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A certain type of hyena's vagina is 16cm long. The umbilical cord on the other hand is only 8cm. This causes a majority of hyena's to die the first time they give birth. It also causes a great deal of problem for mating.
 
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Well, theres 2 ways to respond to this:

1. Ofcourse, peeling onions doesn't break the cell walls, which means no enzymes getting broke down.

2. False, your eyes get irritated by gasses produced from sulfoxides going volatile. It has absolutely nothing to do with your mouth, so chewing gum cannot possibly prevent it.


However, cutting onions underwater will prevent the gas from forming.
 
Thats your one fact eh, hyena vagoo...?
Would you rather me talking about duck penii?

btw, your list (and the listin the OP) are copy/pasted from various websites ;p

I have alot of "interesting" odd/unknown facts to tell when when I get home from work... and they're not cheated :P

And yes, Skaw is right. Easiest wak to cut onions without crying is to have a bath of water (you know, a large, rectangular bucket made out of plastic) and cuttingthe onion in that.

I've gone immune to it though. Perhaps because I eat onions like one would eat apples, but that's besides the point ~.~

edit: I'll treat you to a quickie though: babies have five times more taste buds than an adult, which is one of the reasons they're more sensitive to food and prefer quite tasteless foods or a "weak" taste. Even a weak taste can taste very strong to them. While white bread isn't the most healthy thing to eat, its what babies enjoy, due to its rather weak, neutral taste. That is why we, as adults, enjoy pretty much the same thing our parents enjoy, and like best the food our mother make, as those are the taste buds that surive to our adult years. This is also one of the reasons every human being percieve tastes and flavours different.
 
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177. A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times

Mythbusters did it 15times? Maybe it was 12. With a piece of paper well over the size of a football field.

Well I assume it means normal sized paper >.>
 
it also depends on how you fold it. If you fold it in half each time, the number of times you can fold it greatly decreases.

Anyway, fun but useless facts to follow:

1) The direction a dog waves it tail depends on the mood its in. A happy/excited dog is more likely to wait it towards the right, while a scared/nervous/frightened dog is more likely to wave it to the right. That is, if the dog does not have it between his legs, in which case he's submissive.

2) The German city of Nördlingen is built on top of 72000 ton Diamond. This is because of a meteor that hit the earth about 15 million years ago, and turned a huge layer of Graphite in to Diamond.

3) A grown man, on average, consists of 16 kiloes of Coal.

4) Nuns wear a tight headdress, because the early Christian church believed that Virgin Mary were fertilized through the ear.

5) 40% of Mc. Donald's total income is from the sale of Happy Meals

6) Towards the end of Second World War, Japan became desperate to turn the luck around. The military hired kamikaze pilots, while the navy hired kamikaze torpedoes. From November 1944, suicidal Japanese men climbed on board small torpedoes called "Kaiten". The Kaiten were equipped with bombs, programmed to explode within 8 meters off a ship. These Kaitens were then launched from the submarines, and the crewmen then manually drove the torpedo towards enemy ships. Even if he missed the the ship, his fate were sealed. He either died in the explosion, or crushed by the water at the bottom of the ocean.

7) The rings of Saturn are over 400000 kilometers wide. However, they are only roughly 30 meters thick.

8 ) Nikola Tesla, (after whom the Tesla Coil is named), were a great inventor, rivaling that of Thomas Edison. Some say he even surpassed him. Unlike Edison, however, Tesla were suffering from a condition called "Obsessive-compulsive disorder". This is a condition that makes a human obsessed with small details and routines, which are almost impossible to break out of. Such as walking around the chair once before sitting down, or only walking on the white of the pedestrian crossing. Tesla were obsessed with the number 3, and were extremely frightened of bacteria. He also had various small forcible rituals that he had to follow, and various reoccurring impulses.

9) The majority of life went extinct when algae first added oxygen to water and the atmosphere 2 billion years ago

10) Tobaco were used to "resurrect" people that had drowned in Themsen. The Tobaco smoke were blown in to the dead person's ass. If this didn't work, the smoke were forced down to the lungs through the nose. I quite honestly have no idea if it even worked on a single person. I'd assume not, as it is no longer used.
 
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it also depends on how you fold it. If you fold it in half each time, the number of times you can fold it greatly decreases.

Also pretty sure it was talking about folding it half each time.

I can make tiny folds everywhere and make 100 folds -_-
 
Yes, that's why I mentioned it :P Usually when folding a paper, it is assumed to be in half. If I claim I can fold a paper 30 times, I most likely wouldn't be lying (I've never actually tried). However, others would say I am lying, due to assuming I mean folding it in half.
 
Charles Manson once dismissed Scientology as being "too crazy".
Believe it.
 
-Ozzy Osbourne was banned from San Antonio for pissing on the Alamo. This also lead to a new local law being put into effect saying you can't fucking urinate on the Alamo.
He was also wearing a dress at the time...
 
1) The direction a dog waves it tail depends on the mood its in. A happy/excited dog is more likely to wait it towards the right, while a scared/nervous/frightened dog is more likely to wave it to the right. That is, if the dog does not have it between his legs, in which case he's submissive.

Which is it man? ;|
 
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28. Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.

False. The land speed record for a crocodilian is about 10 miles per hour (about 17 kilometers per hour) and these animals quickly grow tired when running on land, which means that as long as you can see it coming, any teen or adult in decent shape can easily outrun one of these animals. Run away from the water, as crocodiles and alligators seldom run on land unless they're trying to get back into the water and out of danger. The commonly-repeated instruction to run in zig-zags is useless: the quickest way to put distance between the animal and you is to run away in a straight line.

Isomiau said:
44. It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

In 1971 it rained for the first time in 401 years in the Atacama Desert.

Skaw said:
Well, theres 2 ways to respond to this:

1. Ofcourse, peeling onions doesn't break the cell walls, which means no enzymes getting broke down.

2. False, your eyes get irritated by gasses produced from sulfoxides going volatile. It has absolutely nothing to do with your mouth, so chewing gum cannot possibly prevent it.


However, cutting onions underwater will prevent the gas from forming.

It has been my experience that if you saok the onions in ice water for 20 minutes or so before you cut them, it doesn't have that much of an effect on you. So basiclly, freezing them helps to prevent the gas from forming.

Isomiau said:
264. Porcupines can float in water.

That is because their quills are filled with air.
 
Sadly this is not true, there are no man made structures visible from space. If you like weird trivia like this try and watch QI on Stage 6 :D.

On QI they tricked them by saying visible from the moon.

The wall is visible from SPACE, but not the Moon.

Foxes penis are barbed and they kinda hook onto the inside of the female fox which is why she sounds like she is in pain, because he's tearing her up inside.

Crocadiles and Aligators have strong muscles for biting DOWN, but have weak muscles for opening the mouth, meaning you could cripple one with an elastic band in all honesty.
 
The incorrect parents thing is probably an exaggerated number, but, it does indeed happen. Screwed up but true.

Though, Blue, in your case, lighter hair can be caused by outside factors so I wouldn't worry too much about that, and eyes... well, eyes can actually be altered by outside factors too. lol. but hazel eyes can actually appear seemingly out of nowhere.


for the curious, i was born with my mother's family's crystal blue eyes but had a lazy eye problem, and some oddball doctor in England prescribed some kind of eye drops, they didn't really help my lazy eye but since then my eyes have been more green than blue, but show evidence of both colours
 
I am the only one in my family with hazel eyes, and my hair is a lot lighter than theirs too... :omg:
It is actually very possible to get hazel eyes even though your parent's eyes are blue. Hazel is a dominant color. If one of your grandparents had hazel eyes, it can skip their children, but still appear in their grand children, due to being dominant.

On QI they tricked them by saying visible from the moon.

The wall is visible from SPACE, but not the Moon.

Foxes penis are barbed and they kinda hook onto the inside of the female fox which is why she sounds like she is in pain, because he's tearing her up inside.

Crocadiles and Aligators have strong muscles for biting DOWN, but have weak muscles for opening the mouth, meaning you could cripple one with an elastic band in all honesty.
The same goes with cats. The male cat also bite down on the female's neck in order to calm her down. Similar to how cat moms carry their children in the neck in order to make them calm. The "barbed wire" is to hook on to the female and prevent her from running away.
 
The same goes with cats. The male cat also bite down on the female's neck in order to calm her down. Similar to how cat moms carry their children in the neck in order to make them calm. The "barbed wire" is to hook on to the female and prevent her from running away.
lol, wonder what kind of event prompted that evolutionary change?
 
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