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Ok some of these are funy and one may just of put me off chocalate for life.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

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

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

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

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

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

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
 
damn I want to be a snail.

thanks for posting, desolate_soul; I feel smarter just for reading them, truly.
 
Ok eating 8 spiders whilst asleep in your lifetime...eeewwww. And chocolate...suddenly my diet is going a lot easier.🙂
 
It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but
dogs only have about ten.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left
hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

All polar bears are left handed.

The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.

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

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than

all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

25% Of Americans Have Internet Access.

13 People A Year Are Killed By Vending Machines
Falling Over On Them.

22,000 Checks Will Be Deducted From The Wrong
Account Over The Next Hour.

50% Of Bank Robberies Take Place On Friday.

60% Of Electrocutions Take Place While Talking
On The Phone During A Thunderstorm.

200 Babies are Born Worldwide Every Minute.

A Skunks Scent Can Be Detected By A Human Over A Mile Away.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

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.

It is physically impossible
for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.

Horses can't vomit.

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.
If you keep your eyes open by force,
they CAN pop out.

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.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.

Over 75% of people who read this
will try to lick their elbow.
 
Did you know...

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes?

The word STEWEARDESS is the longest word that can be written left-handed.

And here's a real cool one!!!
That Buffy The Vampire Slayer was originally a movie in 1992 but SMG did not play Buffy!!! ::Gasp::

((hah just kidding like we all didn't know that)) ;-)
 
LOL! I did try and lick my elbow, and succeded! Honestly, i do have a very long tounge!

Double Post (next time use the edit button!):

Found some facts about animals:

Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.

Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.

Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.

Deer can't eat hay.

Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.

On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.

There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.

Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.

Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.

Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.

A British medical journal called The Practitioner has determined that bird watching can be hazardous to one's health. They have officially designated bird watching a hazardous activity, using the example of the death of a bird watcher who became so wrapped up in watching a particular bird that he failed to notice his potentially dangerous surroundings and was eaten by a crocodile.

Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers.

Mediterranean divers, before the Middle Ages, used to gather the golden strands of the pen shell, using them to weave a very fine cloth for the purpose of making womens' gloves. The cloth was so fine, in fact, that a pair of these gloves could be packed into an empty walnut shell, or anything of comparable volume.

Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food.

Baby songbirds seem to learn how to sing from the adult birds of their species, and if they are raised by other species, they don't sing the same as their ancestors. They often make strange warbling noises, but may also learn the songs of other species. In the latter case, they can pass these songs on to their offspring.

Giraffes can't cough.

Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.

The Japanese quail has many values to the people who live in the areas it habitates. They are used for their song, their eggs, their uses as fighting cocks, for their meat, and are carried around in cold weather in South china to keep one's hands warm.

All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature.

The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.

The March Hare from Alice In Wonderland portrays the actual antics of real hares during springtime, when they jump around and hit their large hind feet on the ground.

Some species of dinosaur were the size of chickens.

Birds cannot go into outer space, because they use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so they'd quickly choke and die in a non-gravity environment.

The Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion lived in Memphis, Tennessee.

Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.

Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals, surprisingly. They come a close second only to primates. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like a dog.

Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.

The average giraffe has a blood pressure two or three times that of the average human.

Some birds from the rain forests of South America actually breed in Canada in the summer, before returning south for the winter.

The giant Pacific octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.

More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.

Penguins generally mate once and produce one egg per year.

The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.

You can house break an armadillo.

Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

Greyhound dogs can see better than any other breed of dog.

The opossum is a North American mammal about the size of a cat. It looks much like an over sized rat. In fact, one type of opossum is actually called the rat opossum. What's most interesting about opossums is how it reacts to predators: if it can't escape and hissing and showing its teeth do not scare off the predator, they pretend to die. The thing is, it's not doing this because it wants to; it can't really control it. Its muscles tighten up in fear and it faints.

The giant tortoise can live longer in captivity than any other animal.

The pekingese is the royal dog of China.

Snakes don't bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.

St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 10 thousand years.

The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.

In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.

The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.

Finches love thistle seeds. But only goldfinches can eat upside-down. Goldfinch feeders have openings underneath perches so other birds can't elbow their way into that particular chow line.

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.

A crocodile really does produce tears, but they're not due to sadness. The tears are glandular secretions that work to expel excess salt from the eyes. Hence, "crocodile tears" are false tears.

Ergonomic waterbeds are the latest must-have on the bovine circuit. The beds, listing at $175, are said to enhance cattle health by reducing joint damage.

A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.

The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months.

78% of cats never travel with their owner.

To a human, one giant octopus looks virtually the same as any other of the same size and species. This explains why divers claim to have seen the same octopus occupy a den for ten or more years. But an octopus seldom lives longer than four years.

September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.

The world camel population is 19,627,000.

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
 
That cancer thing with the shark and ray is interesting.
Maybe they can use that info for the future?
I hope they find a cure.

Here's another one:

A person on average in the world spends most of their time talking on the telephone for about 874.2 Billion microseconds.
 
I found some Buffy Facts and thought id post them here:
Some are goofs as well.

Sarah Michelle Gellar auditioned for the role of Cordelia and read over 17 times until she got the part of Buffy.

Seth Green was in a scene in the original Buffy movie. It ended up on the cutting room floor.

Sarah Michelle Gellar & Anthony Stewert Head both appeared on Spenser, for Hire in 1986.

Sarah has a rabbit named Harley and a Maltese named Thor and a cat.

James Marsters once ran his own film company.

David Boreanaz has a dog named Bertha Blue.

Charisma Carpenter was a San Diego Charger Cheerleader.

Nicholas Brendon has a twin brother named Kelly.

Alyson Hannigan's favorite movie is "Toy Story" written by the creator of Buffy, Joss Whedon.

Nicholas Brendon used to have his navel pierced, but had to take it out for unknow reasons.

Alyson Hannigan and Sarah Michelle Gellar both have tatoos. Alyson has tribal dolphins on her ankle and a Japenese kanji on her lower back. Sarah has one on her back of the chinese symbol for integrity, and one on her ankle of the hindu symbol for integrity.

Armin Shimerman originally auditioned for the role of Principal Flutie, but for some reason he didn't get the part.

Buffy was turned into a rat in the episode "Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered" so that Sarah could have time off from filming to fly to New York to host Saturday Night Live.

Two baby seals at Sea World in Los Angeles are named Xander and Buffy.

The hold of the plane that Kendra arrived on was later turned upside down and used as a sewer tunnel.

David Boreanaz & Nicholas Brenden both had roles on Married...with Children in 1993.

All of the actor's shoes on the show have rubber soles to reduce the amount of noise that might be picked up while shooting.

Seth Green & Robia LaMorte have both appeared on Beverly Hills, 90210.

Sarah, Alyson, & Charisma all wear the same shoe size.

We see in the episode 'Angel' that Willow keeps a picture in her locker of Giles and herself.

Juliet Landau & Seth Green both were in the 1990 Christian Slater movie, Pump up the Volume.

Juliet Landau & Robin Sachs (Ethan Rayne) were in a movie together in 1997, called Ravager.

Sarah´s cat is named Cujo, and is white and red in color. David´s second dog is called Fritz. His dogs get a steak every Wednesday says Cosmopolitan. And Amber Benson´s Dalmatine is called Pennsylvannia.

The guy who played Lothos' sidekick in the Buffy movie, is the same guy who played Pee Wee Herman.

In the book "Blooded", Buffy and Willow's math teacher is named Miss Hannigan.

Ms. Calenders name was originally Nicki, but was changed to Jenny to avoid confusion with 'Nicky' Brendon.

It takes eight days to film a one hour episode of 'Buffy'.

All the books in the orginal Sunnydal High School library are real books.

The Factory set was torn down to make room for the mansion set on a Buffy soundstage.

A 30 second advertising spot during Buffy costs $76,000

An episode of Buffy costs $1.4 million to create.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was almost called "Slayer."

The Master's pre-vampire name was Heinrich Joseph Nest.

The character Oz was inspired by a guy that Joss Whedon went to college with.

Cordelia was named after a really mean girl Joss Whedon's wife went to school with.

Angel's duster cost $1000.00 and Spike's cost $1600.00. That still doesn't tell us where they get all their money.

The high school that 'Buffy' is filmed at is the same one that 'Beverly Hills, 90210' was filmed at.

Joss Whedon has admitted that the character of Xander is actually based on himself.

The dusting effect you see whenever a vampire is staked costs $5,000 per vampire.

While Sunnydale, CA doesn't exist, there is a Sunnyvale, CA.

In "I Robot...You Jane" Moloch looks under the record of Buffy on the computer. Then he sends the record to Fritz and it appears on Fritz's computer screen (a computer geek and a student). For Date of Birth, it says Buffy was born in 1979, but on Buffy's gravestone in "The Gift" and in "Bargaining Parts 1 + 2" it says she was born in 1981 (1981-2001). And remember, she turned 20 in Season 5...So she was really born in 1981 and the producers made an error of putting her DOB as 1979.

Season One

In "The Witch", when Willow fills the test tube with the yellow liquid in science class the test tube is filled half way but in the next shot, as she hands the test tube to Buffy, the test tube is filled only a quarter of the way.

In "Teacher's Pet" Miss French is making herself a sandwich her sleeves are rolled up to her elbows but in the next shot, the close-up as she puts the bugs on her sandwich, her sleeves are down to her wrists and in the following shot her sleeves return to being rolled up at her elbows.

In "I Robot, You Jane", the guy working for the Moloch demon opens Buffy's school records, and under 'Status', it says that Buffy is a senior at the high school. That's wrong. In the first season, Buffy is a sophomore.

In "The Puppet Show" when Xander made Sid go 'redrum, redrum', it wasn't in the script, Nicky ad-libed it.

When Willow ran off the stage during the dramatic performance at the end of "The Puppet Show", it wasn't in the script. Later, in 'Nightmares' we find out one of her biggest fears was being on stage.

After Buffy is killed by the Master in "Prophecy Girl", she falls in the pool of water and her hair is up and her arms are under her. But when Angel and Xander find her her hair is down and her arms are by her sides. Amazing considering she is unconcious throughout.




Season Two

In "When She Was Bad", the ritual to bring the master back to life involves the masters bones. But how could that be if vampires turn to dust when they die?

In "School Hard" when Buffy is dancing with Willow and Xander, Spike says that he is going to call the police because there is someone outside trying to bite a girl's neck and Buffy runs outside, Spike has no jacket on. Then when he is outside, he has one on.
In "Halloween" when Giles is talking to Ethan and Giles tells Willow to go, you can hear the door clearly shut, but Willow has been turned into a ghost, so she can't touch anything.

In "The Dark Age," Buffy's microphone is clearly showing.
In "The Dark Ages" when Giles is calling everyone involved in the Eyghon thing, he crosses out the girl's name and puts his glasses down near the notebook. then the camera zooms in on the list of names and the glasses are on top of the notebook.

In "What's my Line part 1", when Buffy and Kendra are fighting, Kendra throws Buffy into a table and the table breaks.But in the next shot, the pieces table are gone.Where did they go?
During "Suprise" you see Angel in pain in bed - Nude, then all of the sudden he has underwear on, then he mysteriously runs outside FULLY clothed & falls down in the rain and is SOAKING wet...then when he bites the woman's neck...he's mysteriously "dry".

In "Innocence", first Buffy has no nail polish on, then she gets up & leaves Angel's bed & suddenly she has nail polish on.
In "Innocence", when Angel comes into Jenny's Uncle's room, he just walks in...Doesn't a vampire have to be invited??

In "Innocence", when they are all in the mall, there is a shot of Drusilla sitting on the floor where she has quite a definite reflection in the shiny pillar thing behind her. I thought vampires didn't cast a reflection....?

In "Phases", Willow runs into the library right after running away from Oz the werewolf. When she comes in Giles isn't wearing any glasses, next shot glasses, next shot no glasses, then again glasses.
Also in "Phases", while Willow was running away from Oz the werewolf she falls then the hunter guys come and she runs off with dirt on her overalls. But when she leaves the library with Buffy and Giles, there isn't one speck of dirt on her.

Giles' car had some trouble starting in the episode "Phases", for the scene in which Buffy and Giles approach the Bronze. So, the crew recruited a couple extras to help push the car as if it were being driven towards the camera. If you watch carefully, you can see the tops of their heads through the car's rear window.



Season Three

In "Anne" when Buffy climbs up the chain, she is wearing Ked-like sneakers, then when she lifts the gate and leaves she is wearing Nike like sneakers.

When Faith asks Buffy in "Faith, Hope and Trick" what her toughest kill was, she remembers killing Angel, then tries to answer by saying, "Do you guys remember the Three?" I realize she's trying to come up with something to avoid telling the truth, but this is an extremely poor choice. She didn't kill the Three! They offered their own lives to the Master as penance for failing to kill Buffy, and Darla performed the honors.

When the vampire versions of Willow and Xander in "The Wish" have finished sucking Cordelia's blood they just throw her dead body aside but when it hits the floor it makes no sound!

In "Consquences", after the box falls on Buffy she becomes stuck and tries to free herself at this point she is lying down on her back and Faith is being attacked by a group of vampires. In the next shot however you see Buffy sitting up in the backround watching Faith fight. The next shot shows Buffy lying on the ground trying to free herself again

In "Earshot", when Buffy sees Jonathan in the clock tower, the clock says something like 12:40. When she climbs up and jumps in the tower window, the clock says something like 12:15. So what time is it again?

At "The Prom" in the scene where Wesley and Giles are sampling chips, Wesley is holding a red napkin, but when he ogles at Cordelia, we get a new shot of him and his napkin is now yellow.

Double Post (next time use the edit button!):

Season Four

In "The Initiative", Spike tells Willow that he is only 126 years old in the scene where he tries to bite her. But when he arrived in Sunnydale during season two, Giles had told the gang that he was barely 200 years old. Talk about lying about your age.

During the Indian attack in "Pangs", Spike is shot several times by arrows, but when they all sit down to dinner afterwards, there are no holes in his shirt.

During "A New Man", Giles is sitting alone and Willow comes over and offers him a bit of cake which he accepts. In the next shot, Buffy and Riley come over and Giles has no cake so Buffy sends Riley to get a piece. Where did the first piece go because there wasn't enough time to eat it.

In "Goodbye Iowa", Buffy finds Riley's hand is bleeding and she takes off her headband to press the wound with it. While she and Riley are talking, there are switch-off shots between them, and in one one shot, Buffy's headband is back on, then it's off.

In "This Years Girl", at the scene where we see the gang walking through the forrest and they're about to see the demon with his stomach ripped open we can see the sound man in the background holding the sound mike and trying to move out of view.

Season Five

In "Real Me", during the scene where Willow and Tara are in their dorm room and talking about Dawn, the boom mike is seen just poking in from the top of the screen.

In "I Was Made to Love You", when we see Glory transforming into Ben, look at the bottom of the screen and she appears to be wearing a gold strapless dress. But when she has turned into Ben, Ben looks at himself and says 'Oh god' and he's wearing a red strapless dress.

In "The Weight of the World", Willow goes inside Buffy's mind to snap her out of her catatonic state. While there, she sees Buffy as a little girl with blond hair. However, in the episode "Killed By Death" in season 2, we see Buffy as a little girl, and she has dark brown hair. So, what is her real hair color?

Season Six

At the beginning of "Afterlife", Buffy's knuckles are bloody because she fought her way out of her coffin. But at the end of the episode, when we see her hugging Dawn, her hands are perfectly clean and healed.

In "Tabula Rasa", Spike is falls under Willow's spell, and passes out on the magic shop counter. But in the next cut, he's lying straight across the counter, arms under his head, as if he simply fell asleep there. How could he do that if he suddenly just passed out?

When Buffy decides to play a cruel prank on that social services lady in "Gone" she starts typing on her computer saying 'All work and no play make Doris a dull girl'. But if you look closely, Buffy never once hits the 'A' key.
 
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