Early morning boredom

Hey, so I'm always up into the wee hours of the morning because all of my classes this semester are night classes. As such, I don't have much to do, because my roommate is sleeping.

This is a plea to all those on this forum, asking you to avert my boredom, if only for a few moments. And also, I'd like to just talk about things with you guys, I read, but never really think to post...
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Honey is easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

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

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

Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 MPH

Abie Goldberry, a Quebec junior hockey player from the 1930's was hit by a puck while playing hockey, which ignited a set of matches that he had in his pocket. His uniform caught on fire and he was burned quite badly before the fire was put out.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua---anatahu - a New Zealand hill.

Coca-Cola was originally green and contained small amounts of cocaine.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

In 1895, Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over the counter drug for coughs and as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. Today, diacetylmorphine is better known as heroin.

Wow.
Just wow.
I have no idea where you got this, but it is very interesting, and it has in fact distracted me.
Unfortunately, there are three things in that list that I know are wrong. (Yay Mythbusters!)
Human hair and fingernails do not grow after death, if they appear to do so, it is because the skin around them retracts.

You can fold paper more than 7 times:


And a duck's quack does echo, and I would post a video if I could have found one on youtube...

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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

No they don´t, as the body starts to break down ( at the moment of death it begins ), the tissues dehydrate and shrink, giving the appearance of growth.

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Honey is easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

Naturaly resistant to all known bactiria and viruses, one of two known foods that when left in a closed container it will never spoil or become unedible, what is the other ? no it´s not a fruitcake LOL

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Coca-Cola was originally green and contained small amounts of cocaine.

It was clear, the bottle was green

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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 MPH

It also causes your heart to stop, what other body function produces the same effect ( is also a cause of major heart attacks in both male and females )

Let's see...

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Naturaly resistant to all known bactiria and viruses, one of two known foods that when left in a closed container it will never spoil or become unedible, what is the other ? no it´s not a fruitcake LOL

The only thing that I know that would fit that description is salt, which is also the only edible mineral.

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It also causes your heart to stop, what other body function produces the same effect ( is also a cause of major heart attacks in both male and females )

The other function that he is referring to is going to the bathroom. Specifically going #2 (Elvis died on the toilet)

I don't know why, but I know a lot of completely useless info...

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Naturaly resistant to all known bactiria and viruses, one of two known foods that when left in a closed container it will never spoil or become unedible, what is the other ? no it´s not a fruitcake LOL

The only thing that I know that would fit that description is salt, which is also the only edible mineral.

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It also causes your heart to stop, what other body function produces the same effect ( is also a cause of major heart attacks in both male and females )

The other function that he is referring to is going to the bathroom. Specifically going #2 (Elvis died on the toilet)

Salt would also qualify I guess, but the other food is Peanut Butter, the natural oil found in Peanuts is also imunne to all known bacterias and Viruses.

Speaking of Salt, a natural crystal found on all continents, been around for millions of years, capable of returning to its natural form when mixid with other fluids, Why is there an expiration date on the Package ??

as far as the Heart Stopping body function, It´s the Orgasm, regardless of sex, both male and females actualy experiance a minor heart attach during each climax.

La petite mort = The Little Death

Elvis died of a drug overdose wich caused his heart to stop, not a natural body function, well not in most people

Well, I'm not sure about the drug thing with Elvis, I assume you're right, just like I assume most major musicians do drugs. I do know, however, for a definite fact, that he was found on the toilet. And, about dying while taking a dump, all I can say without TMI is that my mother is a nurse, and she has some graphic stories...

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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

True...he also could write with both hands in reverse in order to confuse his competitors..or so History Channel has taught me..

ZedHead wrote:

Unfortunately, there are three things in that list that I know are wrong. (Yay Mythbusters!)

Haha ya I just copy-and-pasted.

slob212 wrote:

Speaking of Salt, a natural crystal found on all continents, been around for millions of years, capable of returning to its natural form when mixid with other fluids, Why is there an expiration date on the Package ??

Slob, ever full of trivia, just as I remember. I'll chance a guess: Is it because of the iodine?

It's not from the iodine, the iodine is added artificially so that people don't get goiters. Because they're absolutely nasty, and everyone likes salt.

The Government requires Sell by/Best By dates to be on all that stuff. Thats why its on there...just a random number.

You hair finger nails don't continue to grow after you die. It just seems that way because the skin dehydrates, which makes it shrink, making hair/fingernails seem longer.