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beduffbrickie
beduffbrickie Posts: 642 Member
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tell me something you dont think I would know.... random facts welcomed :wink:
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  • _Stampede_
    _Stampede_ Posts: 66
    A douche /ˈduːʃ/ is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.

    Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching—a bag for holding the fluid used in douching. To avoid transferring intestinal bacteria into the vagina, the same bag must not be used for an enema and a vaginal douche.
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    There are 10 times more stars in the visible Universe than all the grains of sand in the world.
  • gaiareeves
    gaiareeves Posts: 292 Member
    Gender is a spectrum, not a binary. 'Man' and 'woman' are not the only genders, and are in fact simply opposite ends of the spectrum.

    'Genderqueer' is a catch-all term used to describe anybody who does not identify as a binary gender.
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    The Statue of Liberty is forever mooning New Jersey
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    The Statue of Liberty is forever mooning New Jersey

    And on that note, the Texas Tech horse statue is forever mooning Texas A&M. :wink:
  • FollowThatUnicorn
    FollowThatUnicorn Posts: 200 Member
    The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Although you may have already known that.
  • GeneveSparkles
    GeneveSparkles Posts: 283 Member
    People have about 3 pounds of bacterial organisms living in their bodies
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
    The saying that you eat 8 spiders in your lifetime while sleeping is false.

    Spiders enjoy warm damp areas....you eat WAY more than 8 in your lifetime.
  • JPod279
    JPod279 Posts: 722 Member
    32% of all people know that 43% of all facts are made up.
  • cabaray
    cabaray Posts: 971 Member
    Seahorse males, not females, get pregnant and have babies.
  • FollowThatUnicorn
    FollowThatUnicorn Posts: 200 Member
    The saying that you eat 8 spiders in your lifetime while sleeping is false.

    Spiders enjoy warm damp areas....you eat WAY more than 8 in your lifetime.

    Arrggggg!!! Nooooo!!!!
  • LindaCWy
    LindaCWy Posts: 463 Member
    Canadians don't live in igloos
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
    When a pilot in a fighter jet flies at night over water, flying right side up or up side down looks the same. They have to watch their monitors to know how they are flying.
  • JPod279
    JPod279 Posts: 722 Member
    The 697th digit of Pi is 9.
    The 698th digit of Pi is 2.

    The band Pearl Jam was originally called Mookie Blaylock, as they were fans of the basketball player by the same name. Mookie Blaylock played college ball at OU and for three teams in the NBA. Pearl Jam's first album, 10, is also the number Mookie wore in college and as a pro.
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    It takes 832 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

    I have the certificate from the company attesting to that fact.
  • HauteP1nk
    HauteP1nk Posts: 2,139 Member
    Canadians don't live in igloos

    What?!?! Next you're going to try and tell me that they don't have Moose as pets. :wink:
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    Your foot will fit exactly between your elbow and wrist.
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    It takes 832 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

    I have the certificate from the company attesting to that fact.

    Surely that would depend on the tongue size.
  • GeneveSparkles
    GeneveSparkles Posts: 283 Member
    There are more occurences of the numbers 1, 2, and 3 than 7, 8, 9 in the world.
  • Twilightsunflower
    Twilightsunflower Posts: 324 Member
    if you rub your hands on stainless steal after cutting an onion it helps remove the scent of the onion from your skin
  • JPod279
    JPod279 Posts: 722 Member
    If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
  • LindaCWy
    LindaCWy Posts: 463 Member
    Canadians don't live in igloos

    What?!?! Next you're going to try and tell me that they don't have Moose as pets. :wink:

    This will BLOW your mind then. I have never even seen a moose, except for in the zoo and I've lived here my whole life nodoubtaboutit eh.
    :wink:
  • still_crafty
    still_crafty Posts: 682 Member
    When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months
  • DarthCeltic
    DarthCeltic Posts: 1,236 Member
    the average male thinks of sex 6 times a minute.. this is males smile six times a minute as well..
  • standbycuego
    standbycuego Posts: 2 Member
    The male angler fish spends it's life looking for a mate, and only one. Once he finds his female, the female attaches the male angler fish to her body, and then she slowly consumes the males body and absorbs his gonads by osmosis so that she can impregnate herself. One female angler fish can do this to as many males as she desires.
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 Member
    Sodium fluoride (NaF), which is often used to add fluoride to drinking water, inhibits cellular respiration. Basically, it prevents cells from converting glucose into a usable form of energy (ATP), which causes further problems for cell functioning.
  • _Stampede_
    _Stampede_ Posts: 66
    Sodium fluoride (NaF), which is often used to add fluoride to drinking water, inhibits cellular respiration. Basically, it prevents cells from converting glucose into a usable form of energy (ATP), which causes further problems for cell functioning.
    +1 for you
  • rllewell
    rllewell Posts: 234
    There are more islands around the state of Alaska than the rest of the United States.

    There is more coast line in Alaska than the rest of the United States.

    The Arctic and Antarctic circle are the determining lines on the longest and shortest days of the year whether you get 24 hours of daylight or darkness. As an example if you lived on the Arctic Circle, on June 21st you'd have 24 hours of daylight and on December 21st you'd have 24 hours of darkness.

    I lived in Anchorage, Alaska which was slightly below the arctic circle so on June 21st we got around 20 hours of daylight and 4 hours on December 21st. At peak times you could be gaining or losing 5-6 minutes of daylight each day!
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    It’s impossible to sneeze in your sleep.
  • snoopytwins
    snoopytwins Posts: 1,759 Member
    "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a sentence that contains every letter in the English alphabet (called an English-language pangram).

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