Top 27 unbelievable facts that people don't know...

[ArcaDe]

just found it on a diff forum .. interesting so i thought i put it right here



Top 27 unbelievable facts that people don't know...

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

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

24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be
able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after
such a large amount. (Common Sense)

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of
Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone
just knows the first one.

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to
manage their death/concentration camps.

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier
than the weight of the human population.

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil
war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who
thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people
die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of
people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,
than before you finished reading this.

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the
number of all the people that have died. Ever.

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and
eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.

13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to
be made as the Simpsons movie.

12. Men can breastfeed babies.

11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which
you've probably never heard of.

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to
human beings and animals than to other plants.

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written
first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America
method). That's why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki
have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family
names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki
Ichiro.

8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.
Long Beach, WA.

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom
underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo
la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the
tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found
edible.

1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas
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[PigL3t]

some more unbelievable facts:

28. some people believe everything they read.

29. the same people copy and paste what they read in other forums.

30. i know one of them!

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[ArcaDe]

that are facts for long studies .. really
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[NoVa]

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[ShyGuy]

I'm pretty sure, on #20, That back in WW2, they didn't have computers.
And i'm 99% sure that #15 is false.
#3, I guess you are right. Joseph Swan ivented the first PRACTICAL lightbulb.
Edison perfected it.
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[Solar]

World War II and Holocaust era

In 2001 author Edwin Black published IBM and the Holocaust, a book documenting that IBM's New York headquarters and CEO Thomas J. Watson acted through its overseas subsidiaries to provide the Third Reich with punch card machines knowing that the machines could help the Nazis prosecute their "Final Solution". The award-winning book documents how, with New York's cooperation, IBM's Geneva office and Dehomag, its German subsidiary, were intimately involved in supporting Nazi atrocities. Black also documents that these machines made the Nazis much more efficient in their efforts. The 2003 documentary film The Corporation also explores this issue.

IBM has mainly been silent about the book and its documentation.

During World War II, IBM manufactured the Browning Automatic Rifle and the M1 Carbine. Allied military forces widely utilized IBM's tabulating equipment for military accounting, logistics, and other War-related purposes. There was extensive use of IBM punch-card machines for calculations made at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project for developing the first atomic bombs; this has been noteably discussed by Richard Feynman in his well-read book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. During the War IBM also built the Harvard Mark I for the U.S. Navy, the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the U.S.

[ShyGuy]

Your some teacher? ok,
But #15 is diffinately false. That's the silliest thing i'v ever read.
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[NoVa]

[ShyGuy]

Explain how that could be very likely. That's impossible.
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[NoVa]

there isnt a way to explain how and tbh i cant really be bothered to. but i think its quite possible. dont forget, its probably only going back to whenever the records began, not the year dot
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[ShyGuy]

But they say more then everyone that has ever died, EVER. depending on how far the records go. I just don't find that believeable.
lets look back 200 years ago. know one now is living 200 years ago and you have to assume at least, at least! 1 billion people each year +. so you know one from 200 years ago is living right now, there is about 16billion people living now. Assumign 1bil each year thats already 20billion dead people, not counts the other of thousands of years.

Please tell me if this post doens't make sense, I am only 13 and I like to make up stuff soemtimes :DDDDD
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[Plutonic]

i dont know if its true or not, but at the current rate, if it isnt, eventually it will be.
The global birth rare is higher than the global death rate. so each year the number of people alive today increases by more than the number of dead people ever.... i think that makes sence....... maybe not.
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