The Information Thread

bluefooted · Post by **bluefooted** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:19 pm

Originally posted by Maelstrom
A female praying mantis doesn't always eat the head of her mate. In fact, it happens less than 10%. It is believed that she accidentally mistakes her mate for food. (Insects aren't known for their intellectual prowess...)

OOhhh! Good one! But it depends on the species. In some cases, the male must lose his head in order to ejaculate. The brain in his head continually sends a message inhibiting ejaculation. Once the head is removed, the brain located in his abdomen can take over and sperm transfer can occur. He doesn't die without his head (insects are awesome!) and copulation can last for a couple of hours after that.

Siona · Post by **Siona** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:58 pm

Dolphins and humans are the only animals who have sex for pleasure.

The center of a super massive black hole is the size of a speck of dust. But, that speck of dust weighs 3 million times more than our sun. There is also an expired supernova that weighs one billion pounds per teaspoon.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Da Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona Lisa's lips.

Elephants are the only animals on Earth that can't jump.

In Egypt ((I don't know how long ago)), a man named Bahgat Mostafa Said died in his apartment with no cause. 18 cats (that were not his) came and surrounded his body. A week later, after a bad smell had disturbed neighbors, police investigated the apartment. They found the body and tried to move it, but the cats attacked. It took two hours to remove the cats and move the body.

And-and-and-

I could on on forever.

~Siona

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:53 am

Weird Laws:

In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from a plane.

In Miami, it's illegal to imitate an animal.

In Tennessee, it's illegal to drive a car while sleeping!

In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on a Sunday.

It's illegal to chew gum in Singapore

In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.

In Pheonix, Arizona, you can't walk in a hotel lobby with spurs on!

Random:

Maps are actually not geographically correct. On most flat maps, Greenland appears to be about 1/3 to 1/2 of the size of Africa, while it is actually 1/13 of the size of Africa.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Welsh corgis were named because in celtic myth, corgis are the vehicles for faeries.

The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

There are more plastic pink flamingos than real ones in the US.

nightcrawler30 · Post by **nightcrawler30** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:50 am

In New York the penalty to jumping off a building is death..
here is another one but i forgot what state it was: it is illegal to shoot a bufflo out of a two story window.

SheCat · Post by **SheCat** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:54 am

Screeched is the longest monosyllabic word in the English language.

You can only have a maximum of $1.19 in change before you can make change for a dollar.

Post by **steyn** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:19 pm

The University of Alaska covers four time zones.

cyberphobia: fear of computers or working on a computer
dutchphobia: fear of the dutch
erythrophobia: fear of the color red
hellenologophobia: fear of Greek terms
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words
lachanophobia: fear of vegetables
linonophobia: fear of string
levophobia: fear of things to the left side of the body
leukophobia: fear of the color white
melanophobia: fear of the color black
mycrophobia: fear of small things
octophobia: fear of the figure 8
Papaphobia: fear of the pope
pediophobia: fear of dolls
pogonophobia: fear of beards
porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple
Russophobia: fear of Russians
symmetrophobia: fear of symmetry
triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13
xanthophobia: fear of the color yellow
zemmiphobia: fear of the great mole rat

and that just describes my fourth personality,
now my third personality, that ones a doozy!

Bamf Bunny · Post by **Bamf Bunny** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:01 pm

Originally posted by Siona
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Or "The game's afoot!"

Siona · Post by **Siona** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:39 pm

Originally posted by Bamf Bunny
Originally posted by Siona
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Or "The game's afoot!"

How could I have forgotten. Bad Siona, bad, BAD! :p

~Siona

Tengu Aberdeen · Post by **Tengu Aberdeen** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:57 am

Napoléons name was originally "Buonaparte" (for remember his family was originally from Corsica!)

Post by **steyn** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:34 am

Hitler had only one testicle, no wonder he was always so pissed.

BLUE_2007 · Post by **BLUE_2007** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:30 pm

If you have alektorophobia, you're a chicken of chickens.

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:05 pm

Annually 100 people choke to death from ballpoint pens.

Post by **steyn** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:45 pm

When we total the monetary value of the elements in our bodies and the value of the average person's skin, we arrive at a net worth of $4.50!

Woohoo, I'm $4.50 worth, that's like a bagillion rand

Post by **steyn** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:55 pm

if there was no dust, there would be significantly less rain. dust particles help gather water molecules, and when they're large enough they fall, thus dust helps rain.

now let me catch one of you people touch a rag to clean and I swear there'd be hell to pay.

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:56 am

Okay, might be ruining the movie Finding Nemo for you but... If that really did happen (nemos mom and family eaten) Nemo's dad would turn into a girl, and Nemo would mate with his dad/mom to ensure the family would survive.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:05 am

Wow. Thank god they didn't show much after Nemo was found

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:06 pm

Yeah... On average, American men cry 1.88 times a month; Bulgarians cry 0.43 times a month; NightPoofer... Who knows...

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:26 am

yeah, no one can count that high.

Fingerprints are made actually made of tiny pores.

The strongest muscle in the male body is the tongue.
The strongest muscle in the female body is the uterus.

Pigs are about 90 percent as smart as dogs.

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:23 am

lighting strikes 600 times a second around the world. :o

CurlyyHairGirl · Post by **CurlyyHairGirl** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:20 pm

The saying "lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is a lie, it can hit the same target as much as it wants, dernit.

There have been around 1599 earthquakes this year, just in the united states with no estimated deaths.

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:09 pm

Skipping a meal and eating at the next one can possibly make the person gain weight, then lose it. Your body takes that skip as a threat of its survival, and at the next meal, it will store more of the foods as fats.

CurlyyHairGirl · Post by **CurlyyHairGirl** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:36 am

Female dogs have a higher risk of gaining weight if they are not spayed before their first menstrual cycle.

more odd laws.

Pacific Grove, California- It causes a misdemeanor if you kill or threaten a butterfly

Ventura County, California- Cats or dogs can't have sex without a permit.

Sarasota, Florida- It is illegal to wear swimwear while singing a public place.

Chicago, Illinois- A hat pin is considered a concealed weapon.

Michigan- It is illegal for a woman to cut her hair without her husband's consent.

Minnesota- It is illegal to mock skunks.

Brainerd, Minnesota- Every man must grow a beard

Ohio- It is illegal to sell beer while wearing a Santa Claus suit, even if you are a dog.

Seattle, Washington- It is illegal to sell lollipops. Suckers are fine.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:50 am

There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cookie box.

One out of every 230 cars made was stolen.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at 3,000 miles per hour.

3,000 ears ago, the average life span of an Egyptian man was 30 years.

In the US, every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire.

Over 2500 left-handed people are killed by uses products made for right-handed people.

Porcupines float.

Sloths move so slowly that algae grows inside the hollow part of their fur.

NightPoofer · Post by **NightPoofer** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:25 am

Breaking News Fact:
Research found to cause cancer in rats!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
...Bitch Creek...
The first company to use the modern-day aluminum can was Coors brewery, in 1959. The can the used however, was only 7 ounces!

Singe · Post by **Singe** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:09 am

Born and raised in the state of Franklin (if we'd stayed a state we'd have been the only state that was preceeded with "state of") I can also tell you that Tennessee almost split in two, the eastern unionist part being the state of Franklin. Also probably the poorest backwater state imaginable.