Facts: Bet you didn't know this...

pinku_ · **on:** March 18, 2009, 06:51:19 AM

Any general knowledge stuff you think that not a lot of people know and are interesting enough to know, post it here.

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

--- food that doesn't spoil = honey (you can still eat the honey in a jar that is over 1500 years old)

--- It is impossible to lick your elbows... ( and everyone who read this will be tempted to try )

post them up!

HarZy · **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:56:49 AM

Your eyes can pop out if you sneeze while your eyes are open.

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2009, 12:28:51 PM

Cinnamon is good for people who have Diabetes.
Hot peppers boost your metabolism and help burn sugars.
The song Delilah by Queen was about Freddie's cat by the same name.

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:33:49 PM

Quote from: pinku_ on March 18, 2009, 06:51:19 AM

--- It is impossible to lick your elbows... ( and everyone who read this will be tempted to try )

post them up!

I bet Gene Simmons could!!!

pinku_ · **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:02:19 AM

Ryo who is Gene Simmons? lol...
Ami --- wow that is some math... I'm like @.@

another one:

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:50:52 AM

Quote from: pinku_ on March 19, 2009, 04:02:19 AM

Ryo who is Gene Simmons? lol...
Ami --- wow that is some math... I'm like @.@

another one:

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"

Gene Simmons is the bassist/vocals/backup vocals for the band KISS. His tongue is a reported 7 inches long

Yu~Kun · **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2009, 06:55:02 AM

Quote from: pinku_ on March 18, 2009, 06:51:19 AM

--- It is impossible to lick your elbows... ( and everyone who read this will be tempted to try )

*guilty*

xD

pinku_ · **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:57:41 AM

three from me :

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King. When anyone wanted to have a
baby, they got consent of the King & the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were
having sex. The placard had F.U.C.K. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from!!!!

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour (diet... anyone?)

The most dangerous piece of household furniture is the bed - causing over 100,000 injuries every year.

@.@ I wonder why?

Sander · **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:55:53 AM

Quote from: pinku_ on March 19, 2009, 07:57:41 AM

@.@ I wonder why?

Ever heard the word 'kamasutra'?

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:14:20 AM

Kopi Luwak is a coffee made of the feces of the Civet cat. The cat eats the beans, well I think you get the idea. It's the most expensive coffee in the world

pinku_ · **Reply #10 on:** March 24, 2009, 02:10:30 AM

Ami's post on the three questions made me post this list of phobias... Some of these you may already know, some might be new --- and some will surprise you. It is quite interesting to know though --- if you know other kinds of phobias, just add them to this list.

A

* Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
* Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
* Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
* Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
* Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
* Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
* Androphobia - Fear of men.
* Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking.
* Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
* Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
* Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
* Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
* Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
* Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightening.
* Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
* Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
* Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
* Autophobia - Fear of being alone.
* Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
* Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
* Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
* Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
* Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.

B

* Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
* Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
* Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
* Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
* Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles.
* Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
* Botanophobia - Fear of plants.

C

* Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
* Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
* Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
* Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
* Chromophobia - Fear of colors.
* Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
* Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
* Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
* Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
* Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
* Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
* Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
* Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
* Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
* Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.
* Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.

D

* Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
* Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
* Domatophobia - Fear of houses.
* Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.
* Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
* Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
* Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
* Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
* Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity

E

* Ecophobia - Fear of the home.
* Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
* Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
* Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
* Equinophobia - Fear of horses.
* Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
* Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
* Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
* Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
* Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.

F

* Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
* Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
* Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture.

G

* Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
* Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
* Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public.
* Gynophobia - Fear of women.
* Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.
* Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
* Genophobia - Fear of sex.
* Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
* Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity.

H

* Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
* Hemophobia - Fear of blood.
* Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
* Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
* Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars.
* Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.
* Hormephobia - Fear of shock.
* Homichlophobia - Fear of fog.
* Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.
* Hominophobia - Fear of men.
* Hydrophobia - Fear of water.

I

* Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors.
* Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
* Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.
* Ideophobia - Fear of ideas.
* Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
* Iophobia - Fear of poison

J

* Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese.
* Judeophobia - Fear of Jews.

K

* Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
* Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule.
* Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down.
* Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.
* Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue.
* Koniophobia - Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
* Kosmikophobia - Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
* Kymophobia - Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
* Kynophobia - Fear of rabies.
* Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping

L

* Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
* Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth.
* Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.
* Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
* Limnophobia - Fear of lakes.
* Linonophobia - Fear of string.
* Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits.

M

* Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
* Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
* Microphobia - Fear of small things.
* Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.
* Misophobia or Mysophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
* Mnemophobia - Fear of memories.
* Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia - Fear of dirt or contamination.
* Monophobia - Fear of solitude or being alone.
* Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease.
* Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles.
* Mottephobia - Fear of moths.
* Musophobia or Muriphobia - Fear of mice.

N

* Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
* Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
* Novercaphobia - Fear of your step-mother.
* Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons.
* Nudophobia - Fear of nudity.
* Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.
* Nephophobia - Fear of clouds.
* Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.

O

* Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight.
* Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
* Ombrophobia - Fear of rain.
* Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
* Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
* Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
* Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
* Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
* Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
* Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.

P

* Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
* Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
* Pedophobia - Fear of children.
* Philophobia - Fear of love.
* Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
* Podophobia - Fear of feet.
* Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.
* Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
* Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
* Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.
* Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
* Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

R

* Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
* Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
* Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
* Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
* Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.

S

* Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
* Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
* Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
* Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
* Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
* Scotophobia- Fear of darkness.
* Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
* Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
* s Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes.
* Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
* Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
* s Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
* Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex.
* Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
* Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
* Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts.
* Spermatophobia - Fear of germs.
* Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
* Stasibasiphobia - Fear of standing or walking.
* Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
* Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places.
* Stygiophobia - Fear of hell.
* Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
* Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
* Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
* Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.

T

* Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
* Technophobia - Fear of technology.
* Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
* Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
* Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
* Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
* Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.
* Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
* Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres.
* Theologicophobia- Fear of theology.
* Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.
* Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
* Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
* Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.
* Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
* Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.

U

* Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.
* Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.

V

* Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
* Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
* Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
* Verbophobia- Fear of words.
* Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
* Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
* Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.

W

* Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.
* Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.

X

* Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.
* Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
* Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
* Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
* Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.

Z

* Zoophobia - Fear of animals.
* Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
* Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
* Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2009, 03:35:29 AM

Quote from: pinku_ on March 24, 2009, 02:10:30 AM

Ami's post on the three questions made me post this list of phobias... Some of these you may already know, some might be new --- and some will surprise you. It is quite interesting to know though --- if you know other kinds of phobias, just add them to this list.

A
** Ailurophobia - Fear of Cats

pinku_ · **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:45:48 PM

Quote from: Ami on March 24, 2009, 11:11:12 AM

perhaps not quoting the whole thing? it's pretty long
very funny though XD
Dutchphobia had me cracking up... hehe

AND so does JAPANOPHOBIA @.@ weirddddddddddd....

Ba-DiL · **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2009, 01:15:48 PM

I'm definitely not a venustraphobia XDD

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2009, 12:27:42 AM

Triskaidekaphobia - The fear of the number 13. There are many places that do not number areas with this number.. Universal Studios and I think Paramount do not have a Sound stage 13. I know that from when I visited Universal.

Anyone else know places that do not use the number 13

Oh- Apollo 13 was supposed to land on the moon on April 13th, 1970.

Titanic allegedly received ice warnings as early as April 13, 1912
At 1345 on the 14th her crew was warned of a major ice field in their path, but due to the fact the Marconi wireless radio operators were only paid to pass messages for passengers, they were somewhat ignored.

( and stranger yet... my cousin was born on April 14th....)

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2009, 01:12:10 AM

Here is something Titanic related- She didn't just hit the iceberg on her starboard side, she grounded on it as well. New dives from the Russian ship http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/vessels/keldysh/keldysh.html had found evidence of the double walled keel plates had been peeled away.

pinku_ · **Reply #16 on:** March 25, 2009, 01:16:08 AM

An exocannibal eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends. ( @ . @ )

On New Year's Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people.

Napoleon reportedly carried chocolate on all his military campaigns.

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #17 on:** March 25, 2009, 01:54:09 AM

Eating food with poppy seeds in it will cause you to test positive for opiates in a drug UA, (maybe even blood draw as well)

Ba-DiL · **Reply #18 on:** March 25, 2009, 08:23:04 AM

If you put 'mentos' (you know this candy, aren't you?) into a can of Coca-cola, the cola will explode ..! and it can cause death if you eat+drink those things together ...

HarZy · **Reply #19 on:** March 25, 2009, 09:17:58 AM

Quote from: Ba-DiL on March 25, 2009, 08:23:04 AM

If you put 'mentos' (you know this candy, aren't you?) into a can of Coca-cola, the cola will explode ..! and it can cause death if you eat+drink those things together ...

That works best with Pepsi Max. XD

Sander · **Reply #20 on:** March 25, 2009, 10:42:05 AM

Quote from: Ba-DiL on March 25, 2009, 08:23:04 AM

If you put 'mentos' (you know this candy, aren't you?) into a can of Coca-cola, the cola will explode ..! and it can cause death if you eat+drink those things together ...

It will only explode when you manage to close it tightly. It causes big amounts of gas to be released and if you eat+drink those, it probably could rip your stomach and cause internal bleeding. And it works best with diet coca, Mythbusters even explained it

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXPOqovSBs[/youtube]

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #21 on:** March 25, 2009, 01:09:12 PM

I bet you all don't know about http://www.snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/mentos.asp

Sander · **Reply #22 on:** March 25, 2009, 02:09:19 PM

Then go here-

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #23 on:** March 25, 2009, 08:46:12 PM

What's really cool... pour the pixi stick powder into sprite... or even the lic-em-ade

Ryo-Ohki · **Reply #24 on:** March 25, 2009, 08:55:35 PM

There is no such thing as Halloween Poisonings. The whole thing started because some numb-nut killed his son. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp

shane140 · **Reply #25 on:** August 10, 2009, 01:14:48 AM

the longest animal on earth is the bootlace worm

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old

prince charles powers his car by filling it with red wine

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos

you can travel in time by plane well not really, just the time difference but you know what i mean

the earth has 2 moons, the other called cruithne, and many other orbiting non manmade objects

shane140 · **Reply #26 on:** August 11, 2009, 06:40:59 PM

Quote from: Ami on August 10, 2009, 01:40:14 PM

Quote from: shane140 on August 10, 2009, 01:14:48 AM
the earth has 2 moons, the other called cruithne, and many other orbiting non manmade objects
It is called "earth's second moon" but in fact it orbits around the sun, not around the earth.

oh right,thanks for correcting me, heres some more to make up for it

Cornflakes were originally made to stop masturbation.....

The dildo was invented by the Victorian for doctors to use on women as a cure for hysteria!

It's illegal to cross the Illonois boarder with a duck on your head.

In Alaska, it is considered an offense to push a live moose out of an aeroplane - so kill it first!

and... some people can lick their elbows, my friend can

Ranger Nessy · **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2010, 11:09:13 PM

Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.

6% of men propose over the telephone (I wonder how many propose via fax?)

You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making uglyfaces at dogs in Oklahoma. Beware.

It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages. This website is neither.

Also, I can lick elbows...just, er, not my own.