Did you Know? thread

[newtownbluebags]

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

 

[Punkess]

During Howard Hughes stays at the Desert Inn in Vegas, he made the chef cut each piece of chocolate cake he ordered into an exact square, which he checked with a ruler. If they weren?t square, he sent them back.

 

[Punkess]

In preparation for a 1938 flight, Hughes had thousands of Ping-Pong balls stuffed in a compartment of his plane because he believed it would keep it afloat in water.

 

[newtownbluebags]

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

 

[Punkess]

Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.

 

[newtownbluebags]

Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.

 

[Punkess]

:shock:

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

 

[newtownbluebags]

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. Don't ask how I know this...

 

[Punkess]

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

 

[newtownbluebags]

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

 

[Punkess]

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

8-[

 

[newtownbluebags]

The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.....ouch!

 

[Crusher]

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

she also shows signs of being labotamised. Note incision marks just under hairline

 

[newtownbluebags]

The cockroach's favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps!...........

 

[Punkess]

she also shows signs of being labotamised. Note incision marks just under hairline

Possibly, maybe that's why her eyes are all weird...

Apparently the mona lisa painting is smaller than it was originally because theives have cut her out of the frame and made off with her!

 

[newtownbluebags]

Due to rain, for a few weeks each year K2 is bigger than Mt Everest.

 

[Eelementary]

There's no rest for the wicked.

 

[newtownbluebags]

Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

 

[Punkess]

The stalk of the broccoli, about one-third of a pound (approx 150g), contains more vitamin C than two and a half pounds (1.13kg) of oranges.

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

:O :shock: i love my brocolli.