Bizarre Facts

[Justin Case]

Bizarre fact #1574:
Did you know...
On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day.


Bizarre fact #3001:
Did you know...
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.


Bizarre fact #4148:
Did you know...
Several of the Bond girls, namely Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Eunice Gayson, and Claudine Auger, were unable to match an alluring voice to their sexy physical attributes. For each of them, their lines were dubbed by aspirant actress Nikki van der Zyl, who later left the film industry to practice as a legal professional. On "Doctor No," van der Zyl did every female voice except Miss Moneypenny and a Chinese girl, and she also dubbed Raquel Welch's grunting in "One Million Years B.C."


Bizarre fact #2213:
Did you know...
William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.


Bizarre fact #1211:
Did you know...
The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.


Bizarre fact #1137:
Did you know...
In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.


Bizarre fact #4242:
Did you know...
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."


Bizarre fact #2887:
Did you know...
The rickshaw was invented by the Reverend Jonathan Scobie, an American Baptist minister living in Yokohama, Japan, built the first model in 1869 in order to transport his invalid wife. Today it remains a common mode of transportation in the Orient.


Bizarre fact #3852:
Did you know...
In 1915, the average annual family income in the United States was $687 a year.


Bizarre fact #3626:
Did you know...
O.J. Simpson rushed for 2,003 yards in 1973.

[Rick]

Bizarre fact #3001:
Did you know...
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

Only until you reach 50. After that it's 1.3 ounces. Oops. Gotta go.

[Justin Case]

Bizarre fact #4242:
Did you know...
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

oops, lol

[crashdive123]

oops, lol

Type in colgate to the google language tools and translate from spanish to english and you get colgate. Seems like one of the bizzare facts they left out was that they make stuff up hoping that somebody will read it and pass it along. Just sayin'.

[Justin Case]

Type in colgate to the google language tools and translate from spanish to english and you get colgate. Seems like one of the bizzare facts they left out was that they make stuff up hoping that somebody will read it and pass it along. Just sayin'.

This is Spanish for "Go hang yourself"

"vaya se cuelgan"


a little closer I guess,, but I think you are right..

[Justin Case]

Bizarre fact #2960:
Did you know...
Homo sapiens shouldn't feel too high and mighty, even though they currently dominate the Earth. After all, they are covered with flesh that medical scientists have determined bears an important resemblance to Silly Putty. The specific gravity of your skin and the gooey stuff is close enough that doctors have actually used Silly Putty to align and test CAT scan machines.


Bizarre fact #1456:
Did you know...
Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players.


Bizarre fact #4116:
Did you know...
In the movie "Two Jakes," which is set in the 1940's, Jack Nicholson walks right by a BankOne automatic teller machine. Didn't know there were too many of those around in the 1940's.


Bizarre fact #1461:
Did you know...
Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.


Bizarre fact #1383:
Did you know...
Cubic Zirconia is 55% heavier than real diamonds.


Bizarre fact #3532:
Did you know...
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.


Bizarre fact #3833:
Did you know...
Each year approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.


Bizarre fact #2900:
Did you know...
The windmill originated in Iran in AD 644. It was used to grind grain.


Bizarre fact #3019:
Did you know...
The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.


Bizarre fact #485:
Did you know...
People from the United States eat the most chicken per person than anywhere else in the world.

[hoosierarcher]

Bizarre fact #1574:
Did you know...
On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day.

I'm way below average here.

Bizarre fact #3001:
Did you know...
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

I'm way, way above average here. My morning "water" is about 2 quarts if I don't wake up and go in the middle of the night. I'm 49 so I guess I have 8 months until Rick's malady might hit me.

Bizarre fact #2213:
Did you know...
William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.

What is so bizarre about this? I think it's more bizarre he is fluent in Esperanto.

Bizarre fact #1211:
Did you know...
The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

If you consider that The Phillipines are in the Southern Hemisphere. December is early Summer there so it's not bizarre at all.

[Justin Case]

Plants and Nature

Bizarre Fact #1:
Did you know...
A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water.

Bizarre Fact #2:
Did you know...
A plant in central Australia, the candlesticks of the sun, grows a candle-shaped flower once every 7 years.

Bizarre Fact #3:
Did you know...
A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.

Bizarre Fact #4:
Did you know...
American colonists discovered that superior candles could be made from the fruit of a squat bush growing in the sand dunes along the New England seashore. The small, grayish bayberry was picked, crushed, and boiled. It had to be skimmed several times before the pale, nearly transparent, green fat was sufficiently refined. Bayberry candles were highly prized, because so much labor and so many berries were needed to make just one candle.

Bizarre Fact #5:
Did you know...
An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels. 100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels. Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica.

Bizarre Fact #6:
Did you know...
At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York's Central Park.

Bizarre Fact #7:
Did you know...
Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.

Bizarre Fact #8:
Did you know...
Carrageenan is a common ingredient in ice cream and toothpaste. Carrageenan is seaweed. A purple, edible seaweed, also known as Irish moss, that's found along the coasts of Northern Europe and North America. It's used as a suspending agent in foods, pharmaceuticals and liquids, as a clarifying agent for beverages, and in controlling crystal growth in frozen confections.

Bizarre Fact #9:
Did you know...
Heroin is derived from the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, which means the poppy that brings sleep.

Bizarre Fact #10:
Did you know...
In ancient religions, the Norsemen considered the mistletoe a baleful plant that caused the death of Baldur, the shining god of youth.
Bizarre Fact #11:
Did you know...
Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day.

Bizarre Fact #12:
Did you know...
Leaves of the Sumatra breadfruit tree are notched when they first form, yet have no indentations when the leaves mature.

Bizarre Fact #13:
Did you know...
Lightning keeps plants alive. The intense heat of lightning forces nitrogen in the air to mix with oxygen, forming nitrogen oxides that are soluble in water and fall to the ground in rain. Plants need nitrates to survive, so without lightning, plants could not live.

Bizarre Fact #14:
Did you know...
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

Bizarre Fact #15:
Did you know...
Of the 15,000-odd known species of orchids in the world, 3,000 of them can be found in Brazil.

Bizarre Fact #16:
Did you know...
Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.

Bizarre Fact #17:
Did you know...
Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used for barbecuing. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked.

Bizarre Fact #18:
Did you know...
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

Bizarre Fact #19:
Did you know...
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees.

Bizarre Fact #20:
Did you know...
The Curly Redwood Lodge is one of northern California’s most unique lodges. It was built from one curly redwood tree that produced 57,000 board feet of lumber. The tree - cut down in 1952 - was 18 feet 2 inches at the trunk. Curly redwood is unique because of the curly grain of the wood, unlike typical straight grained redwood.
Plants and Nature

Bizarre Fact #21:
Did you know...
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.

Bizarre Fact #22:
Did you know...
The giant puffball, lycoperdon giganteum, produces 7,000,000,000,000 spores, each of which could grow into a puffball a foot in diameter and collectively cover an area of 280,000 square mile, greater than the size of Texas. Fortunately, only one of the spores actually becomes a puffball, and all the others die.

Bizarre Fact #23:
Did you know...
The giant sequoia, which produces millions of seeds, can take 175 to 200 years to flower. No other organism takes this long to mature sexually.

Bizarre Fact #24:
Did you know...
The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.

Bizarre Fact #25:
Did you know...
The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).

Bizarre Fact #26:
Did you know...
The partridge berry is a botanical Siamese twin. Each berry develops from 2 flowers.

Bizarre Fact #27:
Did you know...
The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas.

Bizarre Fact #28:
Did you know...
The Saguaro Cactus, found in the Southwestern United States doesn't grow branches until it is 75 years old.

Bizarre Fact #29:
Did you know...
The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

Bizarre Fact #30:
Did you know...
The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.
Bizarre Fact #31:
Did you know...
The Sitka spruce is Britain's most commonly planted tree.

Bizarre Fact #32:
Did you know...
The slippers plant (bulbo stylis) of Haiti looks like a pair of fuzzy slippers.

Bizarre Fact #33:
Did you know...
The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium), when brushed by a passerby, ejects its seeds and a stream of poisonous juice that stings the skin.

Bizarre Fact #34:
Did you know...
The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.

Bizarre Fact #35:
Did you know...
The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar.

Bizarre Fact #36:
Did you know...
The woman's tongue of Zanzibar is a plant with pods full of seeds which rattle continuously.

Bizarre Fact #37:
Did you know...
There are an estimated 285,000 species of flowering plants on Earth compared to 148,000 for all other plants. Flowering plants are very important because they provide food for herbivores - plant-eating animals - and for humans.

Bizarre Fact #38:
Did you know...
Trees do not have life expectancies like humans. Some in California are believed to be four-thousand years old or more. How can trees live so long? The simple answer is that they're not as complex as people. So, as long as conditions are right, trees continue to live and grow, until something interrupts it.

Bizarre Fact #39:
Did you know...
While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard da Vinci was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture.

[2dumb2kwit]

Bizarre Fact #36:
Did you know...
The woman's tongue of Zanzibar is a plant with pods full of seeds which rattle continuously.

HaHaHa.....

[hoosierarcher]

Did you know that while most of these facts are interesting not many are truly bizarre?

[Justin Case]

Did you know that while most of these facts are interesting not many are truly bizarre?

LOL,,, I am thinking maybe "Interesting Facts" was taken when they named the site ?

[Rick]

Yeah, and mildly annoying facts just didn't have a ring to it.

[Justin Case]

Yeah, and mildly annoying facts just didn't have a ring to it.

Ok already, I get it,,,,,,,,, No More "Facts" for you guys

[Rick]

I think you'd have to check the Bar Association's member list for that.

[Ken]

Ok already, I get it,,,,,,,,, No More "Facts" for you guys

Justin? Here's a fact for ya'. Your state’s got a new law that says when a couple get divorced, they are still legally brother and sister.

[2dumb2kwit]

Justin? Here's a fact for ya'. Your state’s got a new law that says when a couple get divorced, they are still legally brother and sister.

Weeeeeelllll.....yeah, but who gets the single wide?

[Justin Case]

Justin? Here's a fact for ya'. Your state’s got a new law that says when a couple get divorced, they are still legally brother and sister.

I Think you are Geographically Challenged They dont even Sell Banjos Here,

[Justin Case]

Weeeeeelllll.....yeah, but who gets the single wide?

More Importantly, Who keeps the Hound

[2dumb2kwit]

More Importantly, Who keeps the Hound

Well, now....that depends. Is it a Democrat, or Republican? LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1Aafqsb-E

[Justin Case]

Just Call, BR------549 , lOL