Interesting facts

[Minxy]

Im a bit of a geek when it comes to learning facts..........cant say all interesting........lol Many random.....but we all know someone who sprouts of the most random things and we look at them thinking .......how the hell do they know that........well if your one of them people take a look at this topic. Please add to it 

1) The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
2) Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
3) The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
4) When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
5) The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
6) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
7)  The average person laughs 13 times a day.
8) The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
9) Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
10) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
11) Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

[Vision]

here's my contribution:
Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Until the 1960''s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
There wasn''t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
The word ''set'' has more definitions than any other word in the English language..
There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

[Minxy]

Thankyou Vision..........most interesting  keep adding guys!!!!!! I know you are full of interesting facts 

[dangerous brian]

okay.. i know that the sound we hear inside a shell is NOT blood vessels... but actually just the reverberation of air within it, or ambient noise from outside resonating inside.

a fact that im to believe is true is that back in the day (whenever it may be) where pistol dueling was common place.. participants used to coat there bullets in garlic oil.. this was a kind of insurance policy as garlic can be highly toxic when entering the blood stream if the dosage is high enough.. so if the bullet didnt kill them, the garlic would poison them and hopefully lead to death, sadly though this doesnt actually work.

another fact i have is that the Nazi S.S. military uniforms were manufactured by Hugo Boss (stylish bastards)

the british flag is in fact called the "union flag" not the "union jack",  the term "jack" is only used for naval flags... although the term jack is widely accepted, in all offical documentation of its introduction at the time of the union, King George III states it as being the union flag.

and thats bout all i can be bothered to think of.

[Minxy]

Cheers Brian :D nice to see you in forums!!! get ya arse back in chat more Thanks for the update, all facts can be challenged..........this topic is there to cause debate! Keep posting

[dangerous brian]

All centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, e.g. 15 or 17 pairs of legs (30 or 34 legs) but never 16 pairs (32 legs)

[Devil]

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.

If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12 000 feet.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.

every little helps.

[dangerous brian]

More recent research by the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth in 2003, demonstrated that goldfish have a memory-span of at least three months and can distinguish between different shapes, colours and sounds.

 

[Devil]

Even more recent research by the University of Me in 2010, showed that previous reseach by Plymouth in 2003 was incorrect.