "highly cheerful" people tend to die younger. 3. Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium 4. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of school *repeated* 5. If you google the word askew, the page will tilt to the side… Or go “askew” 6. Seahorses will flirt with as many as 25 potential partners in a day and about 37% of their sexual encounters are homosexual. 7. People lie an average of once in every four conversations that last longer than 10 minutes… Work that out! 8. Sprinting for 60 minutes a week burns just as much fat as jogging for 7 hours a week 9. Lunaediesophobia is a fear of Mondays! 10. Three kisses a day can speed up and strengthen your metabolism 11. The average male spends about one year of his life just staring at women 12. Thinking too much can’t apparently make you “fat”… (Research shows the stress of thinking caused overeating with heavy thinkers seeking out more calories) 13. Clinomania is the excessive desire to lay in bed all day! 14. The darker the colour of your alcoholic drink, the more likely it is to give you a hang over 15. A woman’s left boob is usually bigger than the right because it’s closer to the heart.. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:28pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. . The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this…) . The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% . Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession I n the 1400’s a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb”. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:28pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled ’ Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden’..and thus the word GOLF entered into the English Language. 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:29pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight.” |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:30pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:28am On Jul 08, 2014 |
Toilet paper was invented in China in the late 1300s. It was for emperors only. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 8:40am On Jul 08, 2014 |
Countless excellent phrases, now commonly used, occur first in Shakespeare, including one fell swoop, vanish into thin air, play fast and loose, be in a pickle, foul play, tower of strength, flesh and blood, be cruel to be kind, and with bated breath. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:28pm On Jul 08, 2014 |
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year. 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 bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat. A capon is a castrated rooster. A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light . A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage. A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is believed to be an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive. A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways. A cat's tongue consists of small "hooks," which come in handy when tearing up food. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest. A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time . A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel. A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872. A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. A zebra is white with black stripes. According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died. Adult cats with no health problems are in deep sleep 15 percent of their lives. They are in light sleep 50 percent of the time. All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives . All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930. An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride. An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:35pm On Jul 08, 2014 |
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals. Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months . Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals. Ants don't sleep. Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves. At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide. Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular "First Dog" in history. Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades . Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year. By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks. Camel milk does not curdle. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. Cat scratch disease, a benign but sometimes painful disease of short duration, is caused by a bacillus. Despite its name, the disease can be transmitted by many kinds of scratches besides those of cats. Catfish have 100,000 taste buds. Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine. Cats are the only domestic animals that walk directly on their claws, not on their paws. This method of walking is called "digitigrade." When cats scratch furniture, it isn't an act of malice. They are actually tearing off the ragged edges of the sheaths of their talons to expose the new sharp ones beneath. Cats have a third eyelid called a haw and you will probably only see it when kitty isn't feeling well. Cats have amazing hearing ability. A cat's ear has 30 muscles that control the outer ear (by comparison, human ears only have six muscles). These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so the cat can hear in all directions without moving its head .A cat has four rows of whiskers. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:36pm On Jul 08, 2014 |
Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine. Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:41pm On Jul 08, 2014 |
Cats, not dogs, are the most common pets in America. There are approximately 66 million cats to 58 million dogs, with Parakeets a distant third at 14 million. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living. Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away. Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet. Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily. Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet. D eveloped in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph. Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats. Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop. Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:36am On Jul 10, 2014 |
Nobleval: Odontophobia is the fear of I thought it was Suarezphobia 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by JimloveTM(m): 10:47am On Jul 10, 2014 |
great its back |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Notjustokvideo(m): 10:50am On Jul 10, 2014 |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:53am On Jul 10, 2014 |
Now I've a reason to post more facts! Tanks Obinoscopy. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by NaLaugh: 10:54am On Jul 10, 2014 |
cool |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by hunter21(m): 10:54am On Jul 10, 2014 |
Nobleval: Odontophobia is the fear ofyou're wrong, its suarezophobia 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:55am On Jul 10, 2014 |
himkers:nah...not yet scientifically proven. 1 Like |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:56am On Jul 10, 2014 |
Nice! |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by BJAYADEMOLA(m): 11:00am On Jul 10, 2014 |
Psychologist observe dat d presence of beautiful woman brings out d stupid behaviour of men. |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by MAYOWAAK: 11:07am On Jul 10, 2014 |
SALARIES OF COACHES AT THE 2014 WORLD CUP # COUNTRY COACH SALARY PER YEAR 1 Russia Fabio Capello $11.4m 2 England Roy Hodgson $5.9m 3 Italy Cesare Prandelli $4.4m 4 Brazil (Q) Luiz Felipe Scolari $3.9m 5 Switzerland (Q) Ottmar Hitzfeld $3.7m 6 Germany (Q) Joachim Low $3.6m 7 Spain Vicente Del Bosque $3.3m 8 Netherlands (Q) Louis Van Gaal $2.73m 9 Japan Alberto Zaccheroni $2.72m 10 USA (Q) Juergen Klinsmann $2.6m 11 France (Q) Didier Deschamps $2.16m 12 Portugal Paulo Bento $2.16m 13 Iran Carlos Quieroz $2.09m 14 Chile (Q) Jorge Sampaoli $1.7m 15 Colombia (Q) Jose Pekerman $1.6m 16 Australia Ange Postecoglou $1.29m 17 Uruguay (Q) Oscar Tabarez $1.25m 18 Ivory Coast Sabri Lamouchi $1.03m 19 Algeria (Q) Vahid Halihodzic $1m 20 Belgium (Q) Marc Wilmots $864K 21 Greece (Q) Fernando Santos $864K 22 Argentina (Q) Alejandro Sabella $818K 23 South Korea Hong Myung-Bo $795K 24 Honduras Luis Fernando Suarez $629K 25 Ecuador Renaldo Rueda $566K 26 Costa Rica (Q) Jorge Luis Pinto $440K 27 Cameroon Volker Finke $394K 28 Nigeria (Q) Stephen Keshi $392K 29 Bosnia & Herzegovina Safet Susic $352K 30 Croatia Niko Kovac $271K 31 Ghana James Kwesi Appiah $251K 32 Mexico (Q) Miguel Herrera $209K |
| Re: Thread For Facts.... by MAYOWAAK: 11:08am On Jul 10, 2014 |
In New Zealand there is a hill called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres (1,001 ft) high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The name would be often shortened to Taumata by the locals for ease of conversation. The New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database, maintained by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), records the name as "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu". It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and it is the second-longest place name in the world, according to Wises New Zealand Guide and reported in the New Zealand Herald. The name on the sign that marks the hill is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu", which translates roughly as "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one". At 85 letters, it has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. 1 Like
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