True Facts

[ChrisZimbo]

The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!

Dolly Parton is planning on having breast reduction surgery soon to relieve the pain on her back.

A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.

Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.

Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.
lmao !!

 

[PaulyPac]

Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".

arghhh i hate him !

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

Weird

 

[AmerikazMost]

you know it's bad in the u.s. when you would actually choose to live in canada

 

[ChrisZimbo]

The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT.

Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.

We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday.

The UK's best selling hiking magazine published faulty coordinates for descending Scotland's tallest peak (Ben Nevis), and recommended a route that leads climbers off the edge of a cliff. damn!!

If you have three quarters, four dimes and four cents, you have $1.19. But you cannot make exact change for a dollar.

The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.

Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.

Over 8 years, this happened 284 times: "Cosmo" Kramer went through Jerry Seinfeld's apartment door.

There are more 100 dollar bills in Russia currently than there are in the United States.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it lmao

The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.

Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.

The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.

Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.

Only 14% of Americans say they've skinny dipped with the opposite sex.

What separates "60 Minutes" on CBS from every other TV show? No theme song or music.

In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon.

Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.

 

[AmerikazMost]

^ holy long ass post

 

[PaulyPac]

The shortest boxing match lasted ten and half seconds in 1946 between R. Walton and A. Couture.

Elephants can swim at two miles per hour

It’s so cold in verkhoaynsk Siberia, that boiling water poured from a kettle would be solid ice when it reaches the ground.

Hippopotamus actually means river horse

Although clumsy and ungainly on land these animals are extremely agile in water.
They can run along the bed of a river.

The blue whale, the largest animal ever known to inhabit the earth, gives birth to
a baby 25ft in length and about two and a half tons in weight.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.

Happened to my grandfather - he survived though. They left one of those metal tools in him, it wasn't razor sharp like a scalpel, but like scissors or that type of thing. He had pains in his stomach & was back at hospital within hours. The doctors opened him up again, took that stuff out & sewed him back up. Weirdly enough, he lost his belly button while being sewn back up......it's probably too weird for some

 

[ShockA]

Happened to my grandfather - he survived though. They left one of those metal tools in him, it wasn't razor sharp like a scalpel, but like scissors or that type of thing. He had pains in his stomach & was back at hospital within hours. The doctors opened him up again, took that stuff out & sewed him back up. Weirdly enough, he lost his belly button while being sewn back up......it's probably too weird for some

haha damn... first scissors are left in him, then he loses his bellybutton?

Geesh

I have heard numerous stories though on how people have died from having surgical materials left inside them... it's really sad that these doctors can save someones life via surgery, but fuck it all up by leaving something inside a patient.

 

[ill-matic]

fact: this is interesting

 

[critikaldesignz]

Here's some death stuff.

* It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

* The person who wrote the famous song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning" burnt to death when their home caught fire.

* In 1970, television newswoman Chris Hubbock announced, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in gore and guts in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide". Then she pulled out a gun and fatally shot herself in the head.

* Napoleon The Emperor killed over a thousand people with a cough. In 1799 he was deciding whether to release 1,200 Turkish prisoners of war when he coughed and said, "Ma sacre tough!" (my darned cough) which sounded to officers like "Massacrez tour!" (Kill them all!). So they did.

* A few months before he got killed in a car accident, James Dean made a driver's safety TV ad in which he said, "Drive safely; the life you save may be mine".

* Mark Twain, a famous writer, born on a year Halley's Comet visited us, correctly predicted he would die the next time it came by.

* It is a myth that the hair and nails grow after death; the skin shrinks, giving the illusion of their growth

* A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.

* Last words of Thomas Grasso, executed in 1995: "I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this". Oh, quit whining and have a seat.

* If you're planning on being cryogenically frozen, the ideal time to start the procedure is within 10 minutes of death.

* The first recorded means of execution is 'stoning.' It was usually a public participation sport, and it was considered bad form to hit the victim in the head. The preferred method was to keep the victim conscious and suffering for as long as possible from internal injuries and broken bones. Think that's horrible? They still do this in some countries. To women. Only.

* King Henry the VIII executed some 72,000 subjects. His favorite method was boiling people to death .

* William Kemmler was the first person to be executed in the electric chair in 1890, at Auburn Prison in New York. It was a disaster. The executioner had to administer several rounds of juice while Kemmler kicked, seared, smoked, thrashed and convulsed, finally dying after 8 minutes. An autopsy showed he literally cooked to death, from the inside out.

* When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it was not a federal felony to kill a President of the United States.

An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has been kept burning for 1,129 years (2005)

* When the first landing party went to Krakatoa after the 1883 eruption, the only living thing they found on the entire island was one spider, who was spinning a new web.

* King Cambyses of Persia (525 BC) marched 50,000 troops into the desert to attack Amun, on the Libyan border. A sandstorm of epic proportions boiled up and buried them all.

* Murderers, on average, are 7.5 years younger than their victims.

* Extreme cold is more lethal to humans than extreme heat. Coldness makes you sleepy, and when you fall asleep, you die.

* It would take more than 2.5 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest. Then you'd go --->S P L A T <---

* Armadillos and humans are the only animals that get leprosy.

* It's estimated that in one hour, Genghis Khan's army killed 1,748,000 people. Each of his men was ordered to kill as many people as they could until they dropped from exhaustion, and bring the ears of the victims to the officers for proof.

* Chocolate is lethal to dogs. Doesn't take much.

* Elephants have been known to die of broken hearts if a mate dies. They refuse to eat and will lay down, shedding tears until they starve to death. They refuse all human help.

* Union General John Sedgewick was killed during the Battle of Spotsylvania on May 9, 1864 while sitting on his horse and making the comment that the confederate troops were so inept that they "couldn't hit an elephant from this dist----" Those were his last words.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

haha damn... first scissors are left in him, then he loses his bellybutton?

Geesh

I have heard numerous stories though on how people have died from having surgical materials left inside them... it's really sad that these doctors can save someones life via surgery, but fuck it all up by leaving something inside a patient.

Yeah because of where they opened him up & sewed him back up, his belly button is no more.

 

[Kadafi Son]

This is some freaky shit