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It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow!!

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour.

(as far as I understand we're supposed to share rare facts with one another here...)

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.---- creepy

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years – but so does winter.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

LOL!!! that's weird :))))

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
(That is really weird!)

#11 that's gross

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

You consume one tenth (0.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
(Funny))

!!!!

On New Year’s Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people. :)))) good job Roosevelt :D

№ 12 Факт есть факт) Хоть и "gross"...

60 % of statistics are made up...

In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

People born without knee cups.

o_O

say what????

oh this one is good too--> A third of the world’s people live on less than $2 a day, with 1,2 billion people living on less than $1 a day.
I don't think I could live like that :/

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day

what?

Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger. (Накачайся силой мысли)))

I am the walrus

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

1% of the American population has more money than the other 99% combined.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

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

It is impossible to sneeze and keep one’s eyes open at the same time.

Lol I've tried, yup impossible :))))))))

There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates

Actually it's possible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Every year more people are killed by donkeys(!), than in aircraft crashes.

#35 Did you try?)))

The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.

The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990’s.

#37 Yes, now my eyes are rolling around the floor, but it was possible :-D

Olga you know too much

#40 - :D
#41 That's not me, that's Web)))

Olga you are too honest. You should say "Yes I do, I am very clever"

well... I'm clever too... And modest :D

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

#45 that's horrible

#40 Lol :)))))))))))

#47 I'll do anything to prove you wrong :-D

ok :) but why??? for that you are even ready to loose your eyes??? :))))))

#49 Just for something to do. Who needs eyes when you have the power to tell someone they are wrong :-) (by the way it's lose not loose) :-D

Nope, you also may say loose ;)

no you can't, only lose is allowed

Hitler first thought of the blow-up doll

where r u from??

England, what about you?

LA

are you American?

yeah... she's from Los Angeles

that doesn't mean she's American.

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well I am the US citizen

ok I get you. How long have you lived there? All your life?

yup :) what about you???

I'm an Englishman, born in England. Not at all Russian as far as I know :-)

my grandma is russian :))) so.. :)

Andrew, how many russians do you know?

Do you mean that I have met, in this and no other universe?

You have chat with.

chat on the internet? about 6

why do you ask?

and they weren't born / don't live in Russia?

they were born there, and all but one live there. Why are you asking?

because #64)
or I didn't understand you....)

I said I am Englsih. I don't have any Russian blood inside me. Capiche?

oh... now I understand)

:)

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning!!!!!!!

Yeah, if they are thrown at you :-)

#78 Especially if you sleepwalk.

LOL :))))

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
P. S. Don't try to do it, Andrew!))))

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions. %-)

Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)

The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

#83 I tried but I made a mistake and held my nose and eyes instead and my lungs flew out :-(

#84 I was born bald and I am a vegetarian, what does that mean?

#85 Thats why I'm not having kids

#86 I tried to prove that wrong and banged for 10 minutes but my skull started breaking so I stopped :-} (by the way, what kind of a maniac found that out?)

# 91 maybe someone like you, but with stronger skull? )))

#92 are you saying I have a weak skull?

In Oklahoma, it is illegal to make "ugly faces" at dogs.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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

#94 What happens if your face is naturally ugly and you happen to look at a dog? Is that against the law still? Poor guy, gets a fine and he's ugly. The dog gets away scot-free I presume?

#93 'but my skull started breaking so I stopped'))

#96 I won't be surprised, if the US has more Chinese speakers than China))))

#99 I was joking, pretending to be offended.

hah I don't know.Maybe if you have ugly face you mustn't go there.

What are you speaking about? I didn't understand you:)

#100 I guess, that you joked;)))

When cheetah is hungry man can run with speed up to 70 km per hour. And during the marriage period - up to 180 km per hour)))

#102 What exactly didn't you understand? About subject or what?

#104 lol, this applies to human men too. No matter what the species, there is always one thing more important than eating.

#106 Are you saying this also from your own experience??? :]

I can be with you?

#108 what exactly do you mean???

#109
I'm drunk.)))

#110 nice...

Lady Lady
I think you very hot girl))I am right???)

that is NOT your business!!!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains all English letters.

№114 Как это переводится?

Предложение "Быстрая коричневая лиса перепрыгивает ленивую собаку." содержит все буквы английского алфавита.

Ларисочка ღ♥ღ♥ Катаева

а где D ??

#106 of course not :-)

at rest the blood makes a complete circle in our body within 20-25 seconds

#117 "Dog"

Being intoxicated had desirable spiritual significance to the ancient Egyptians. They often gave their children names like "How Drunk is Cheops" or "How Intoxicated is Hathor." :)))))))))))))))

#121 and "Gin and Tonic" or "Haven't you had enough mate?"

well yeah I guess :))))

A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

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

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

if you give a woman an inch she will take a mile

#128 true :D

Andrew, sorry for the question, but how old are you?

I'm 23. What about you?

I'm 22 ))

Lady Lady
You very old.))

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

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

#132 well, first of all it is "You ARE very old"
oh well I'm old and too GOOD for you!!! :]

hah))

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.

In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

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

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#140 Still leaves alot of things to beat her with though, good old English!

#132 ha

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

#131 Why did you ask my age?

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

#147 Victory!

The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.

#149 The name is too long to write it? :-)

#150
unfortunately,i don't know this word.))

Do you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?

#153 Wow that makes me feel unique...

yes,certainly ))*
Do you know anybody who was born the same day as you?

Have I written that phrase correctly?

#155 No I don't but I don't know that many people so...
#156 Yes, top marks :-)

But I know one girl who was born at the same day and year))

#156 Yes, top marks :-)
Thank you.

158# Is she your twin?

no,we are not relatives, she is only my friend!

I was joking. It's a strange coincidence do you celebrate your birthdays together?

I realized that you're joking.No,we have never celebrated our bithdays together.I think all people are egoists,that is why,maybe,we don't want enybody to pay attention to another person in our birthday,do we?
Of course, I congratulate her too!))

Yes definitely, we all want that special day to be ours and no one elses. Actually I don't care about my own, but as a whole I agree. I feel sorry for kids who are born on Christmas Day because they're not the center of attention on their birthday but I suppose they get twice as many presents and that's what they really care about ;-)

yes,yes,about presents (you are reading my thoughts) really,I wanted to say it right now!poor children!

even your mind is not your own ;-)

oh))i'm afraid of you///

:-) you should be

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

hah...but I think we have changed the rules of discussion...
I can write something interesting again.

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

#168 sounds familiar.
#169 my powers have been broken.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" :))))
next time someone asks me where I'm from, I'll say El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula :]

#172 No wonder they shortened it down to Los Angeles.
Why would you answer that? It's just plain cruel...:-)

LOL)))) cuz I like how it sounds :))))))))))

#174 Can you even pronounce it? ;-)

"Floccinaucinihilipilification" is the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "the act of estimating as worthless."

#176 I can't pronounce that. Can't people just say it's worthless?

por supuesto :))))

me too.

The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuaki tanatahu, a New Zealand hill. It means, "The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knee who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played on his flute to his loved one."

it is much bigger!!!

#180 What is it with you and long names?

#180 WTH???? O_o

Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle. LOOOOOOOOOOL )))))

nothing,it is interesting.
here it is something funny about England^
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

#184 well than it's not strange, that they hated all world)

#186 well yeah, but, honestly, if I was a man, I would agree to have only one testicle, but to be as powerful as they were....

A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.:))))))))))))))))))))))))

#185 Yeah having one ball really must make a guy angry.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 .

#191 do you know why?

unfortuntely,no!and you?

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

#193 no I didn't but I looked on the net apparently 'the reason is purely aesthetic. A watch reading 10:10 has a clean, symmetrical look. Also, the hands don't obscure the watchmaker insignia, which is usually located directly below 12 o'clock.'

it is interesting!

Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake!

cool))

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

#199that's because your eye make-up is too heavy for your eye lids

Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".

maybe,maybe..)))

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.-COOL!

#206 yes, it's strange the women's planet is the odd one out...

Really!

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eye-brows and eyelashes.

...apart from the conventional city of Tokio, which is on the surface, there is also the under-the-ground one with restaurants, shops, hairdressers' and even showers).

In a human body only 10% of biological cells are human cells. The other 90% of cells are bacteria and other microbes. We are just walking colonies of microbes.

to olga totova:
about
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
read this one, very interesting http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/muscles.html

Ksenia, thanks) It's very informative)

Do you know a bird that can not walk? We all know that there are birds who can not fly. For example, ostriches or penguins. But there is a bird that can fly, but can not walk. It is the smallest bird on earth - a hummingbird.

The comment on Rhythm not having a vowel -- the letter "y" is a vowel in this word. The vowels are a, e, i, o,u, and "sometimes " y.

In addition to the post of [id59263089:bp-12648877_208910|Анастасия Горбунова].

Swifts are very poor walkers. They can probably walk less than a meter in a minute (I saw them trying, it looked very unnatural for them). But they are good flyers. They can fly at a speed of up to 120 km/h. They are carnivorous, they don't peck seeds or crumbles of bread in the streets, like sparrows and pigeons do. They are, like falcons, taking their prey on flight. Only their prey is smaller - different kinds of flying insects.

Some small birds will chase a large bird of prey and pester it so much that it will vomit. Then the smaller bird will gobble up the vomit in midair as its tasty meal.

To the much ealier comment on the words "loose" and "lose" -- they are completely different words. Loose - it is not tight. Lose - it has been lost.

Any yes I made a typo... the word is earlier.

In 1801, when the first complete world census was carried out, the world’s population was 1 billion. China had 295 million people, India 131 million, Russia 33 million, France 27 million, Ottoman Empire 21 million, Germany 14 million, Spain 11 million, Britain 10 million, Ireland and the USA 5 million.

What a shame?

Istanbul is the only city on both continentals Europe and Asia.

!!!

The american band "Nirvana" is popular after breaking up because of death's Kurt Cobain....Now The logo make many over 80.000.000

Messi is the best footballer of the world. Five goals in one match against Bayer Leverkusen!

The country with the cheapest gasoline is venesuella, where fuel price in 2010 was about 2,3 cent.

The length of the accelerating track of the Large Hadron Collider is 27 km. A beam of accelerated protons travels this distance almost eleven thousand times in one second.

hahaha))) smart ;)

The first written evidence of a football match came in about 1170, when William Fitzstephen wrote of his visit to London, “After dinner all the youths of the city goes out into the fields for the very popular game of ball.”

I don't know. Very interesting.

Will we continue playing?
By the way, above there was a fact that people (babies) are born without knee caps, it is not true, because they have it, but they are soft or something like that))

My fact -

interesting words - in German the word - Gift - means яд and in English the word - gift - means подарок, дар.

Чешский язык-поганка- гречка,летадло-самолёт,вонявки-духи. Ахой перделка-Привет,подружка.Объявление в баре-Девки даром (Вход бесплатный для девушек) .Позор,полиция воруйе-Внимание,полиция предупреждает,

Кстати, про чешский - всё это правда, именно так всё и звучит и переводится, такие слова называются ложные друзья переводчика, они и в английском есть, только вот со словом подруга - это такой миф, который распространяют экскурсоводы :) употребляют псевдочешское слово перделка :) В действительности по-чешски 'подруга' - přítelkyně. (Цитирую с сайта, вдруг кому нужен чешский, чтобы выучить - загляните, и там много есть таких слов смешных :) http://www.languages-study.com/cesky.html там и другие языки есть!) Привет и правда - ахой.

My new fact -
Kangaroo is not just an animal, but also an island!
Kangaroo Island is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island.

white tigers live in India

Infinity+infinity=infinity

Baby kangaroos are born extremely small.

What"s the English for Гаага? THE Hague.(хейг)

People often ask whether members of the British Royal Family have a surname, and, if so, what it is. Before 1917, members of the British Royal Family had no surname, but only the name of the house or dynasty to which they belonged.For the most part, members of the Royal Family do not need a surname, but if at any time any of them do need a surname (such as upon marriage), that surname is Mountbatten-Windsor.

Do you know that the Goliath frog is bigger than a duck?

The first name of London was Londinium

The first 3-minute film was demonstrated in 1895?

Does everybody know how to find all his or her Likes in VKontakte? There is such a section in VKontakte and it can be shown on your page - is is called My Bookmarks (Мои закладки). Click on your bookmarks and you will find all your Likes there! (Video, Photos, etc...)

I read when Shakespeare died there were not any books in his house and his numerous children couldn"t read.

There is a funny picture.

Сleopatra died at the age of 39.

There is an official web site of the British Monarchy. http://www.royal.gov.uk/ Here you can learn about the history of the Monarchy, today's royal family and the Royal Art and Residences.

There is A LONG TON in the UK.It is 1016 kg.

The city of Edinburgh (Scotland) has such nicknames - "Auld Reekie", "Edina", "Athens of the North".

A new word in English-RINGXIETY.От слов звонок и тревога-замешательство,в которое приводит звонящий мобильный телефон,не понятно кому принадлежащий.

A new word - from the field of architecture -

Advertecture ['ædvɜˌtɛkʧə] – декорирование зданий с использованием рекламы, нанесение рекламы на стены домов. Можно сказать, «рекламотектура».

BLACK VELVET-смесь шампанского с крепким портером.Black pudding-кровяная колбаса.BLACK SPOT-место на дороге,где часто происходят аварии.

Knocker-up или Knocker-upper - это забытая профессия в Англии и Ирландии , состоявшая в том , чтобы будить людей на работу. Она зародилась во времена промышленной революции и существовала до 20-х годов 20-го века.
В основном использовали длинные бамбуковые палки , дубинки , трости , но иногда , чтобы будить жителей верхних этажей , стреляли в окна горохом.

Работали кнокер-апперами в основном пожилые люди , но бывало , за дополнительное вознаграждение , эта работа поручалась и местному констеблю.

Новое слово -BANKSTER по аналогии с GANGSTER. Банкир-грабитель.

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The rate of seeding of lawn grasses is 30-50 grams per meter on average.

There is a custom to take off your shoes when you are coming in a shop, restaurant, massage salon even if they are not muddy in Thailand.