did you know... ?

[Al Hanif]

did you know that the highest temperature ever recorded on the surface of the earth was 57,8 °C (136.04 °F) in the city of El Azizia in Libya in 1928 ?!



the lowest temperature ever recorded on the surface of the earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) in Vostok Station in 1983 ?!



In this thread : post some "did you know" facts

[coconut_banana]

Did you know 11% of people are left handed

Did you know August has the highest percentage of births

Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it

Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

Did you know a bear has 42 teeth

Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales

Did you know no two corn flakes look the same

Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib

Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean

Did you know Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lif****z

Did you know rabbits like licorice

Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters

Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy

Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue

Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex

Did you know reindeer like bananas

Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds


Did you know birds need gravity to swallow

[Al Hanif]

Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib

Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

I am impressed about the extra rib.

[coconut_banana]

Did you know skiing is the only word with double i

Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt

Did you know honey is the only natural food which never goes off

Did you know the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia

Did you know elephants are the only mammal that can't jump

Did you know hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards

Did you know a strawberry is the only fruit which seeds grow on the outside

Did you know in a deck of cards the king of harts is the only king without a moustache

Did you know the hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other

Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)

Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters

Did you know the only animals that purr are cats

Did you know only female mosquitoes bite

Did you know the word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter

Did you know the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard

Did you know Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee

Did you know the word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'

Did you know Earth is the only planet not named after a diety

Did you know African elephants only have 4 teeth

Did you know bats are the only mammals that fly

[coconut_banana]

I am impressed about the extra rib.

extra rib doesnt realy matter to me

[coconut_banana]

did you know that i have glasses and that you did not need to magnetize the font three times its actual size?

did you know that i am not concerned?

[coconut_banana]

says the idiot who has been banned 6 times since last week. i don't think you are capable of being concerned.

did you know that i dont like people who stalk me?

[Al Hanif]

Did you know honey is the only natural food which never goes off

I don't get it.

Did you know the hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other

The heck ?

Did you know the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard

Not on my keyboard. w is in the last row


Did you know Earth is the only planet not named after a diety

even in arabic WTF.

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[coconut_banana]

i don't like the idea of people stinking of weed from two miles away nor m i naatkai. did you know that??

lol lol lol lol lol....... you are (not) funny. did you know that?

[coconut_banana]

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1) honey doesnt go bad

2) i dont know

3) that was for normal people's keyboards. you are a french martian.

4) no

[Al Hanif]

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

wow is a popular game !

[coconut_banana]

an adult may fly lives only for one day, but its children live for a year or more.

[Cookiemonster]

Cool Facts

This is an interesting list of cool and weird facts:

• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
• By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
• On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
• Rats and horses can't vomit.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Cats urine glows under a black light.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
• 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.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
• In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
• Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
• In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

[Karachi]

did you know that the highest temperature ever recorded on the surface of the earth was 57,8 °C (136.04 °F) in the city of El Azizia in Libya in 1928 ?!

The ElAziza Libya one is wrong, because just look at a map of the town of El Aziza in Libya, it is located on the Mediterranean sea, on the northern tip of the country, not in the middle of Sahara desert. The temperatures in that part of Libya almost never exceed 40 Celsius, The Italian company which recorded this temperature in 1928 made a mistake in reading the temperature.

I think the hottest spots on earth are some where in the middle of Sahara in Africa, Ruba al Khali in Arabia or Balochistan/Thar deserts in South asia

^ any where from these places could be the hottest places, not El Aziza though

[Babygak]

DID YOU KNOW…
* THE ETERNAL CYCLE OF LIFE: The last letter of the Japanese alphabet is also the first letter.
* People who were born in the last three months of the year are twice as likely to find out that they were separated at birth
* An iceberg contains significantly more total heat energy than a burning match. The reason is the sheer size of the iceberg
*Caves breathe. They inhale and exhale great quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air rushes in or out seeking equilibrium.
* Sound travels much faster through a steel than it does air: Sound travels at 5100 m/s through steel, 1480 m/s through water and 330 m/s through air.
*the Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
* your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body
* a hippopotamus can run faster than a man
* August has the highest percentage of births
* March 14 is 'save a spider day'
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors
* Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car