More fun facts from our Board

[Made in the USA]

Fact Number : 1876

Internationally Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.


"Boobwatch" was way too "intellectual" for me!

[Made in the USA]

Fact Number : 300

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name used on all state documents is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.


WOW! Say that fast 7 times! Or in your addresses you could write:

Dodge City, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Whew

I wonder if you could abbreviate it: RIPP (sounds like Saturday night at the baked bean buffet)!

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Interesting Human Body Facts

Full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

It takes food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach..

One human hair can support 3kg.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

If the average male never shaved his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Side by side2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

Women blink twice as much as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

When you are looking at someone you love your pupils dilate.

They do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something you cannot taste it.

The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

OK MIT..... SHOW ME AND MUFFY YOUR THUMB

[Justoo]

[jeezeweeze]

[Made in the USA]

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[Made in the USA]

Fact Number : 1672

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.


OK, I'm dying to know the "facts" behind this one! I suppose it is something to do with the Alamo, or "things are BIG in Texas"!

[jeezeweeze]

Where is Texkan when you need her...

[Made in the USA]

Fact Number : 336

If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.


Oh! OK. They said a "S L I N K Y"-----------

[meadmice]

Fact Number : 214

The Siege Of Belgrade was a poem written by Alaric Watts in 1817. It was a poem where each line (of 27) had only words beginning with each letter of the alphabet: Line 1: A-words. Line 2:B-Words. Line 26: Z-words

Hmm, I wonder what letter words were in that 27th line?