Interesting and Obtuse Facts Thread.

'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach.
Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
Spiders have transparent blood.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Eagles mate while airborne.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.
When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.
You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).
Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
Your brain is 80% water.
Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.
Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Streets in Japan do not have names.


got any others?

 

yes my child,


for real.


(i dont know if any of these are remotely true it was a txt document i found on my laptop and i thought it was coo)