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Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:28 am
by noreply66
Theodor Seuss Geisel dropped out of Oxford before getting his PhD and called himself Dr. Seuss as a nod to his father.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 5:35 am
by noreply66
In order to burn off a Supersized Coke, fries and Big Mac you would have to walk for seven hours straight.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 6:41 am
by noreply66
When you talk on a cell phone while driving you are increasing your chance of being in an accident by 400 percent.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:59 am
by noreply66
Bullet proof vests ,fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:47 am
by noreply66
Coke makes so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take you over nine years to try them all.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 7:04 am
by noreply66
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:27 am
by noreply66
In the average trick-or-treater's bag, there's around 5,435 calories.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:38 am
by noreply66
Around 1,600 New Yorkers are bitten every year by other New Yorkers.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:18 am
by noreply66
It is believed that around 80% of Earth's gold is still buried underground.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:34 am
by noreply66
There are no area in Japan that is more than 100 miles from the sea.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:44 am
by noreply66
The earth's atmosphere is proportionately thinner than the skin of an apple.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:48 am
by noreply66
A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:56 am
by noreply66
The average woman's uterus expands up tp five hundred times its normal size during pregnancy.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 6:48 am
by noreply66
The average person flexes the joints in his fingers 24 million times in his lifetime.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 6:47 am
by noreply66
About 40% of people who go to a party in someone's home admit to snooping in the host's medicine cabinet.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 6:36 am
by noreply66
In its first four months of sales in 1958, over 25 million hula hoops were sold

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:33 am
by noreply66
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 6:21 am
by noreply66
Chewing gum can help improve one's memory

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:47 am
by noreply66
20% more antacids are sold the day after the Super Bowl than any other day.

Re: Unusual Facts Thread

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:44 am
by noreply66
Aprosexia is the inability to concentrate.