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    Question 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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    Fish drowning, this sounds like some form of Military intelligence to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirshavesalot View Post
    Fish drowning, this sounds like some form of Military intelligence to me.

    David
    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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    folding in half 7x

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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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    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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    i know..strange huh??

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    Most sharks being primitive creatures have no way to pump water through their gills so they must move all the time and the have no air bladder so if they stop moving they sink. So I guess if they stop moving they suffocate and then drown.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BAMARACING8 View Post
    The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping.
    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.

    So unless you have a good way to prove this....I'd say you're wrong.

    Also: http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp
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    Quote Originally Posted by LX_Emergency View Post
    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.

    So unless you have a good way to prove this....I'd say you're wrong.

    Also: snopes.com: Spiders Swallowed Per Year
    Alex, I believe they got the world's foremost expert in this to undertake th research. I can't remember her name, but she's an old lady. I'm told she once swallowed a fly.

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