Interesting facts (like the Bible is the most stolen book)

[Androme]

http://www.geocities.com/beckygretz19/weird_facts.html

The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

A one minute kiss burns 26 calories.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the USA.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

The longest placename in Great Britain is Gorsafawddachaidraigddanheddogleddol-
lonpenrhynareurdraethceredigionÿÿd.

Daily, you will breathe in 1 liter of other people's anal gases.

During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool, you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

The word 'penis' is Latin for tail.

In the 18th century, women removed unwanted body hair with a mixture of vinegar and cat dung.

[pablissimo]

A large proportion of that sounds urban-mythy

[ChubbyChecker]

And the rest sounds like bollocks

[pablissimo]

Wait you got this from a ****ing geocities page?

[cnaw]

Originally Posted by ChubbyChecker

And the rest sounds like bollocks

and all of it sounds OLD

[Gayle29uk]

The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

Nearly true

A one minute kiss burns 26 calories.

True

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

False (no link but sawdust is the normal filler for dynamite although it is theoretically possible ground peanut shells could be used)

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Apparently true.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

No idea

The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the USA.

True, also the most shoplifted in the world.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

True (about 2/3 of the way down).

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

Close, 96% is the only figure I can find quoted in a reliable source.

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

True.

The longest placename in Great Britain is Gorsafawddachaidraigddanheddogleddol-
lonpenrhynareurdraethceredigionÿÿd.

False, it's Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-Llantysiliogogogoch.

Daily, you will breathe in 1 liter of other people's anal gases.

No idea.

During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool, you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine.

Utter total cobblers. Think about it, assuming the urine content of a swimming pool was 10% (massive exageration) that would mean according to them you drink 11.5 litres of pool water in an hour. Utter cobblers.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

No direct links but I can see how that would be true.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

Apparently true.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

I can't find any evidence that this unlikely event ever happened.

The word 'penis' is Latin for tail.

True, check yourself here.

In the 18th century, women removed unwanted body hair with a mixture of vinegar and cat dung.

God knows and I'm too bored of this to check

[Proteus]

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

What about "Go!" or "Be!"?

Every continent begins and ends in the same letter. eg AfricA, EuropE.

North America? South America?

Every continent has a city called Rome.

Antarctica?

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

I find that hard to believe, as England hasn't existed as an independent state since 1707.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Was that 4 on one foot and 2 on the other or 3 on each foot?

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

Any British person doing this would be very clean indeed.

The Netherlands and the United States both have anthems that do not mention their country's name.

Maybe they do, but they are hardly unique. I don't recall "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" being in "God Save The Queen".

The Sears Tower in Chicago has its own zip code.

Buckingham Palace, the House of Commons and the House of Lords all have their own postcodes, and the last two are in the same building. In fact, someone on my road has their own postcode, so this is hardly special.

[Phang]

Originally Posted by Proteus

What about "Go!" or "Be!"?

isn't a subject needed?

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by Phang

isn't a subject needed?

Sentence, n.

A series of words in connected speech or writing, forming the grammatically complete expression of a single thought; in popular use often such a portion of a composition or utterance as extends from one full stop to another. In Grammar, the verbal expression of a proposition, question, command, or request, containing normally a subject and a predicate (though either of these may be omitted by ellipsis).

In grammatical use, though not in popular language, a ‘sentence’ may consist of a single word, as in L. algeo ‘I am cold’, where the subject (= I) is expressed by the ending of the verb. English grammarians usually recognize three classes: simple sentences, complex sentences (which contain one or more subordinate clauses), and compound sentences (which have more than one subject or predicate).

(OED)

So, no, a subject is not needed.

[Phang]

feh

[Androme]

I'm surprised people went up and checked these - I merely found them amusing - thanks hehe