Things To Think About

Feel free to post any paradoxs or any weird riddles you may have here

Mine -

If you pull on your shoe laces with a force greater than that of your weight, it is possible to hover above the ground. Feel free to give it a try (you'll need strong shoe laces)

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

'Typewrite' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

Nothing rhymes with orange.[sillyme]

The longest recorded flight of a domestic chicken is 13 seconds.

The average major league career of a baseball is 5 to 7 pitches.

About 22% of the earth's original forest coverage remains. Western Europe has lost 98% or so of its primary forests; Asia 94%; Africa 92%; Oceania 78%; North America 66%, and South America 54%. Approximately 45% of the world's tropical forests, originally covering 1.4 billion hectares, have disappeared in the last few decades. (taken from a Greenpeace website, but the figures are accurate to the best of my knowledge)

The word "weird" is mis-spelled as "wierd" on almost 200,000 publically-available web pages on the Internet. Phonically, it makes more sense to spell it this way, since "i.e." is pronounced as "ee" in Germanic languages, of which English is an example.

The world's longest street is located in Canada. Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,900 kilometers/1,190 miles from the shores of Lake Ontario past Lake Superior.

Every 3 seconds a person dies from having a baby

It's impossible to lick you're elbow and you're armspan is how tall you are

Originally posted by Monty

It's impossible to lick you're elbow and you're armspan is how tall you are

almost 75% of people try to lick their albow when they hear that...did you?

Im not going to lie...I tried, actually I tried more than once...

tried when i was 7 and my parents caught me using kitchen tongs trying to stretch my tounge...I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed LOL

Originally posted by PumpMeUp


The world's longest street is located in Canada. Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,900 kilometers/1,190 miles from the shores of Lake Ontario past Lake Superior.

yay, I can see that road from my house

Yay!...

andddd, I have driven its entire length! Not fun!

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Fornication Nation

'Typewrite' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

er ... surely 'Typewriter' is longer?


quote:
Originally posted by Monty

"It's impossible to lick you're elbow and you're armspan is how tall you are"

Thats wrong, I can indeed lick my own elbow and if I had my camera I'd prove it to you, but I don't so you'll just have to believe me . Alot of people also seem to think its impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze ......... again, thats wrong, I can keep my eyes open when I sneeze, infact I find that more comfortable than closing them. I am a weird child you see, I can put my legs behing my head, fold my tongue, fold my tongue into a 'W' shape, pop my shoulders out of their joints, roll my eyes into my head, make one eye move while the other stays still, bend my legs backwards and touch the back of my head with my feet .... etc etc I'm a freak of nature [:P]

However, going back to the topic, most people appear to have missed the point of Edges post, you seem to be posting seemingly strange facts, whereas Edge asked you to post strange questions [:)]

Heres mine (A very obvious one):

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make any noise? bla bla bla

Its near impossible to take a picture of the stars with a regular camera

This one is for the gals out there who may be trying to grow their hair long like me:

It takes approximately one year for your hair to grow 12 inches in length. This varies depending on heredity and genetics. Most people never know how long their hair can get because of regular hair cuts and such, but generally speaking an average woman can grow her hair to be about three feet in length. Again, this varies depending on heredity and genetics because some can achieve lengths even longer than that. [;)]

*A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

*Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie.

I think Gouldy will rush to Russia now. He loves pie soo much!

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Matt

I think Gouldy will rush to Russia now. He loves pie soo much!

well yah, but I'm sure as its birthday pie, its probably fruit pie, which just you know, thats just normal and not so great. Its savoury, meat pies I like! [:)]

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by Matt

I think Gouldy will rush to Russia now. He loves pie soo much!

don't forget me, i usually eat half a pie with my birthday...