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lind@

lind@

Algeria

Let's share with each other some funny, unbelievable and yet TRUE facts about this world.

                        Let it be Scientific, Social, Cultural, Engineering,.. etc.

                 Ok,i'll start…

 

1.       Butterflies taste with their feet.

2.        The Penguin is the Only bird who can swim but not fly.

3.        1865, February is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.      

4.         The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

5.        Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

6.         Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

7.         Dolphins sleep with one eye open!!

8.         Mr.President of Taiwan,Chen Shui-Bian(陈水扁),said that he is not a Chinese at  all,however,both his father and mother are pure-blood Chinese.

9.        In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.

10.     crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

11.    All polar bears are left-handed.

12.    All the continents have a city named Rome.

13.    The word Christian is mentioned only 3 times in the Bible.

 

                  You are welcome to add some true but strange facts.Wink
 

  

  
 

 

08:59 PM Dec 29 2007 |

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Ŧңέ Ģâறє

Ŧңέ Ģâறє

United Arab Emirates

a7m a7m

yeah yeah, don't break my humbleness Tongue out

10:43 PM Jan 11 2008 |

lind@

lind@

Algeria

lololool

10:48 PM Jan 11 2008 |

whnext

whnext

Australia

wowwww, great topic

Let see what i have

  • Did u know babies have 300 bones, but adults only have 206 bones due to some bones fused together during their growth.

  • Did u know honey is the only food that does not spoil.

  • Did u know hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.

    Did u know Walt Disney was afraid of mice but found them sympathetic ?!?

  • Did u know an octopus has 3 hearts. 

  • Did u know ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.

  • Did u know frogs cannot vomit.

  • Did u know a single mosquito leg alone can support 23 times the mosquito's body weight.

 Did u know that i didn't know these until …....... 5 minutes ago Wink lol

02:47 AM Jan 12 2008 |

Oysha

Uzbekistan

Festival of love celebrated February 15th not 14th  

Valentine's Day originates from the ancient Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on 15 February in honour of the gods Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. During the festival, young men would draw the names of women from a box, and each couple would be paired until next year's celebration. Often they would fall in love and marry.

At around 270AD Rome was facing battles and civil uprising. The men were not keen to join the army. Emperor Claudius II believed that the men did not want to leave their loved ones and summarily cancelled all marriages and engagements. Two priests, Valentine and Marius, disobeyed the decree and secretly performed marriage ceremonies. Valentine was caught on 14 February and dragged to jail. Later in the day he was clubbed to death and beheaded. It is said that, before his execution, Valentine himself had fallen in love with the jailer's daughter. He signed his final note to her, "From your Valentine."

 

04:06 AM Jan 12 2008 |

Oysha

Uzbekistan

The largest flower in the world, the rafflesia arnoldi, weighs 7 kg (15 pounds) and grows only on the Sumatra island of Indonesia. Its petals grow to metre (1,6 feet) long and 2,5 cm (1 inch) thick.

04:08 AM Jan 12 2008 |

Oysha

Uzbekistan

Bird barks instead of sings!

The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn't sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the last 50 years.

There also are dogs that do not bark! The basenji, smallish dog with a silky copper coat, does not bark. Instead, it yodels when it get excited. Wild dogs like the African Wild Dog also do not bark.

04:08 AM Jan 12 2008 |

huazhenpu

huazhenpu

China

    I'm afraid there's a small mistake in your passage, isn't there? In the NO.7, is it Dolphins?

    Anyway, very interesting information! Support NO.8! There's only one China in the world! Only one!!!Yell

05:54 AM Jan 12 2008 |

sondos

sondos

Egypt

thx alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

08:21 AM Jan 12 2008 |

Cool_Lucky

Cool_Lucky

Ukraine

good information whnext
 

12:39 AM Jan 16 2008 |

princeton_girl1010

Israel

thnx for the facts ^^

03:43 PM Jan 17 2008 |