Did You Know........the facts thread

[Damaso]

Originally posted by antne
in megabytes?

how big is flashkit?

In fact, flashkit is bigger than megabytes

[tonytryout]

Did you know that there is more calcuim in skimmed milk than full-fat milk?

When the first American people came from England, they wanted to be different. They created a sport (american football) and called it football to mock the english. They then called it Soccer, soccer only to see it as a joke because they wear long socks, ie. "Socker." They also created a simple version of cricket and called it baseball.

From a cool book called "Book of Facts and Lists":

1. If all the water in the atmosphere fell as rain at the same time, it would cover the entire surface of the Earth with 2.5cm (1inch to some of you) of water.

2. The largest wheatfield in Alberta, Canada, covered an area of 142sq km (55sq miles). That added up to nearly 20,000 football (soccer to you US) pitches.

3. On the shores of the northern Pacific Ocean, the force of the waves in winter is equivalent to the impact of a car crashing into a wall at 145Km (90miles) an hour. Storm waves on the east coast of North America tossed a 61Kg (135lb) rock 28m (91ft) high -- on to the roof of a lighthouse.

4. If all the salt was taken out of the seas and spread over the land surface of the Earth, there would be a layer of salt 152m (500ft) thick.

5.? forget it -- requests for more, let me know!

Excellent thread, btw, davep.

[aabirnisar]

* Worlds favourite sport Football
* Most densely populated city of the world Seoul
my city karachi is also in the top 10
* World largest city area wise Tokyo
* Smallest Independant Nation Vatican City

will post more
and thought i put this thread back on , it is interesting

and yes one more
depresed people live longer than non-depresed
http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=330697

[Jamez Brown]

You have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut

Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue

An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds

There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

Elephants can't jump.

Your skin weighs about 3.2kg

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Astronauts grow taller (height) in space

Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph

A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%

4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

Marilyn Monroe's real name is Norma Jean.

A mole can dig about 92 metres in 1 night

A snail can sleep for three years.


I am the Facts master!!

[aabirnisar]

some interesting facts james . sure u r a fact master

Ok Some Highest Peak of the world (Above 8000 Metres)

1. Mount Everest Nepal 29,035 ft. 8,850 m.
2. K2 Pakistan 28,250 ft. 8,611 m.
3. Kangchenjunga Nepal/India 28,169 ft. 8,586 m.
4. Lhotse Nepal 27,920 ft. 8,501 m.
5. Makalu Nepal 27,765 ft. 8,462 m.
6. Cho Oyu Nepal 26,906 ft. 8,201 m.
7. Dhaulagiri Nepal 26,794 ft. 8,167 m.
8. Manaslu Nepal 26,758 ft. 8,156 m.
9. Nanga P***** Pakistan 26,658 ft. 8,125 m.
10. Annapurna Nepal 26,545 ft. 8,091 m.
11. Gasherbrum I Pakistan 26,470 ft. 8,068 m.
12. Broad Peak Pakistan 26,400 ft. 8,047 m.
13. Gasherbrum II Pakistan 26,360 ft. 8,035 m.
14. Shisha Pangma Nepal/Tibet 26,289 ft. 8,013 m.

8 in Nepal & 5 in Pakistan (My land)

and i think there are 80 peaks or so above 7000 M in Pakistan Only .

[Pure_Morning]

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

Yeah but who was holding the camera that filmed him?

1. Most lipstick contains fish scales!
2. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
3. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
4. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
5.The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
6. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

(taken from http://sbt.bhmedia.com/)

[jamble]

Originally posted by Jamez Brown
Elephants can't jump.

I believe they're also the only mammal with 4 knees.

A snail can sleep for three years.

So could my housemate I think

[Jamez Brown]

I think i could sleep for 3 years to

[aevium]

if an average post on flashkit was 500 bytes(the average post is actually 493 bytes), all the posts on flashkit would equal 660 megabytes.

[Damaso]

U.S. Presidential Facts

•John Quincy Adams was the only president to serve in Congress.
•Martin Van Buren was the first president born in the new United States.
•James Buchanan was the only bachelor president.
•James Garfield was the first left-handed president.
•William Taft was the largest president at 6 feet 2 inches tall and 326 pounds.
•James Madison was the shortest president at 5 feet 4 inches.
•Theodore Roosevlet was the youngest president at 42 years old.
•Ronald Reagan was the oldest leaving office at 77 years old.
•Herbert Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi.
•John F. Kennedy was the first president born in the 20th century. (May 29, 1917)
•John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826.
•John Quincy Adams swam daily in the Potomac River.
•John Taylor was the first to become president through death of the current president.
•William Henry Harrison died one month after delivering the longest inaugural speech at 1 hour 45 minutes.
•Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.
•Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
•James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other simultaneously.
•Benjamin Harrison was the only grandson of a president to become president.
•The teddy bear was named for Theodore Roosevelt because he refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting.
•Woodrow Wilson kept sheep to trim the White House lawn.
•At 4 terms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to more terms than any other president.
•Richard Nixon was the only president to resign.
•Gerald Ford was the only president not elected into office.
•Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.

[va]

fault, sorry....

[aabirnisar]

was kinda bore so thought to bump this thread up and know bout more facts , well from me some rich nations of the world (GDP in $)
US - 9.8 trillion
Japan - 4.8 trillion
UK - 1.2 t
China - 1.1 t
Canada - 687.9 billion
India - 457 billion
Australia - 390 b
Pakistan - 61.6 b

check yours here

Bill gate alone owns $30.93 Billion <- current exact numbers as of 16:00 on 08/14/02 , Microsoft was selling for $49.705 bill has 622,321,300 shares of MSFT . well interesting to me

[little_funksta]

No word in the english language rhymes with month, orange,silver, or purple.


purple-turtle that ryhmes to me

[Genesis F5]

You can't fart and sneeze at the same time...

There will always be a little delay. I'm guessing that it's your bodies natural way of preventing your lungs from turning inside out.....

-genesis f5

-(I don't know why I posted this now... but at the time.. it was pretty funny picturing someone doing that)

[Ed Mack]

Did you know that if you stap buttered toast (buttered side out) to the back of a cat and drop it from a really heigh place, the cat will start to hover 3/4 the way down and never hit the ground?

[aabirnisar]

ed mack already posted this one yes i m reading this thread , all those 6 pages


[Edited by aabirnisar on 08-15-2002 at 03:43 AM]

[nightwish]

Facts:
---> An Ostrich eye is bigger than its brain ( I know people like that)
---> If you shout for 8 years 9 months and 6 days you produce enough energy to warm a cup of cofee...
---> A roach could live without its head for 9 days before starving to death
--->