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By: pridesax

pridesax — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:24:02 +0000

The average person ingests 8-10 spiders in a lifetime.

By: peach

peach — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:28:35 +0000

no. 84 Neato –It’s a good thing there aren’t many chocolate bar trees in the jungles with the parrots.

By: j-bone

j-bone — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:13:41 +0000

Over the past 6500 years or so, the average generation was a bit less than 20 years.

This gives you about a googol (1 with 100 zeros) living, direct ancestors at a time when the Earth’s population was under 140 million. (2 to the 333rd power)

Think about how much inbreeding it took to get you here today….

By: ChrisE

ChrisE — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:37:25 +0000

I’m sterile!

By: j. wyers

j. wyers — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:22:05 +0000

On average, you will die.

By: Benjamin Clyne

Benjamin Clyne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:24:05 +0000

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS it turns out is just a need for people to explain why babies are dying when everyone knows that it’s really just infants being killed by depressed mothers and cold cats looking for a warm place to sleep.

Why have you stopped eating?

By: e6c

e6c — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:39:07 +0000

Face it, at some point your parent were having sex and thanks to drugs like Viagra, they might be having sex right now.

By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:01:50 +0000

Jesus wasn’t born on Christmas.

By: xpargas

xpargas — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:08:05 +0000

for every pound of food you eat .05 percent of it is feces and insect parts

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:42:05 +0000

George W. Bush has been President for 7 years and has 1 more to go. And he has been able to push back almost 50 years of legislative progression in that small amount of time.

By: neato

neato — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:59:24 +0000

ChrisW Says: “The President of the United States can’t pronounce ‘nuclear’.”

Related trivia: It’s OK for democrats like Jimmy Carter to pronounce it “newkewlar”, but not for Republicans.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:20:25 +0000

The President of the United States can’t pronounce “nuclear”.

By: Moleculo

Moleculo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:02:59 +0000

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:02:54 +0000

Y’know, that punch you’re drinking looks like it has been spiked with my cat’s urine.

By: Poops McGee

Poops McGee — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:01:36 +0000

Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:54:47 +0000

Sorry Eva ,
I didn’t see your post #85. I tried to search for “bacteria”, but didn’t do it right. Maybe the bacteria made me do it wrong.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:47:35 +0000

We have a lot more bacteria in our bodies than cells. The bacteria are much smaller than cells, but they still add up to about 2 liters of our volume.

By: lorin sniktaw

lorin sniktaw — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:33:08 +0000

Wanna fly? It takes approximately 5.9 seconds to reach the ground from the observatory floor of the Empire State building!

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:13:12 +0000

Death rates in emergency rooms sky rocket in July as this is when 1st year residents start their rotations.

By: Zen Blue

Zen Blue — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:53:20 +0000

Nice mistletoe… Did you know that the average person unknowingly swallows an average of 4 spiders per year in their sleep?

By: DrJones

DrJones — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:52:18 +0000

No one likes you!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:31:03 +0000

Unfortunately for billions of other people, I was the fastest sperm.

By: Arielle

Arielle — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:25:39 +0000

There are enough nuclear warheads to kill everyone on earth 30 times over.

By: Diamond

Diamond — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:54:20 +0000

By the way and by the end of this year, over 25,000 US service men and women (military peoples) will have committed suicide.

By: Cori

Cori — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:27:35 +0000

The holiday season is also the season in which the most suicides occur.

Happy Holidays!

By: danielo

danielo — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:04:03 +0000

Occasionally, milk spoils INSIDE a woman’s breast. The solution is to let very hot water from a shower loosen the hard milk deposit, and squeeze it out like toothpaste.

By: PancakeMan

PancakeMan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:53:00 +0000

Oh, what a lovely Christmas tree! I see that you have an angel on top, how sweet!

You know, the Spanish Inquisitors made use of a torture device called the “Judas Chair”, where the subject would be made to sit on a pointed pyramid until they were slowly impaled through the anus.

OOoo, is that eggnog?

By: Clutch

Clutch — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:47:42 +0000

Fact: you’re all going to die.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:44:03 +0000

A Blue Whale’s penis is 12 feet long with a three foot diameter at the base. I remember hearing this on a National Geographic Special sometime in the late 70′s or early 80′s – I was just a little kid at the time. I ran out and grabbed the tape measure to see how big that really was and thought “Dang! That runs almost the length of our living room!” As a guy I went to high school with said when I relayed this fact to him years later – “Whoa. I’d hate to be on the receiving end of that thing.”

By: DrJones

DrJones — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:43:38 +0000

Question: do our “Debbie Downers” have to be facts, or just something awkward that will achieve friendlessness?

By: DrJones

DrJones — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:41:28 +0000

*scratching crotch area* Man this herpes is killin me!

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:39:30 +0000

And just in case anyone calls ‘bull’ on my facts, here is my source:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more -bacterial-cells-than-human-ones&sc=WR_20071204

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:38:47 +0000

Your body actually contains TEN TIMES more bacterial cells than human cells. This means you are basically more bacteria than human, and even forty of our genes are bacterial in origin!

Right now, the average adult has over five hundred different species living in his intestines alone, and I would rather spend the holidays alone with my millions of teeming personal bacterial cells than just about any bacteria-laden ‘human’ in my extended family.

By: neato

neato — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:35:31 +0000

Parrots can’t eat chocolate because it’s toxic to them.

By: Vonskippy

Vonskippy — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:30:39 +0000

95% of the so called “facts” listed here are 100% bull.

By: Mandie

Mandie — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:30:16 +0000

here’s a downer fact:

A “downer” is a farm animal that is too sick or injured to stand and walk. They’re routinely abused and oftentimes killed by other animals, but they’re still certified by the USDA. Pass the ham, please

By: orion

orion — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:29:26 +0000

All the evil man has heaped on the world has been brought about through his attempts to deny what he is: a meat-puppet trapped in a fleshy-tomb, transcended by the miraculous and the horrific, a god-snack.

By: neato

neato — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:28:34 +0000

Attila The Hun died from a nosebleed on his wedding night.

By: kunal

kunal — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:10:58 +0000

Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and went to a theater to hide. Boothe shot Lincoln in a theater and went to a warehouse to hide.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:04:49 +0000

Do you believe in the after-life? It has been documented that the human body loses approx. 21 grams after death…how much do you think YOUR soul weighs?

By: Lu Allen

Lu Allen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:42:59 +0000

At a wedding reception u have a 1/100 chance of getting a cold sore from one of the guests.

During an hour or swimming at a public pool u will ingest 1/12 urine!

From: http://www.angelfire.com/apes2/spankycow82/Absolutely%20Disgusting%20U seless%20Facts.htm

By: emptyminded

emptyminded — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:11:42 +0000

I hope Santa brings you what you want this year. I didn’t ask for it, but Santa brought me Acute Myloid Leukemia.

By: Mr Pudifoot

Mr Pudifoot — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:36:08 +0000

Juggling is the only polite way to play with your balls in public.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:31:56 +0000

There is about a gram (a quarter the size of a small peanut)of feces in every pair of dirty underwear, which then swishes around to get on all the clothes washed with them. Just think about how many pairs of underwear you wash in a single load.

By: pete

pete — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:16:00 +0000

Like peanut butter sandwiches? One pound of peanut butter typically can contain up to 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs.

By: Corvus

Corvus — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:15:01 +0000

Up to one third of the world’s population has Toxoplasmosis (~22.5% of Americans), an infection caused by the parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma encysts in muscle and brain tissue- the latter is important, because recent studies have shown that Toxoplasmosis has definent effects on the behavior of host animals, possibly including humans. In (alarmist) summation: one third of the world’s population, while they may think themselves to be self-determinant, is actually under the command and control of a brain parasite. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

By: pete

pete — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:12:56 +0000

In the mood for fast food? An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food annually.

By: Amanda8

Amanda8 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:11:36 +0000

60 million people will starve to death this year – 60 million people could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 percent.

USA, USA, USA!!! =)

By: nick

nick — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:09:09 +0000

my dog just died. she was a good dog. i loved her alot.

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:04:20 +0000

The closer the death of a spouse occurs to Christmas, the higher the chance that the other spouse will die before the holidays.