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Submitted by Life101 (View user info) at 2006-07-17 01:15:41 EDT
The average life span for a USSR soilder entering Stalingrad was 24 hours.
Germany lost 136 Generals, which averages out to be 1 dead General every 2 weeks
The Eiffel Tower is painted approximately once every 7 years and requires nearly 50 tons of paint each time. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Paris, visited by more than six million people per year.
By D-Day, the Germans had 1.5 million railway workers operating 988,000 freight cars and used 29,000 per day
The average women eats 20kg of lipstick in her life.
The Russians destroyed over 500 German aircraft by ramming them in midair (they also sometimes cleared minefields by marching over them.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Disney's Snow White was originally drawn as a Blonde.
Between 1939 and 1945 the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, An average of about 27,700 tons of bombs each month.
The female Victorian aristocracy in Britain would change their clothes at least four times a day.
12,000 heavy bombers were shot down in World War 2
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
3 or 4 ground men were wounded for each killed
Of the 250-plus known species of shark in the world, only about 18 are known to be dangerous to man.
The USSR Lost over 20 million citzens durning world war 2 many experts agree it was higher due to commanders not reporting deaths for moral reasons.
During World War II, Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.
The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
Jellyfish do not have brains.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Columbus had three ships on his first American exploration. On his second expedition, seventeen ships were under his command.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses, no-one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The city with the most rolls Royce per capita, is Hong Kong.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange ,silver, or purple.
Before a wrist injury changed her career plans, Marlene Dietrich had wanted to become a professional concert violinist.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
The spines on a newborn hedgehog start to appear within 24 hours.
The birthstone for May, the emerald, is perceived as a symbol of success. Even more than the diamond, this jewel has been a favorite of emperors and kings.
English has replaced Russian as the most popular foreign language in schools in China.
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas. Essential to the balance of nature, spiders annually consume a hundred times their number in insects.
According to the Detroit Free Press, 68 percent of professional hockey players have lost at least one tooth.
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C. London, England reached the mark in 1810 and New York City, USA made it in 1875. Today, there are over 300 cities in the world that boast a population in excess of 1 million.
Ostriches are such fast runners, they can outrun a horse. Male ostriches can roar like a lion.
The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.
In Wales, there are more sheep than people. (In 1996, the human population for Wales was 2,921,000, with approximately 5,000,000 sheep).
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
According to the U.S. government, people have tried more than 28,000 different ways to lose weight.
The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.
The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).
A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.
The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).
15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
The pancreas produces Insulin.
The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
The human body is comprised of 80% water.
The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.
The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
Over 1 million people commit sucide each year.
20% of the USA belives in aliens.
Titanic is the highest grossing film of all time.
70% of Highschool seniors drink every weekend.
More people choke on pills than hot dogs.
In the USA people spent 13 billion dollars on their pets.
Depression wil affect 1 in 5 men at some point.
You consume about 3 spiders yearly.
It takes the average person 11 minutes to fall asleep.
The strip in Las Vegas makes more money than the US mint.
A mere 3 billion aluminum cans are made each year.
32 million people visit a porn site each year.
In 2000 pornography made 250 million dollars over the net.
Kazaa is one of the most downloaded software in the world.
Over a billion songs are traded each month on line.
Instead of sending his men supplies in the battle of Stalingrad Hitler gave his men comdons.
The avergae German consumes over 350 pints of beer yearly.
Over 600 million condoms are made each year.
The Black Death killed over a third of Europe.
Every day 7,000 people die of starvation.
Every 10 seconds some one dies of AIDS.
Every 40 Seconds some one tries to commit suicide.
Kill some time...
User Reviews
Submitted by Cinderblock (user info) at 2006-09-09 13:58:39 EDT (#)
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Recalculate.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-09-09 13:44:43 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-07-18 00:00:02 EDT (#)
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woooo mythbusters haha
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-07-17 23:57:40 EDT (#)
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mythbusters hahah
wooooooooooo!
Submitted by Soley_Trinity (user info) at 2006-07-17 21:21:38 EDT (#)
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You're not suffering from micropsia. Your penis really is that small.
Submitted by dr_weazel (user info) at 2006-07-17 21:02:51 EDT (#)
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A ducks quack DOES echo, you obviously dont watch Mythbusters.
Oh, and that one about eating 3 spiders a year is bullshit too.
Submitted by Sockster (user info) at 2006-07-17 08:18:25 EDT (#)
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I could have made better ones up.
Submitted by el_em_en_oh (user info) at 2006-07-17 07:55:38 EDT (#)
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What's a comdon?
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 03:34:22 EDT (#)
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EAT THAT Life101!
Dan totally loves me.
So I guess that means YOU should kill yourself!
:D
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2006-07-17 03:16:01 EDT (#)
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I don't hate you, I just forgot about these comments until just now!
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 02:25:03 EDT (#)
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Yup, Dan hates me.
:(
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-07-17 02:24:47 EDT (#)
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Wow.
Someone learned Ctrl-C/Ctrl-P!
Yay for you!
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-07-17 02:14:04 EDT (#)
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Every 40 Seconds some one tries to commit suicide.
Try it kids it's easy!
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 02:13:10 EDT (#)
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Dan, do you hate me?
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2006-07-17 02:06:46 EDT (#)
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Anyone remember "hatemadness" a while ago?
now THAT, was a contest.
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:58:15 EDT (#)
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+1 for hate!
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:51:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:16:49 (#)
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I hate these posts and I hate that people give them loads of +2s.
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We all hate you too so dont worry.
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:47:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:35:20 (#)
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I was so excited to reveal this secret about Average_Dan I accidently gave this post a +2.
**Coley now hates me!!!**
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HAHAH
No I don't.
Wait, unless all the little asterisks imply that you were excited by that prospect, in which case maybe I SHOULD hate you..NAW. You're alright I guess.
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:45:46 EDT (#)
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Once again Kaos, if I was an asian woman, I wouldn't be On Uber right now, I'd be at home naked in front of a mirror.
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:41:35 EDT (#)
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I'm giving you a zero because my comment reminded me that in Shakespeare's time, the word "die" was slang for "orgasm". Upon remembering that, your post became funny as hell. But it's my fault, not yours.
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:40:33 EDT (#)
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I've died before. In the Shakespearean sense of the word.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:35:20 EDT (#)
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I was so excited to reveal this secret about Average_Dan I accidently gave this post a +2.
**Coley now hates me!!!**
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:33:53 EDT (#)
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The Ubersite user Average_Dan is an alter.
The user is actually a nymphomaniac Asian girl who is kept locked in her strict Shinto parents' basement.
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:28:38 EDT (#)
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"All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20"
No they aren't.
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:21:49 EDT (#)
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cut and pastes don't work here...
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-17 01:16:49 EDT (#)
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I hate these posts and I hate that people give them loads of +2s.