Obscure Fact Thread

A Grizzly bear can run 100 yards in under 6 seconds.
If the bear was running a race with Ussain Bolt he would easily beat him
and then might eat him.

Butterflies taste with thier feet

Y'all have come up with some dandies. Here is one I found.

If a group of wrasses (a type of fish) is all female, the largest female of the group will transform into a male.

Do you ever get the feeling that some things get carried to the extreme?

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

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.

Archimedes endured a tragic fate at the hands of drunken Roman soldiers. After forcing him to cut off and eat his own nose, they boiled him in oil.

WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. That’s how many tries it took Norm Larsen, a chemist, to concoct a formula that would prevent corrosion by displacing water.

Coca Cola is brown because the chemist who invented it thought the color would hide impurities in it.

Babies have taste buds on the roofs of their mouths, inside their cheeks and even on their lips.

Admin wrote:

Archimedes endured a tragic fate at the hands of drunken Roman soldiers. After forcing him to cut off and eat his own nose, they boiled him in oil.

Hmmm, I was taught a Roman soldier killed him with a sword when he was so lost in a math problem he didn't hurry it up when summonsed. His last words ware, "Don't touch my circles."

Eric, I am probably the only woman you can think of under 60 who has no piercings or tattoos.

A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant

SheSurfs wrote:

Eric, I am probably the only woman you can think of under 60 who has no piercings or tattoos.

I was going to say that my wife Christine doesn't, but I remembered that her ears are pierced.

SheSurfs wrote:

Admin wrote:

Archimedes endured a tragic fate at the hands of drunken Roman soldiers. After forcing him to cut off and eat his own nose, they boiled him in oil.

Hmmm, I was taught a Roman soldier killed him with a sword when he was so lost in a math problem he didn't hurry it up when summonsed. His last words ware, "Don't touch my circles."

You are probably right, I am just the messenger, please don't shoot the messenger. I just copied and pasted something I found on the internet and we all know that if it is on the internet then it unequivocally must be true, after all they can't put things on the internet that are not true, right?

Half the stuff I post was probably made up by some fifth grade kid in North Dakota.

No worries. Besides, I got all of the guns out of the house when my kids mastered the fine art of talking back in middle school.

Supposed TRUTHS posted on the internet... that aren't true:

* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

* The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space.

* Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour

Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled


It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

*Tree*~ wrote:

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour

Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled


It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

Lord have mercy! I am so lucky. I had that many of the damn things in my back yard Saturday evening.

yelladawg wrote:

*Tree*~ wrote:

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour

Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled


It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

Lord have mercy! I am so lucky. I had that many of the damn things in my back yard Saturday evening.

LOL You and me both. I went out to the everglades last year and I wanted ot get out of the van and take a look at this fishin hole. I pulled over on the side of the road, got out and not 2 secs my entire family were screaming and waving thier arms at me. I was lookin at them like they were crazy till I looked down at myself and saw I was covered with hundreds, amybe even thousands of mosquitos, either on me or buzzin around me.

I got back in the van and took off, we had to roll the windows down to get them all out. they screamed all the way down the road.

So its true what they say down here. If the aligators dont get you, the mosquitos will.

I remember camping at a State Park south of Ocala and the mosquitos were the size of B-52s.

hallmarkgrad wrote:

HAW! HAW! LOL just don't hack it for this one.

hallmarkgrad wrote:

LMAO!!!!!