Facts You've Never Heard of

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    The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 264 hours.


    The furniture polish "Pledge" means "Piss" in the Netherlands.


    Most lipsticks contain fish scales.


    In Iceland, tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.


    One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.


    The heat of a lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. (The sun's surface is 6,000 degrees centigrade).


    In 1998, 48 people lost their lives due to rollercoaster accidents in the USA.


    The word 'Queue' is the only word in the English language that can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed one by one.


    Butterflies taste with their feet.


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    feel free to add more
     
  2. meth and rock cocaine arent included in the staying awake challenge i guess cause i have personally seen people not sleep on drugs for over 2 weeks at a time.
     
  3. the man who designed the Double Helix sybmol for DNA strands did so with the influence of LSD
     
  4. i got 11 days and then hospitalization... lol
     
  5. Bee's commit suicide.:(
     
  6. Your piss can be used to power batteries equivalent to a AA battery.(thank you MANswers:D)

    Male seahorses become pregnant and bear the offspring.

    Bald eagles can make nests as big as the average CAR:eek:
     
  7. yeh, we use to try and stay awake as long as we could. usualy ran out of dope before the 2 week mark and pased out. i've stayed up past a week mulltiple times on drugs. crazy real hallucinations. phycosis. insanity.
     
  8. crazy stuff. i like useless information
     
  9. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.


    There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.


    Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
     
  10. Beer makes your boobs grow.
     
  11. Facts:

    Ketchup was once sold as medicine.

    According to sleep researchers only about 5% of people dream in color.

    More babies are born in the month of september than any other month (september baby right here)



    Here are some interesting and real laws out there:

    In Macomb, Illinois, it's illegal for a car to impersonate a wolf.
    In Rumford, Maine, it's against the law to bite your landlord.
    It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
    In San Francisco it's banned to pick up used confetti to throw again.
    It's illegal in New Jersey to slurp your soup.
    In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal to kiss your wife on sunday.

    the reason these are still in action, is because no one ever thought to change them. oh well.

    -From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (always a classic)
     
  12. Sleep researchers lol, that made me laugh.

    Could people say in their posts if they dream in color or not, to see if this is true or false, cause I don´t think I trust "Sleep researchers" that much. :p

    I dream in color by the way...
     
  13. yeha i had a nice colorful dream last night and i always do
     
  14. I'm not sure if I dream in color, but I don't think I dream in black and white.

    Here's a fun fact though, all of us will some day die and be forgotten.

    Oh wait you all knew that, right?
     
  15. aligators or crocidiles swim up to 80 mph

    thank u snapple lid:D
     
  16. Did you make this up? No man designed the symbol for DNA. DNA is actually a double helix shape as seen in nature.

    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
     
  17. Cool thread... the lighting bolt thing is crazy that people survive
     

  18. yeah i was thinking that too
     
  19. Very good thread!
     
  20. The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.

    All the Clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20 :smoking:

    Almonds are a member of the peach family

    Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors


    And I heard that it's physically impossible to lick your elbow, but I'm sure there's someone out there who can do that... double jointed people and what not.

     

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