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Seniors. Did you know that more people?

each year are bitten by New Yorkers than are by sharks?

And that if your nerve endings were joined end to end, they would stretch to the moon and back 8 times?

And that if all the dead of World War I were lined in single file and marched past you at a standard military quick march (120 paces per minute), the line would take 2 years to pass by.

Makes you think, doesn't it?

What is the weirdest fact you know folks?

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will

    instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who

    discovered this??)

    The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which

    stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

    If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    My daughter is 3rd year nursing student and she is used to being with cadavers, but she had her first gun shot wound in observing in the operating room and said it still amazes her the length of intestines and how the human body can still fit all this inside the human package.

    I still marvel how jewelry put nicely in a box is all knotted up with each other.

    Sand on a beach, how many grains as stars in the sky, so I have heard, somebody count.?

    Cats have no collar bone

    EDIT: It is against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I asked a ? similar to this the other day.

    I sure wish I got the good Answers you are getting!

    Anyway, my ? centered around the fact that the Speak & Spell would not say the word 'god' when I typed it in in the keyboard. It would say something like 'Ha, ha. You're silly' if I typed in that word. I had done this when I was a kid.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    My favorite:

    In 1676, in Europe, Ole Romer and several of his fellow scientists figured out the speed of light (approximately) at a time when even most educated people assumed it traveled instantaneously.

    While meanwhile, in America, Christian officials were executing "witches" (sometmes "suspicious" men, but usually "contentious" women), who were convicted on the basis of "spectral" and "intangible" evidence, including the revelations of children who had been fed a special "truth" cake made with urine.

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  • Power
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    The present President of the USA is a Muslim who sat in a Christian church for 20 years. There are lots of those kinds of facts for those who are believers.

    Both Presidential candidates for the President of the USA in 2012 came from polygamist families on their father side. I don't know about Romney's mother's side.

  • 9 years ago

    You cannot urinate and sneeze without interrupting" the flow" You cannot sneeze without closing your eyes even if just for a split second.

    You can't roller skate in a Buffalo herd.

    You can never trust a fart.

  • Pat
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I am loathe to admit that I am unable to think of one single fact, weird or otherwise. Let me have another beer and I will redouble my efforts.

  • 9 years ago

    Damn science getting in the way again. Geez, what are we gonna do?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You can't sneeze and keep your eyes open.

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