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More people are killed annually by Charlie Chaplin look alike contests than die in a whale's penis.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

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!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

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

The average person laughs 13 times a day!

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.

In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.

In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.

In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.

In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.

The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.


In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle.

This next list of fears are 100% genuine...

Fear of Going Back in Time, Getting Stuck There, Then Contracting a Disease that's Curable Now, but Won't Be Curable Then

Fear of Gravity Reversing itself :lol:

Fear of Being Drowned By Peacocks

Fear of a Little White Dog Coming Out of Your Closet

Fear of Being Shot by a Spider in the Middle of the Night

Fear of Becoming a Parent

Fear of People Breathing

Fear of Getting Hiccups and Never Being Able to Stop

Fear of Being Poked/Touched in the Bellybutton

Fear of Spandex

Fear of Windshield Wipers

Fear of People Standing Behind You

Fear of Being Sucked Down a Toilet


:lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
GT_Fan2005
More people are killed annually by Charlie Chaplin look alike contests than die in a whale's penis.


How many people die in a whale's penis per year? :confused:

In addition:

On a certain day of the year (i forget which) in a certain town (i forget that too but it's on the English Welsh border). It's legal to kill a Welshman with a bow and arrow!

Jack, Evan, i'm waiting!!!


I also heard that in Australia, it is legal to shoot an Aborigioni (sp?) if you are on a moving train! :lol:
 
I think it is legal to shoot a Welshman in the middle of Chester with a cross bow after midnight.

I'll be waiting with a shotgun, Dunc :D
 
Sure you will ;)
 
Adding

Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.

Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.

Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.

Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.

Sophophobia- Fear of learning.

Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words. :lol:

Russophobia- Fear of Russians.

Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians. :dunce:

Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.

Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.

Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.

Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles. :dopey:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. :nervous:

Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. --> why wasn't I born with this

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
 
ExigeExcel
I think it is legal to shoot a Welshman in the middle of Chester with a cross bow after midnight.

I'll be waiting with a shotgun, Dunc :D

In the Cloisters of Shrewbury Cathedral it is still legal to shoot a Welshman in the back with a longbow from thirty paces on the third Sunday of every month.
 
Impreza04
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
:odd:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. :nervous:
:odd: :lol:


Some nice facts and laws GT_Fan2005. I've got a book full of laws like that. :lol:
 
It only shows how clever our American leaders are!

But the shooting the Welsh man....who made that law, and why is it legal? Did the Welsh do something?
 
Here are some stupid California laws.

Sunshine is guaranteed to the masses.

Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

Bathhouses are against the law.

It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.

Women may not drive in a house coat.
 
Solid Lifters
It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
I don't know about whales, but we have a similar law in Oregon. The authorities even set traps with dummy deers, with camera rolling. It's kinda funny, when local news show footages with busted hunters lying or playing dumb after getting caught on tape.
 
DQuaN
I also heard that in Australia, it is legal to shoot an Aborigioni (sp?) if you are on a moving train! :lol:


Ah.... no.

It is illegal to have a shooting weapon on a train in the first place.
 
a6m5
I don't know about whales, but we have a similar law in Oregon. The authorities even set traps with dummy deers, with camera rolling. It's kinda funny, when local news show footages with busted hunters lying or playing dumb after getting caught on tape.
We have those too. They're remote controlled deer. The tail, ears and neck can all be moved by remote control to give it a more alive appearance.
 
But the shooting the Welsh man....who made that law, and why is it legal? Did the Welsh do something?
Throughout history teh Welsh have been seen as rebels aginst teh English and other invaders so basically the laws were there to control any Welsh invasons or uprising.

Is this going to turn into a 'how many ways can you legally kill a Welshman' thread?
 
Humans and Dolphins are the only species who have sex for pleasure :D
 
DQuaN
I also heard that in Australia, it is legal to shoot an Aborigioni (sp?) if you are on a moving train! :lol:
What fun!

GT_Fan2005
Humans and Dolphins are the only species who have sex for pleasure :D
How do they know that....?
 
From the Uni Social newsgroup:

MAGEIRICOPHOBIA IS THE INTENSE FEAR OF HAVING TO COOK

YOU SHARE YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH AT LEAST 9 MILLION OTHER
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

THE LARGEST TOY DISTRIBUTOR IN THE WORLD IS MCDONALD'S

PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR

A GROUP OF RHINOS IS CALLED A CRASH

EVERY CITIZEN OF KENTUCKY IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO TAKE A
BATH AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR

CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS ARE SURPRISINGLY FAST ON
LAND. ALTHOUGH THEY ARE RAPID, THEY ARE NOT AGILE; SO
IF YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF CHASED BY ONE, RUN IN A
ZIGZAG LINE. YOU'LL LOSE HIM OR HER EVERY TIME

THE BIBLE IS THE NUMBER ONE SHOPLIFTED BOOK IN AMERICA

WHEN YOU SNEEZE, ALL BODILY FUNCTIONS STOP--EVEN YOU
HEART

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR WAS INVENTED BY A DENTIST

ON AVERAGE, THERE ARE 333 SQUARES OF TOILET PAPER ON A
ROLL

ON AVERAGE, 100 PEOPLE CHOKE TO DEATH ON BALL-POINT
PENS EVERY YEAR

40,000 AMERICANS ARE INJURED BY TOILETS EACH YEAR

A "JIFFY" IS AN ACTUAL UNIT OF TIME FOR 1/100TH OF A
SECOND

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SNEEZE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN

DUELLING IS LEGAL IN PARAGUAY AS LONG AS BOTH PARTIES
ARE REGISTERED BLOOD DONORS

A GROUP OF FROGS IS CALLED AN ARMY


Seaweed is used to thicken ice-cream
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone
else's cow.

More than ten people a year are killed by vending
machines

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000
followers, in Australia.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your
thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go
instantly.

Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7
minutes!

There are more fatal car accidents in July than any
other month

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is
like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they
save.

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults
laugh on average only 15 times a day.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back,
you can't sink in quicksand

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the
age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach
turns red, too.

About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze
when they are exposed to light.

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

aibohphobia - Fear of palindromes

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Anablephobia - fear of looking up

Coulrophobia - fear of clowns

http://www.saviodsilva.net/ph/11.htm
 
TB
Who volunteered for that test?

Probably somebody from Nanking

(No offense to Chinese people by the way)



"By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back,
you can't sink in quicksand"

Good to know 👍
 
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
 
blue_sharky39
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

I believe the MythBusters proved that duck's quacks did echo...anyone remember that?

Also, I have a feeling that the timescale in the second one should be a bit longer than a day :p
 
A word for being afraid of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth?! Weird...
 
amp88
I believe the MythBusters proved that duck's quacks did echo...anyone remember that?

yeah I remember that, That show is great.
 
i love that show, they proved that if you kneel down and pee on a live rail with a horse sized penis you will be electrocuted!:lol:
 
Sw3d1sh
A word for being afraid of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth?! Weird...

Fear of palindromes is better :D

The chicken gun is another great MythBusters invention
 
Oh, but the best was the cherry picker catapult (even if it was a horrible failure).
 
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