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friendofgunnar
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posted June 08, 2006 07:53 PM |
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Fun Facts
I'll start things off:
The beaver's sexual organs are modestly tucked up inside its body, while a pare of glands in the anal area of both sexes secrete castoreum, the musky oil the beaver uses to grease its coat and mark scent mounds to delineate its territory. Castoreum was a popular medicine in the Middle Ages, said to cure ailments ranging from headaches to impotence; it is high in salicylic acid — the basic ingredient of aspirin — which the beaver ingests by dining on willow bark.
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Please only list a few fun facts at a time. They absorb better that way. <Also> It might be even more fun if the fun facts had some type of relevance to your personal or professional life.
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russ
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posted June 08, 2006 08:07 PM |
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Edited by russ at 20:08, 08 Jun 2006.
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Ok... here is another one then...
Guess which creature has the biggest dick (relative to its body size)?
I'll post the correct answer along with some other interesting facts about that creature after I hear some guesses. (Please, don't look for your guesses on the Internet!)
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friendofgunnar
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posted June 08, 2006 09:00 PM |
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My guess is that it's some type of clam or something with a penis 40% of body size
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posted June 08, 2006 09:02 PM |
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Some interesting life facts, according to Tom Green...
1) My bum is on the man, bum is on the man, it's a lot of fun to put your bum on a man...
2) My bum is on the gum, bum is the gum, I can blow a bubble with my bum bum bum.
3) My bum is on the ship, the battle ship, I hope they don't shoot the cannon in my bum and shoot poo all over the place, poo poo...
4) And that's not very fun, if you fall down and hurt your bum, I like to put my bum on things, it's fun for everyone!
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted June 09, 2006 01:52 PM |
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Those are some interesting life facts, TNT.
And FoG is right it is the clam, or mussel or something like that... I heard it in a movie recently.
oh and Euro Trip:
"Hey Forbes, heres a fun fact: YOU MADE OUT WITH YOUR SISTER!!"
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Iris
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posted June 09, 2006 08:56 PM |
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Dolphins are the only other animal (besides humans) that have sex for pleasure.
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ChEsHiReKaT
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posted June 10, 2006 04:50 AM |
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The grand daddy long legs is the most posionous spider, but are unable to harm humans.
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william
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posted June 10, 2006 05:06 AM |
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Here are some facts which I have read from some books:
1)Female ants do all the work
2)Elephants and humans are the only animals that can stand on their heads
3)A scallop has 35 eyes
4)Most insects are deaf
5)Rats and Horses cannot vomit
6)If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will become another starfish
7)Cats hate lemons
8)Bess are born fully grown
9)The only food that does not spoil is honey
10)Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
11)A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet of gold the size of a tennis court
12)Diamonds are flammable
13)Candles burn better when they are frozen
14)It would take a bullet fired from earth more than twenty years to reach the sun
15)In 1980, there was a traffic jam in France that was 176 km (109 miles) long
16)There are more chickens in the world than people
17)The Greek National Anthem has 158 verses
18)The centre of the Earth is believed to be as hot as the Surface of the Sun
19)It takes one drop of ocean water more than 1000 years to circulate around the world
20)The Earth is slightly hotter during a full moon.
Hope you like those fun facts, I will post some more later on if you would like me to 
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posted June 10, 2006 04:53 PM |
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Funny facts ive seen in books and website...
If you places a tiny amount of alcohol on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
No peice of paper can be folder in half more than 7 times.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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Cabranth
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posted June 10, 2006 11:34 PM |
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Hello.
The DNA in just one of our cells, if straightened out, would measure approximately one meter.
The Wolf and the Chihuahua are the same species.
Abraham Lincoln did not have a deep voice.
Every naturally occuring atom heavier than Lithium was created by fusion in a star.
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LegendMaker
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posted June 11, 2006 12:00 AM |
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13) Candles burn better when they are frozen
Damn right, Cabranth ! Which explains the meaning of one of Edguy's best songs ever : <<Frozen Candle>> of which I'll quote the chorus :
 Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
(It sounds better than it reads, though !  ) Quote:
The Wolf and the Chihuahua are the same species.
That's correct, William ! Both are also related to the Dolphin, whose ancestor actually walked the earth on all fours.
My greetings to the Titans' Fetishists Gentlemen Club, btw !
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william
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posted June 11, 2006 01:15 AM |
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ummmm LM you got them mixed around, I said Candles Burn better when Frozen and Cabranth said the other one.
I will post some more facts later one when I have the time
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Cabranth
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posted June 11, 2006 04:13 AM |
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Hey william,
Can't you see LegendFaker is suffering from Tosseritis?
Fun Fact: Tosseritis is not a choice, it's a disease that affects people in all walks of society.
Symptoms include Dyslexia, impotence, and making jokes that aren't funny.
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posted June 11, 2006 05:59 AM |
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Funny facts ive seen in books and website...
If you places a tiny amount of alcohol on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Sorry to be a party pooper, but that's completely false.
It's just like the misconception that scorpions sting themselves when they are surrounded by fire. Scropions are cold blooded and intense heat causes them to spasm, just like alcohol, and those spasms appear as if they are stinging themselves but they are not.
They can't die by their own poison
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okiesolidarity
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posted June 11, 2006 06:25 AM |
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The grand daddy long legs is the most posionous spider, but are unable to harm humans.
fun fact #1: the daddy long legs is not actually a spider. It is also not poisonous. most spiders aren't, either; they are venomous.
fun fact #2: giant insects can't exist. the muscles of an insect form a thin layer on the inside of the exo-skeleton, and as the volume of the insect increases exponentially, the muscle cannot move the mass.
fun fact #3: it was accepted in scientific circles that the earth wasn't flat long before columbus.
fun fact #4: marcel duchamp actually crafted most of his "readymade" art pieces himself - they were not pre-fabricated.
fun fact #5: bumblebees and hummingbirds defy the laws of physics. By all accounts, they shouldn't be able to hover given their weight compared to their wingspan.
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posted June 11, 2006 06:28 AM |
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Fun Fact #6002: I'm the Juggernaut, snow!
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friendofgunnar
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posted June 11, 2006 05:34 PM |
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It is also not poisonous. most spiders aren't, either; they are venomous.
Are you making the distinction between eating one and getting bitten by one?
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giant insects can't exist. the muscles of an insect form a thin layer on the inside of the exo-skeleton, and as the volume of the insect increases exponentially, the muscle cannot move the mass.
I thought the reason was because insects don't have oxygen delvery systems that can deliver to their inner guts. Thus when the insect gets bigger the air has farther and farther to go.
Although it is my personal belief that if the bugs hadn't been interrupted by the tetrapods back 500 million years ago then they would have evolved better oxygen delivery systems and we would all be typing with feelers right now.
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it was accepted in scientific circles that the earth wasn't flat long before columbus.
Yeah the scientists got it of course, but try explaining that to the medieval peasants and see what kind of reaction you get. No wait, I have a better idea. Come here to America and explain how old the universe is to the 30% that believes it's only 6000 years old.
BTW @ Cabranth I need to tell you that all your clever tosses are completely nullified by the fact that you are using William's avatar. (not in the strict HC legal sense but in the sense that whenever anybody sees a Titan around here the word that automatically springs to mind is "William")
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friendofgunnar
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posted June 11, 2006 05:57 PM |
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Here's the scoop on daddy-long-legs from Wikipedia (abridged)
The Daddy long-legs spider, also called the Granddaddy long-legs spider, cellar spider, vibrating spider, or house spider, is a true spider and not a harvestman. "Daddy long-legs" is a name that is used for several unrelated arthropods with extremely long and thin legs, including these spiders, the harvestmen and tipulid crane flies. The Daddy long-legs spiders comprise the Pholcidae family, in the suborder Araneomorphae.
Daddy Long Legs Spider:
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Crane Fly (which is an insect, not a spider):
Misconceptions
There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicera (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate, but are able to deliver potentially fatal bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration.
In 2004 the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (season 1, episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider’s fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness is about 0.10 mm) the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. [3] This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well. [4]
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okiesolidarity
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posted June 11, 2006 08:25 PM |
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i feel as though my world has been torn apart...I have never called, or heard called, the first picture (of the daddy longlegs) - It is only the second picture, which apparently is only a harvestman, that I have heard called a daddy longlegs. Damn you, wikipedia, for disagreeing with what I had been taught up until now. Given my "false" information, my fact was almost true.
in reference to the poison/venom fact, yes, the distinction lies in eating/being bitten by. Just a personal pet peeve, but when people refer to some snake or spider being the "most poisionous" thing on earth, I usually have to chime in and tell them that there is a fundamental difference between the two - many venomous things are still perfectly edible.
come to america? oh geeze i thought i was already here 
fun fact #6: the planet earth is technically an oblate spheroid, and not a perfect sphere. However, it is closer to being a perfect sphere, proportionately, than the vast majority of globes of the earth are.
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posted June 11, 2006 08:45 PM |
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Fun Fact #6B: If the earth was shrunk to the size where you could put it in your hands it would feel even smoother than a pool ball. (Or so I've heard)
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