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Posted by Krubach
Quote:

On 2004-05-14 15:36:45, SnowBear wrote:
just in swedish ..



Talk about useless...


Posted by reuten
Wow, this IS useless!

Posted by SnowBear
yeah

Posted by batesie
.....the Sony MZ-N10 is made of magnesium alloy.


Posted by reuten
When the battery is all out you have to charge it!

Posted by 50Cent
i have been alive for 140160 hours (approx)

Posted by gelfen
If you're too open minded, your brains fall out.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

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[ This Message was edited by: gelfen on 2004-05-17 01:44 ]

Posted by gelfen
The average blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it
ejaculates, but only 10% of that actually makes it into his mate. So 360 gallons are spilled into the ocean everytime one unloads, and you wonder why the ocean is so salty...

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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump.'
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand;
"lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

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[ This Message was edited by: gelfen on 2004-05-19 08:23 ]

Posted by Kick_Me
I love chocolate

Posted by tom_riddle
p900 was based on p800.

Posted by gelfen
there are a bunch of facts (of varying accuracy) which i posted a few months ago in this thread:

Interesting history you all should know

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[ This Message was edited by: gelfen on 2004-06-09 06:53 ]

Posted by kristaga
Quote:

On 2004-05-19 09:20:31, gelfen wrote:
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).


I belive that if you sneeze with your eyes open they will fall out.
I have always imagined the word "Timbuktu" as hard to find a rhyming word to in English.
In Norwegian it is considered impossible to find a rhyming word to "pølse" (sausage).
In Norwegian the sentence "Agnes i senga" (Agnes in the bed) is palindromatic.
In Norwegian we write compound words as one, which makes interesting things happen:
"Angstskrik" (distress howl/fear shout), six consonants in a row. The word is a compund of "angst" and "skrik".
"Saueøyeeier" (sheep eye owner), nine vowels in a row, a compound of "sau", "e" (to bind the words) "øye" (ø is a vowel) and "eier".
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish have 29 letters in the alphabeth. The 26 latin and in addition 'æ', 'ø' and 'å' (Swedish use 'ä' and 'ö' for 'æ' and 'ø', but with same background) in the end of the alphabeth.
Icelandic have 36 letters, in this row:
a á b c d ð e é f g h i í j k l m n o ó p q r s t u ú v w x y ý z þ æ ö

The first artificial object to be sent into Earth orbit was as everybody know Sputnik 1. But for some reason I know that it weighed 83.6 kg.

Kristian André

Posted by Aikonoklast
The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second.

Posted by masseur
or...

The speed of light in vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second)

also interesting is

In 1983 the SI (Systeme International) defined a metre as:

The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.

Posted by Krubach
I have to take a leak...

Posted by kristaga
Quote:

On 2004-06-04 14:48:29, masseur wrote:
The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.


That's because the metre stick in France was discovered to be influenced by temperature and was unreliable.

The metre was originally defined to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from equator to the north pole.

Later defined as the lenght of the metre stick at 20(?) degees C. Now as you say.

The foot was originally defined to be the lenght of the upper (or lower?) arm of some king. Wonder why they call it foot then. It is longer than most people's feet. But:

My feet are exactly one foot. Or 30.48 cm. Or size EUR47.

Kristian André

Posted by jontyf
Youll have a happy life if you do the things you like
No matter how hard you try you CANNOT poop from your nose
Now I need a leak sausage

Posted by Aikonoklast
i joined esato on the 2nd day of the 2nd month of the 2nd year of the 2k

Posted by Lynx69
I cant sniff coke because the ice cubes block the straw

Posted by n.evil
Quote:


The foot was originally defined to be the lenght of the upper (or lower?) arm of some king. Wonder why they call it foot then. It is longer than most people's feet. But:

My feet are exactly one foot. Or 30.48 cm. Or size EUR47.

Kristian André




That would be because if you put your heel in the crease of your elbow, your foot will reach exactly to your wrist! So by conclusion it must have been the measurement of the lower arm of some king!

Posted by gelfen
According to the SI system of units:

The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.

This definition refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of zero K.

Posted by davetheplumber
Sadly, however hard u try, u will never be able to see ur forehead

Posted by soichiro
yes u can!! use a mirror!!
go on try it and knock urself out!!


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Effects of Elements on Steel

Steels are among the most commonly used alloys. The complexity of steel alloys is fairly significant. Not all effects of the varying elements are included. The following text gives an overview of some of the effects of various alloying elements. Additional research should be performed prior to making any design or engineering conclusions.

Carbon has a major effect on steel properties. Carbon is the primary hardening element in steel. Hardness and tensile strength increases as carbon content increases up to about 0.85% C as shown in the figure above. Ductility and weldability decrease with increasing carbon.

Manganese is generally beneficial to surface quality especially in resulfurized steels. Manganese contributes to strength and hardness, but less than carbon. The increase in strength is dependent upon the carbon content. Increasing the manganese content decreases ductility and weldability, but less than carbon. Manganese has a significant effect on the hardenability of steel.

Phosphorus increases strength and hardness and decreases ductility and notch impact toughness of steel. The adverse effects on ductility and toughness are greater in quenched and tempered higher-carbon steels. Phosphorous levels are normally controlled to low levels. Higher phosphorus is specified in low-carbon free-machining steels to improve machinability.

Sulfur decreases ductility and notch impact toughness especially in the transverse direction. Weldability decreases with increasing sulfur content. Sulfur is found primarily in the form of sulfide inclusions. Sulfur levels are normally controlled to low levels. The only exception is free-machining steels, where sulfur is added to improve machinability.

Silicon is one of the principal deoxidizers used in steelmaking. Silicon is less effective than manganese in increasing as-rolled strength and hardness. In low-carbon steels, silicon is generally detrimental to surface quality.

Copper in significant amounts is detrimental to hot-working steels. Copper negatively affects forge welding, but does not seriously affect arc or oxyacetylene welding. Copper can be detrimental to surface quality. Copper is beneficial to atmospheric corrosion resistance when present in amounts exceeding 0.20%. Weathering steels are sold having greater than 0.20% Copper.

Lead is virtually insoluble in liquid or solid steel. However, lead is sometimes added to carbon and alloy steels by means of mechanical dispersion during pouring to improve the machinability.

Boron is added to fully killed steel to improve hardenability. Boron-treated steels are produced to a range of 0.0005 to 0.003%. Whenever boron is substituted in part for other alloys, it should be done only with hardenability in mind because the lowered alloy content may be harmful for some applications. Boron is a potent alloying element in steel. A very small amount of boron (about 0.001%) has a strong effect on hardenability. Boron steels are generally produced within a range of 0.0005 to 0.003%. Boron is most effective in lower carbon steels.

Chromium is commonly added to steel to increase corrosion resistance and oxidation resistance, to increase hardenability, or to improve high-temperature strength. As a hardening element, Chromium is frequently used with a toughening element such as nickel to produce superior mechanical properties. At higher temperatures, chromium contributes increased strength. Chromium is a strong carbide former. Complex chromium-iron carbides go into solution in austenite slowly; therefore, sufficient heating time must be allowed for prior to quenching.

Nickel is a ferrite strengthener. Nickel does not form carbides in steel. It remains in solution in ferrite, strengthening and toughening the ferrite phase. Nickel increases the hardenability and impact strength of steels.

Molybdenum increases the hardenability of steel. Molybdenum may produce secondary hardening during the tempering of quenched steels. It enhances the creep strength of low-alloy steels at elevated temperatures.

Aluminum is widely used as a deoxidizer. Aluminum can control austenite grain growth in reheated steels and is therefore added to control grain size. Aluminum is the most effective alloy in controlling grain growth prior to quenching. Titanium, zirconium, and vanadium are also valuable grain growth inhibitors, but there carbides are difficult to dissolve into solution in austenite.

Zirconium can be added to killed high-strength low-alloy steels to achieve improvements in inclusion characteristics. Zirconium causes sulfide inclusions to be globular rather than elongated thus improving toughness and ductility in transverse bending.

Niobium (Columbium) increases the yield strength and, to a lesser degree, the tensile strength of carbon steel. The addition of small amounts of Niobium can significantly increase the yield strength of steels. Niobium can also have a moderate precipitation strengthening effect. Its main contributions are to form precipitates above the transformation temperature, and to retard the recrystallization of austenite, thus promoting a fine-grain microstructure having improved strength and toughness.

Titanium is used to retard grain growth and thus improve toughness. Titanium is also used to achieve improvements in inclusion characteristics. Titanium causes sulfide inclusions to be globular rather than elongated thus improving toughness and ductility in transverse bending.

Vanadium increases the yield strength and the tensile strength of carbon steel. The addition of small amounts of Niobium can significantly increase the strength of steels. Vanadium is one of the primary contributors to precipitation strengthening in microalloyed steels. When thermomechanical processing is properly controlled the ferrite grain size is refined and there is a corresponding increase in toughness. The impact transition temperature also increases when vanadium is added.

All microalloy steels contain small concentrations of one or more strong carbide and nitride forming elements. Vanadium, niobium, and titanium combine preferentially with carbon and/or nitrogen to form a fine dispersion of precipitated particles in the steel matrix.


getting metallurgical here are we?




Posted by gelfen
just to break the monotony of the lessons in elementary physics and chemistry.....

PROOF THAT THE WORLD IS NUTS !


In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with
animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual
relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
(Like THAT makes sense.)

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In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a
woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking
directly at them during the examination. He may only
see their reflection in a mirror. (Do they look
different reversed?)

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Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a
corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex
organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or
piece of wood at all times. (A brick??)

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The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is
decapitation. (Much worse than "going blind!")

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There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel
the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay
them for the privilege of having sex for the first
time...Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly
forbidden for virgins to marry.

(Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world, that even comes close to this?)

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In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to
kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with
her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other
hand, may be killed in any manner desired. (Ah!
Justice!)

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Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England -
but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

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In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her
husband, and the first time this happens, her mother
must be in the room to witness the act. (Makes one
shudder at the thought.)

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In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to
have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same
time. (I presume this was a big enough problem that
they had to pass this law?)

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In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from
vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may
be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places
where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on
the premises."

(Is this a great country or what? Not as great as Guam!)

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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an
hour. (Who volunteers for this stuff?)

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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure.
(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue...
(Hummm....I won't touch THAT one!)

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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30
times its own weight and always falls over on its
right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little
bottles of...? -- did the govt. pay for this
research??)

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Butterflies taste with their feet. (Ah, geez)

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know
some people like that.)

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Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like
that too)

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And, the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts. (Do you think
they have bad breath?)

Where are the applications for Guam?

Posted by ilia
i learned at university how to prove that 0=/=1. and 0 truly is not equal to 1! that stupid science which proves such useless stuff is called mathemetical analysis =)

Posted by Vlammetje
- Only 1 type of bird can fly backwards: the kolibri

- Annually there is more Monopoly money printed worldwide than real money..


Posted by riflogic
Its impossible for you to lick your own elbow.

Posted by mince-inside
Toblerone is much easier to break by nipping the peaks
- Swiss finishing school was not a complete waste of time


Posted by Barlz
Monkies can fly when thrown out of a window but then they die............I've lost many a monkey in this way

Posted by soichiro
almost everyone who reads this post will wanna try to lick their elbow.

go on.. knock yourselves out!

Posted by The Little Master
...i tried licking my elbow aswell...anyway check this out if you want

http://www.heptune.com/farts.html

and heres another useless fact

'Henry II was murdered by by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum'

Posted by riflogic
LON for London, DXB for Dubai, NYC for New York and so on are the three letter abreviations for cities used by the airlines to book tickets for passengers. But all the cities in Canada have an abbreviation starting with a Y because when the abbreviations were being created for the reservation systems, Canada was totally forgotten about.

Posted by gelfen
1. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history :-
Spades = King David
Hearts = Charlemagne,
Clubs = Alexander, the Great
Diamonds = Julius Caesar

2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

3. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the
air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

4. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th; John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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

6. Hershey's Kisses are called that, because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

7. What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception.

8. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? Their birthplace.

9. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? Obsession

10. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you find the name of a number that contains the letter A? One thousand.

11. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All were invented by women.

12. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? Honey.

13. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the
year? Father's Day

14. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most
ironic? He was allergic to carrots.

15. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? Snoop in your bathroom cabinets.


Posted by Chazzer3
Every year 13 people are killed by vending macines falling on top of them!

ba doom chhh!

Posted by methylated_spirit
It is illegal to eat snakes on a Sunday in Iraq

Posted by cheat
I pay a dollar a month for each channel on my crap cable.

Posted by methylated_spirit
You can get life in America for smoking hash, but only 10 years for heroin

Posted by maddav
The human mind has about 3-4 TB of free space.

Now how do i partition this thing.

Posted by lordmat
i dnt know nothing

Posted by kimcheeboi
Quote:

On 2004-08-01 19:16:08, maddav wrote:
The human mind has about 3-4 TB of free space.

Now how do i partition this thing.




or how do i hook it up to my computer do i can play some doom 3!



512 mb ram, 256 meg video, 2.4 GHz P4 HT, and it STILL LAGS!!!!!

Posted by 50Cent
Counter strike source is the game

1 gig mb ram, 512 meg video, 3.0 GHz P4 HT, and it STILL LAGS!!!!!

thats bloody insane.

Posted by kimcheeboi
what the hell is that?!?!?!

Posted by 50Cent
its a online shoot em up. the level of detail is crazy... like footprints in mud and shit like that. even on 3ghz it still laggs, couldnt believe it !!!!

Posted by axxxr
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.


Posted by axxxr
The Average American eats about 11.9 lbs of cereal per year.

The Average American drinks about 600 sodas per year.

More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones.

According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners.

The average American family views television six hours each day.

About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.

Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse. Supermarkets report very strong sales of almost anything they stock at the check-out line.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

Tide has 70 percent of the market share for detergent.

Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist.

About 24 percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires, and suicides.

About 60 percent of all American babies are named after close relatives.

August is the month when most baby's are born.

Cold pizza is fairly popular. A survey found 15 percent actually PREFER pizza this way, suggesting that the number who love hot pizza but don't mind eating the leftovers cold the next day must be quite high indeed.

In the United States, more than 25 percent of women's fashion dollars are spent on sizes 16 and up.

More than a third of all adults hit their alarm clock's \"snooze\" button each morning, an average of three times before they get up. Those most guilty of snatching some extra sleep are those in the 25-34 age bracket, at 57 percent.

Each year approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.

Hawaii is the only state in the United States where male life expectancy exceeds 70 years. Hawaii also leads all states in life expectancy in general, with an average of 73.6 years for both males and females.

Two out of three adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

While the average cost of air travel is about $60 per hour, using an air-phone during that plane trip can cost as much as $160 per hour.

Results of a survey show that 76 percent of women make their bed every day, compared to 46 percent of men.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.

75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.

Conception occurs in December more than any other month.

In the USA - more toilets flush at the half time of the Super Bowl than at any other time of the year.

50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters to avoid the high prices of snack foods.

The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.

Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.

Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

The typical person swallows 295 times during dinner.

The most common last name in Sweden is Johansson.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.




Posted by Qoastro
Quote:


The foot was originally defined to be the lenght of the upper (or lower?) arm of some king. Wonder why they call it foot then. It is longer than most people's feet. But:

My feet are exactly one foot. Or 30.48 cm. Or size EUR47.

Kristian André




If you try to put your foot to your lower arm you'll see that they are the same lenght ^^


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