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04-11-2010, 04:40 PM #1Senior Member
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some odd facts
a ball of GLASS will bounce higher than a ball of rubber
a JIFFY is 1/100 of a second
no peice of paper can be folded more than 7x
fish CAN drown
just thought i would share some useless TRUE information
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04-11-2010, 04:46 PM #2< Banned User >
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Fish drowning, this sounds like some form of Military intelligence to me.
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04-11-2010, 04:55 PM #3Usagi Yojimbo
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I believe they drown in air David. As for the folding paper only 7x, that has me baffled to the point that I am not certain that I believe it
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04-11-2010, 05:03 PM #4Senior Member
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folding in half 7x
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04-11-2010, 07:10 PM #5Senior Member
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.
On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
Fish have eyelids.
The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping.
There are one million ants to every human in the world.
Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.
Elephants only sleep two hours a day.
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04-11-2010, 07:17 PM #6Senior Member
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The ball of glass bouncing makes me think of a marble on concrete slab - bounces like crazy! I bet it does bounce higher than a rubber ball of the same dimensions.
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04-12-2010, 06:44 AM #7Vlad the Impaler
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I've heard this mentioned before....I don't believe it as no-one has ever been able to explain to me why this would be true. Originally Posted by BAMARACING8
So unless you have a good way to prove this....I'd say you're wrong.
Also: http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.aspLast edited by LX_Emergency; 04-12-2010 at 06:47 AM.
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04-13-2010, 06:30 AM #8Know thyself
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YouTube - MythBusters- Folding Paper Seven plus times Originally Posted by BAMARACING8
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When water is forced through the gills of any fish backward, it lowers the efficiency of the gills (which is normally AMAZINGLY high) down to very low levels. In normal function blood is forced from back to front, against the flow of water. This maximizes contact between water and blood. By reversing the flow of water, blood is in prolonged contact with depleted water, causing suffocation.
"Drowning" = water forced forward through the gill.
04-13-2010, 09:04 AM
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Your body is creating and destroying 15 million red blood cells a second.
In space, astronauts cant cry properly. Theres no gravity so the tears dont run down their faces.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
And, just because it corroborates something I've thought about squirrels for a long time, it is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
