extremly odd facts

[Zoidberg]

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

If you have hiccups that just won't go away, massage your ear lobes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Europe is the only continent without a desert.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower. (not me)

Only 1/3 of all "Gilligan's Island" episodes are about getting off the island.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

(for gimpy) You can buy a 10 acre plot of land on the Moon.

[Zoidberg]

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun. (once again a say Barbies ar e evil)

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

[Zoidberg]

Pacific Grove, California- It causes a misdemeanor if you kill or threaten a butterfly

Ventura County, California- Cats or dogs can't have sex without a permit.

Sarasota, Florida- It is illegal to wear swimwear while singing a public place.

Chicago, Illinois- A hat pin is considered a concealed weapon.

Michigan- It is illegal for a woman to cut her hair without her husband's consent.

Minnesota- It is illegal to mock skunks.

Brainerd, Minnesota- Every man must grow a beard

Ohio- It is illegal to sell beer while wearing a Santa Claus suit, even if you are a dog.

Seattle, Washington- It is illegal to sell lollipops. Suckers are fine.

Virginia- All bathtubs must be outside, not in the house.

Toronto, Canada- It is illegal to ride a streetcar on Sunday after eating garlic.

Cleveland, Ohio- It is illegal to capture mice without a hunting license.

Arizona- It is illegal to hunt camels.

Kentucky- It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

Louisana- It is illegal to rob a bank, and then shoot the teller with a water pistol.

Indiana- It is prohibited to bathe in the winter.

Kentucky- You must take a bath at least once a year.

Alaska- It is illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle.

Atlanta, Georgia- is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

Idaho- It is forbidden by law for one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

New York State- It is illegal to shoot a rabbit from a trolley car.

Somalia, Africa- It is illegal to carry old gum on the tip of you nose.

New Jersey- It is illegal to slurp soup.

Arkansas- A man is allowed to beat his wife, but no more than once a month.

Chicago, Illinois- It is illegal for a woman that weighs 200 pounds to ride horses in shorts.

Miami, Florida- It is illegal for a man to wear a strapless gown.

Mesquite, Texas- It is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.

Connecticut- It is illegal to walk across the street on your hands.

Avignon, France- It is illegal for a flying saucer to land in the city.

North Carolina- You cannot sell cotton lint or cotton seed at night.

New York- It is illegal to do anything against the law.

Hartford, Connecticut- It is illegal to plant a tree in the street.

Christiansburg, Virginia- It is illegal to spit.

Provincetown, Massachusetts- it's illegal to sell suntan oil until after noon on Sunday.

San Fransisco- It is illegal to beat a rug in front of you house.

[Zoidberg]

Jerusalem- After a man suffered through the tough death of his seventy-year-old mother, he kept her body cold in a refrigerator until science could bring her back to life. "It was hard for me, but it was her wish." claimed the man

Charlottesville, Virginia- Federal Agents searched an man's house because they believed he possessed illegal drugs. They searched everywhere, and were about to assume that he moved, when they heard a noise coming from the frige. They looked inside and there was the man, calmly drinking a soda.

Sandusky, Ohio- A man was charged with negligent assult after he shot his wife's hat thinking it was a rat. The hat was on his wife's head at the time. The same man had previously shot himself in the foot while trying to shoot a rat.

Kansas- A man was charged with holding up a shoe store. He stole about 70$ in shoes. At his trial the man showed up wearing the boots he stole, with the tags still on. He was found guilty and the shoes were returned to the store.

Tennessee- An inmate escaped from jail and led police on a long chase sometimes reaching 150 mph. When he was caught he stated that he intended to turn himself in all along. He was driving fast because he wanted to get far enough ahead from the police to make it clear he was going to stop.

Bangkok, Thailand- After stealing a woman's purse, a man ran into a building that he thought was a Buddhist Temple. He figured that he couldn't be arrested in there. Unfortunately for him the building was a police station. He was arrested.

Redondo Beach, California- Police noticed a man driving his car, and they assumed he was drunk. Not becasue he was meandering, but because he had the top of a traffic light pole (including the lights) across the hood of his car. When questioned he said, "I thought the lights came with the car."

Woburn, Massachusetts- A baptist church was caught luring children in with pizza, and then baptizing them without parental consent.

Sanger, Texas- Four teenagers were arrested after breaking into a funeral home. They had planned to find embalming fluid, dip their cigarettes in it, and smoke it. Since they could find no fluid, they substituted a finger from the corpse for their cigarettes (and smoked it).

Pikeville, Kentucky- A bank robber was easily caught by surveillance cameras. He thought rubbing citric acid on his face would blur the picture, as you can obviously tell, it didn't work.

Ogden, Utah- A man wearing a clown costume went to a mechanic's trailer. The clown asked for a woman named Kathy. After the mechanic denied knowing a person named Kathy, the clown accused him of having an affair with her, and hit him over the head with a lamp. The clown was never found

Wandsworth, England- Karl Watkin was sentenced to eighteen months in prison after trying to have sex with a sidewalk. Three years later he was sentenced to six years for stimulating sexual intercourse with garbage bags. Later that year he commited suicide in his cell.

Appleton, Wisconsin- Darrell Voeks stole $100,000 worth of pigs to help pay for breast implants for his favorite stripper at a club. He got ten years in prison.

Key West, Florida- One restaurant owner killed another during a argument over how to put silverware into a dishwasher correctly.

Grande Ronde, Oregon- Sixty-seven-year-old Arthur Mooney died of a heart attack in the Spirit Mountain Casino. While his body lay right there on the floor for an hour, the other customers continued to play the slot machines. They pulled his body away the next day.

Scarborough, England- A totaled ford was found at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff in 1996. No sign of the driver was found, just a pile of human feces on the drivers seat.

Stockholm, Sweden- Customs officers noticed a woman that wouldn't stop scratching her chest. They were kind, and didn't mention anything, at first, but she never stopped. They searched her and found 75 live snakes that she was trying to smuggle.

Mount Shasta, California- Joy Glassman was a loving mother. She always wanted her sons to succeed in life. Then she went to far. Her sons grew up to be firemen, and joy intentionally set fires to help their careers. After five fires in one month she was arrested for arson.

[Zoidberg]

Palmero, Sicily- Roof jumping rats are common in these parts. But if you plan to travel here soon, bring an umbrella. The rats are getting too fat to jump, and land on the streets below.

Scientists believe that a meat eating plant lives underground with no direct sunlight.

Monkeys fling feces at eachother when agitated.

Italy- A dolphin helped a drowning 14-year old boy. The dolphin pushed the boy to the nearest boat and swam away. Now the dolphin is known as Flippo.

Egypt- A man named Bahgat Mostafa Said died in his apartment with no cause. 18 cats (that were not his) came and surrounded his body. A week later, after a bad smell had disturbed neighbors, police investigated the apartment. They found the body and tried to move it, but the cats attacked. It took two hours to remove the cats and move the body.

Norfolk, England- On August 8, 2000 five inches of fish fell from the sky. The fish were indentified as Sprats, and their reason for falling is unknown. A similar event happened in Ethiopia.

Hook-tip moth caterpillars defend their territories by drumming out warning.

Ptarmigans help their chicks go out into the world by teaching them which plants are more nutritious.

Yawns are a way of communication. They don't signal that you are tired, but rather you want to do something different now.

Finches practice songs in their sleep.

Primates have learned to make juice from apples.

Crows and primates have figured out to use a sharp stick to catch insects in hard-to-reach places.

Killer Whales capture fish by slapping them.

Baboons and Chimps dig for clean water when the surface water is polluted. Chimps even use sticks for digging tools.

Chimps live in groups that each have their own culture.

Ravens can learn to open a box to get a treat, and then teach others to do the same.

(for Alex and Mr. shrimpy)A shrimps heart is in its head.

Cockroaches can find their way in a dark room by dragging one antenna against the wall.

Ants have the characteristic of farming other (larger) bugs. Ex: Grubs. Much like humans and cows.

Spiders eat other spiders.

A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A cats urine glows when placed under a blacklight.

An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.

Penguins can jump 6 feet high.

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head. Amazingly, it only dies of starvation.

Cows produce more milk while listening to music.

Mosquitoes are attratced to people who have just eaten bananas.

A pig can grow to weigh a ton.

A scared rabbit can jump 15-20 feet in one bound.

Elephants can't jump.

Bats always leave a cave to the left.

A giraffe can lick its ears with its long tounge.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

A male moth can smell a female from 7 miles away.

A sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in ONE MINUTE.

A blind chameleon can still change colors to match its environment.

The heart of a blue whale only beats nine times a minute.

A weddell seal can hold its breath for 7 hours.

A cow produces 200 times more gas than a human (per day).

A dragonfly's lifespan is ONE DAY.

The ocean sunfish can lay 5,000,000 eggs at one time.

Slugs have four noses.

Sharks can sense a drop of blood in 25 gallons of water.

Deer urine can turn blue when they become dehydrated in the winter.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils

Goldfish have a memory of three seconds

In England all Swans and Sturgeons belong to the Queen

Cats can hear in ultrasound

Giraffe's do not have vocal cords

[Zoidberg]

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 is also an expired super nova that weighs one billion pounds per teaspoon.

(for gimpy also) we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of then ocean

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. (holy crap)

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." (wtf:?)

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.

(for alex) "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

Reindeer enjoy eating bananas.

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

A blue whales tounge weighs more than an elephant.

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

Walt Disney was afraid of mice. (lol)

Ted Turner owns 5 percent of New Mexico. (WOW)

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. (lucky dog)

The Sears Tower in Chicago has its own zip code.

[MightySage]

the disney ones not true.i read that he actually kept mice as pets,and thats how he thought up micky.

[Zoidberg]

o well ya get some right and ya dont

[Bengl Von Shadowstein]

ZOIDBERG! YOUR A WIZARD!

[Zoidberg]

mMe, No I’m usually a sorcerer, ranger, druid, or a rogue when I play dungeons and dragons

[Bengl Von Shadowstein]

Look at your Rank!

[Zoidberg]

HOLY CRAP I DID IT

[Bengl Von Shadowstein]

YOU HAVE SARPASSED ALL BUT ALEX! BUT GOT THEIR 10 TIMES FASTER THAN HE DID! YOU ARE TRUELY SUPIRIOR TO US ALL!!!!! here, have a pork chop!

[Zoidberg]

YAY!!! *starts making pork chop smoothies*

[MightySage]

lol,all bow down to zoidberg!!! ;D ;D