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chantillylace
02-28-2006, 11:31 AM
One of these amazing, but useless facts is false. Do you know which one?

1.The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
2.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
3.Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
4.What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
5."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
6."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
7.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
8.A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
9.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
10.Slugs have 4 noses.
11.There is a city called Rome on every continent.
12.It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
13.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
14.Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
15.The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
16.Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
17.Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
18.The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
19.One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
20.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
21.Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
22.You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
23.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
24.The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
25.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
26.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
27. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
28.Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
29.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
30.The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

FerrariSucks
02-28-2006, 11:38 AM
22.You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Where do they go. I dont remember seeing bones falling out of my body

chantillylace
03-01-2006, 07:47 PM
Nope - not sure where the bones go but apparently that is true! I can account for the few that are lost when your skull fuses together but as for the rest.......who knows!

Shayne
03-01-2006, 09:05 PM
I've heard a few of these and I think one of these is false.

2.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
4.What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
11.There is a city called Rome on every continent.
21.Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
26.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Poison
03-01-2006, 10:57 PM
There is some weird interesting shit there....

calmc
03-01-2006, 11:37 PM
How do people say that things taste the same as other things? For all we know, the taste of chicken to me, could be different to what others taste? :smiley13:

Moses
03-02-2006, 12:29 AM
23.A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Lesbian Giraffes...

chantillylace
03-09-2006, 11:09 AM
It's the one about pet dogs in Iceland! They have loads of strict rules, you cannot even import dogs into Iceland so they can keep their breed pure - no mongrels!