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— 5 years ago(November 24, 2020 02:40 AM)My brain hurts.
Posted on November 23, 2020, at 16:54 EST.- Try to breathe and swallow at the same time. You can't.
- It's also impossible to hum while holding your nose.
- If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
- Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. Same with cows.
- "umop apisdn" is "upside down" spelled upside down with different letters of the alphabet.
- Brussel sprouts grow on stalks like this:
- And pineapples grow out of the ground like this:
- Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPad than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.
- Some of the apples you can buy in a grocery store are over a year old.
- Every Froot Loop tastes the same. The color doesn't matter.
Kellogg's. - The toy Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it's Woody Pride.
- And while we're at it, Mr. Clean's full name is Veritably Clean.
- Oh, and Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.
- Carrots were originally purple.
- The word "swims" has a secret:
- Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you as a shark is.
- The Lion King was released closer to the moon landing than to today.
Walt Disney Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection. - Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he's an egg.
- France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
- Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets.
- Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.
- The words "Pacific Ocean" are a good example of how difficult English can be:
- The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
- A strawberry isn't a berry, but a banana is.
- Avocados and watermelons are also berries.
- New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.
- North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.
- Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.
- There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
- If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
Pac-Man/Bandai Namco Entertainment, Inc./PlayGoogle. - Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
- Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
- The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
- This is how big a traffic light is:
Reddit. - There are more tigers in Texas than the rest of the world.
- John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, had a grandson who was alive this year.
Fierceabin/Getty Images/via GeneAmusings. - The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur — you know, dinosaur pee — is almost 100%.
- There are fewer atoms on Earth than there are ways to arrange a deck of cards.
- Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.
Bob Thomas/Getty Images. - There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.
- Wombats are way bigger than you thought:
- The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex lived and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
- The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.
- Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.
- Beethoven and George Washington were alive at the same time — in fact, George Washington was in his forties when Beethoven was born.
- Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.
Cthoman/Getty Images. - A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
A million seconds is about 11 days.
A billion seconds is about 32 years.
I'm tellin' ya, a billion is a lot:
Twitter. - There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.
- And there's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.
Omersukrugoksu/Getty Images/via UploadWikimedia. - There are more public libraries than McDonald's in the US.
- It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
- Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity did in the 19th century.
- This is what poppyseeds look like under a microscope:
- A "butt load" is an actual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.
- Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have the same exact birthday — down to the year.
- Scotland is farther north than Alaska.
- Not only is Reno, Nevada, west of Los Angeles, but so are six state capitals.
Google. - If you're in Detroit and you walk south, you'll actually walk into Canada.
- Every odd number has something in common:
SavvygoonerTumblr. - This is what Pluto looks like compared to Australia:
- "Will Will Smith smith?" and "Will Smith will smith" are sentences that make
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 24, 2020 03:05 AM)
- "umop apisdn" is "upside down" spelled upside down with different letters of the alphabet.
Amazing. - Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPad than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Exactly. And Cleopatra was Greek and white. - Some of the apples you can buy in a grocery store are over a year old.
Ewww. - Every Froot Loop tastes the same. The color doesn't matter. Kellogg's.
I've suspected this since I was like 5 years old. - Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it's Woody Pride.
Sounds like the name of a gay porn star. - And while we're at it, Mr. Clean's full name is Veritably Clean.
I call bullshit on this one. Some marketer made that up. - The word "swims" has a secret:
What's the secret? - France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
The U.K. needs to bring back the guillotine for the royal family. - The words "Pacific Ocean" are a good example of how difficult English can be:
And? - The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
I thought the national animal of Scotland was a closeted gay male? - North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.
- Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
Damn, I didn't know she's that old! - The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur — you know, dinosaur pee — is almost 100%.
I'm never drinking water again.
69: The "ueue" in "queue" is silent.
No, only the "eue" is silent. But that doesn't apply to French anyway where the spelling makes perfect sense phonetically. - And so is the "ea" in "tea.".
I see. You're claiming we only pronounce queue & tea by the first letter. I find this specious and need proof. - Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
Nasty.
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- "umop apisdn" is "upside down" spelled upside down with different letters of the alphabet.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(November 24, 2020 08:01 AM)
No. I've always been open with Hep about what I think. He also grew up in a small rural town. I'm talking about every other gay Scottish guy I've met online.
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Margo — 5 years ago(November 24, 2020 11:47 AM)
Lame ass topic.
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