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learn something new!

Mike182

Flaming Queer
i honestly believe it is important that people try to learn something new every day, so if your stuck for something new ot learn, try some of these :D

>1 Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
>mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
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>2 Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
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>3 The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
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>4 No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
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>5 Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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>6 The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
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>7 Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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>8 Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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>9 The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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>10 Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
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>11 The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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>12 Pearls melt in vinegar.
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>13 The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro,Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
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>14 It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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>15 A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
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>16 Turtles can breathe through their arse.
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>17 On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
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>18 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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>19 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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>20 It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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>21 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.
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>22 A snail can sleep for three years.
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>23 No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
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>24 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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>25 All polar bears are left handed.
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>26 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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>27 Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
 

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
I Knew 10 and 14!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


and you are right about both the points about elbows !:mad:

That's clever!;)
 

Terrywoodenpic

Oldest Heretic
20 It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
A young girl demonstrated that she could do this on TV last week.

Some of the others are old wives tales to
But it's a nice list

Terry
__________________________-
Amen! Truly I say to you: Gather in my name. I am with you.
 

Pah

Uber all member
Jensa said:
Actually, duck quacks do echo. :D Yay Mythbusters!
Yep - saw the show!
a recent episode of a TV show called Myth-Busters which determined that a duck's quack does echo, but that in most circumstances the echo sounds so much like the initial quack that it's almost indistinguishable from the original.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=932511
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
1. In test boxes you can see mosquitos approach, attempt to light, but back off again when their feet touch a DEET treated forearm. Perhaps #1 applies to a particular chemical, rather than all repellants in general.

3. Not in any hospital I've ever worked in.

7. Isn't this a matter of perspective?

8. Explain....

10. Speak for your own house, CP!

12. Any calcium salt will dissolve in any acid.

16. Do you mean some aquatic turtles can absorb small quantities of oxygen through skin and mucous membranes?

18. I'm still waiting to see a snail jump....

22. How do they know it's sleeping? Did someone do an EEG tracing?

25. How was this determined?
 

Mike182

Flaming Queer
ok, the evidence for some of them is a little ...... sketchy in places :rolleyes:

Seyorni said:
1. In test boxes you can see mosquitos approach, attempt to light, but back off again when their feet touch a DEET treated forearm. Perhaps #1 applies to a particular chemical, rather than all repellants in general.
darn, nothign gets past you does it
3. Not in any hospital I've ever worked in.
did you try it? .... is that a no? well then, how do you know?
7. Isn't this a matter of perspective?
maybe, maybe not, but as they say, its all relative ;)
8. Explain....
a lot of people think that tee or coffee are good to drink in the morning because the cafine content wakes up the brain and the mind, but apples are a lot better than at doing this
10. Speak for your own house, CP!
well, if people like you didn't discrimintate against houses for their lack of verbal communication, i wouldn't need to speak for my house would i!
12. Any calcium salt will dissolve in any acid.
so that makes the statement ........ true?
16. Do you mean some aquatic turtles can absorb small quantities of oxygen through skin and mucous membranes?
yer, or, something like that .................
18. I'm still waiting to see a snail jump....
then you missed it, cus if you look too hard you'l miss it .... darn those damn fast buggers!
22. How do they know it's sleeping? Did someone do an EEG tracing?
because of its lack of jumping, duh!
25. How was this determined?
we watched them filling in their tax declaration forms!


LOL. sorry, i just got a mental image of a polarbear filling in a tax form:
"erm, lets see, one ice berg, approximatley 200 square metres, three trout ........ sorry, make that two trout, one spouse, living together, unemplyed, commuting with neighbours"

C_P
 

Fluffy

A fool
Number 4 interests me the most. The number of folds necessary to create a piece of paper that stretches from the floor to the moon only lies in the thousands.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Okay when it says folds, it means fold in half. Also some people can manage 8 under their own strength but the normal amount is 7
A sheet of newspaper is very easy to fold 8 times. The 9th takes a bit of work. I can fold a normal sized piece of paper 8 times, but it doesn't look like much of a fold.
 
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