Unusual Facts Thread

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:30 am

The number of calories in Girl Scout cookies sold each year totals about 210,162,000,000

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:17 am

The only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end is your tongue.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:32 am

Plants grow larger and more quickly when watered with warm water than those watered with cold water.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:32 am

There was a traffic jam in Beijing that lasted over nine days

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 4:58 am

Combined, American children spend 6.3 billion hours coloring with crayons a year.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:13 am

The color green use to be considered unlucky in Ireland since it was associated with fairies who stole children and brides.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:05 am

In the average lifetime,a person will walk the equivalent of five times around the equator.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:25 am

Dark-rosted coffee has less caffeine than medium roast. Roasting coffee beans burns off caffeine.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:26 am

ice cream was invented in ancient China in 2000 B.C.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 8:15 am

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 8:22 am

Michigan Stadium, The Big House, has the greatest seating capacity in the U.S. at 109,901.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:14 am

There's no mercury on the planet Mercury. Most of it is solid iron.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:16 pm

Astronauts get sick so often in space that their toilets have a special setting for vomit.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:55 pm

According to Western University, 88% of people use Facebook to keep tabs on exes, and 1/3 post pics to make the ex jealous.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:17 am

Before people drank coffee, they had been chewing on its beans for four hundred years.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:50 am

Ice on the back of the neck can sometimes stop r slow a nosebleed.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:17 am

The most germ-laden place on your toilet isn't the seat or even the bowl: it's the handle.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:43 am

The U.S.-Canada border is the longest border in the world without a military defense.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:45 am

Captain Kirk never said, "Beam me up Scotty" in any Star Trek Episode.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 5:04 pm

Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous until the 1800s.

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