~Unnecessary facts~

[Freakshow]

WTF Facts:

- 50% of female polar bears also have a penis. (Hate to be the male O.O)

- Turtles can breathe through their butts. (w.t.f)

- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star. (LOl! Why am I not suprised?)

- In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

- The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death. (Does that mean you`re alive?)

- An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.

- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English
dictionary. It refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling particles from volcanoes.

-On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes.

-he soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create a warm, moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal for breeding bacteria. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

-Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.




Post the weirdest, funny, scary or most interesting but unnecessary fact you've ever heard of...

[Infinity]

- 50% of female polar bears also have a penis.

This alone is one of the weirdest "facts" I have ever heard. o_o

[Gohanssj237]

*There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
*The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
*Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
*When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
*A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface
*Polar bears skin is black not white.

[sharakusai]

WTF Facts:

- Turtles can breathe through their butts. (w.t.f)

WTF!?!?!?!

- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star. (LOl! Why am I not suprised?)
why.....why the hell am i not surprised.... i should be shouldn't i?


Post the weirdest, funny, scary or most interesting but unnecessary fact you've ever heard of...

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[Tyki Mikk Kyou]

This is very interesting! Could you also post where you get these facts, if possible? I would like to know more.

[iseeandwitness]

Very wierd, very weird...
I feel an urge to take off my earphones now...

[Rasen]

WTF Facts:

- 50% of female polar bears also have a penis.[IMG]http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p343/claymorefc/faceplam.png[/IMG] (Hate to be the male O.O)

- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star. (LOl! Why am I not suprised?)

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first one funny second one not so much

[xoferi]

WTF Facts:

-Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.

A piece of advice, if you're not very good-looking, don't even think about committing crimes.

[Queenofmuffins]

I think that Charlie Chaplin fact is like one of the most well-known weird facts- I've read it practically everywhere. XD

* In the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats were not disciplined enough to do this.

*In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once the find was made public the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer.


*Think the headphones one was bad? An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

* The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.

*In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.

*In India, a 9-year-old girl was "married" to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum.

*Mardi Gras means "Fat Tuesday."

[sharakusai]

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

Porcupines float in water

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"

The electric chair was invented by a dentist ( sorry for biting yer hand...... no dont please NOOOOO-.......)


A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.

It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.

California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.


In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday.

In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge.

In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.

In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.

In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor.

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!

The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia..


Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum


Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace..... (and we wonder why the gov is always in there.......)


One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water


Rice paper does not have any rice in it

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints