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[Copaman]

Cus' when cats fall out of trees they arent like 10 m up, just 3 or so.

And when they start to fall, they'll automatically flip themselves over. It's fun to watch.

[Jeeves]

From a really small drop they don't have time to flip, and get injured.
From further, they're fine.
From further, they have time to notice they're falling, tense up, and snap.
From further, they notice that they're falling, but nothing happened, so relax again.
From further, they panic, relax, then reach a critical speed for impact and go splat.
I think the middle injury bit is between 7 and 12 floors of manhattan appartment, but I could be wrong.

[Dirt]

2-7 = severe injury, 7-23 fine, 24+ = dead meat.

[Jeeves]

For the record, I'm against people throwing cats out their windows at any floor

[Dirt]

If you hold a cat by the head/ear and spin around the diameter of the circle will be 2.50 metres

Who wants to spin anyway? All the cats watching nearby would runaway in fear .

[user_unknown]

2-7 = severe injury, 7-23 fine, 24+ = dead meat.

Nope, as long as their air holds out they'll be fine. There is a report of a cat being thrown out of a Cessna at 244 metres and it survived...

If you hold a cat by the head/ear and spin around the diameter of the circle will be 2.50 metres

Ah, so a handy test if there is room to swing a cat

If you like this sort of thing, watch QI! Best show ever! (or get the QI Book of General Ignorance from Amazon)

[Dirt]

My friend's cat died.

But its old

[user_unknown]

Old cats probably aren't so useful for tests. I suppose they might have a heart attack on the way down. Or something.

[Joe]

So we chuck a newborn out of the window, infront of the mother!!!!

[Dirt]

No, its too cute

But i'm too violent

[olli]

an octopuses testicles are in its head!

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

An Octopus has 3 hearts!

A whale's penis is called a dork...carful how you call a dork next time!

After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.

Edited by olli, 17 January 2007 - 08:50 PM.

[Razgriz_1]

Holy shitaki mushrooms

[Soul]

If you eat lots of blueberries it can help keep a mans thing from going limp.

Edit: I wasn't sure how to word the above fact right .

Edited by Forgotten_Soul, 21 January 2007 - 07:02 PM.

[Cossack]

A pigs orgasm can last up to 30 minutes.

I wish I were a pig

[Ash]

No. You REALLY don't.


Here's one for ya. Trying to defeat an ingrown toenail is a long-ass battle...

[Cossack]

Its all in the technique of toenail cutting. If you cut back too far your almost guaranteed to get an ingrown toenail, its best to keep your toenails kinda long and just wear big shoes. Though some people seem to naturally get ingrowns no matter what they do....

[Jeeves]

Everything can be destroyed somehow

[olli]

NUKE IT!

[Rawlo]

cockroaches and scorpions (among other insects) have one central nerves system (brain) for each pair of legs.

millipedes do not infact of 1000 legs

each human eye has a small 'brain' of it's own with which it processes the images before sending them to the true brain

the largest recorded cancer was discovered in a women s womb and was aproximately the size of the average new born child when it was removed

if an arachnid (maybe other instects as well, not sure) gets too large it suficates due to the way it breaths (absorbs air through the skin)

a turtle can breath through it's anus

certain pain killers activate the same areas of the brain as canibus and can be used to cover up the use of drugs in which it is the active chemical.

Eating chocolate (iirc) triggers the release of the same hormones in the brain as having sex

plastic when it touches your skin releases artificial eastrogen which can cause cancer (obviously natural eastrogen doesn't do this)

the most active volcano on the planet is off the coast of itally

the most commonly taugh dialect of spanish is latin american despite the fact that it is not the dialect used in spain.

french fries are not infact french

hamburgers where not invented in hamburg

and at the high of his power, bill gates had enough money to either spend 16 million every day for the rest of his life, and the lifetimes of atleast another 2 generations, or give every person on earth more then $150 american

light from the surface of the sun takes aproximately 8 hours to reach earth.

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hows that for a lot of facts?

Edited by Rawlo, 28 January 2007 - 01:44 AM.

[user_unknown]

each human eye has a small 'brain' of it's own with which it processes the images before sending them to the true brain

and at the high of his power, bill gates had enough money to either spend 1 million dollars american every second for the rest of his life, and the lifetimes of atleast another 2 generations, or give every person on earth more then $1000 american

light from the surface of the sun takes aproximately 8 hours to reach earth.

OK, those are just wrong.

Firstly, light takes 8 minutes to travel from sun to Earth

Secondly, Bill Gates did not have anything like that much money. If what you said was true, after an hour he would already have spent $3.6 billion dollars, after a day $86.4 billion, etc. etc. Also, to give everyone on the planet $1000 dollars would be (depending on year) somewhere between $5000/6000 billion. Also unlikely.

Finally, The eye doesn't have a 'brain' as such; the retina does possess a limited processing ability but it's really only limited to determining the light intensity by detecting the electrical field produced by on the top layer, the rest of the work is done by the primary visual cortex at the rear of the head.

And I'm sceptical about a few of the others too...

Edited by user_unknown, 27 January 2007 - 12:37 AM.