The Strangest things people notice...

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  1. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  2. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
  3. Catsup leaves the bottle at the rate of 25 miles per year
  4. It is physically impossible;e to lick your elbows
  5. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue prints are different
  6. Women blink nearly twice as often as men
  7. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
  8. Almost everyone who read these useless or interesting tidbits is trying to lick their elbows
  9. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
  10. Horses can't vomit
  11. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  12. The average lifespan of a major league baseball: is 7 pitches.
  13. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  14. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
  15. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. you also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make a change for a dollar.

There ya have it folks, some facts that people know, but does anybody really care
 
mike4lorie said:
  1. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  2. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
  3. Catsup leaves the bottle at the rate of 25 miles per year
  4. It is physically impossible;e to lick your elbows
  5. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue prints are different
  6. Women blink nearly twice as often as men
  7. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
  8. Almost everyone who read these useless or interesting tidbits is trying to lick their elbows
  9. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
  10. Horses can't vomit
  11. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  12. The average lifespan of a major league baseball: is 7 pitches.
  13. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  14. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
  15. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. you also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make a change for a dollar.

There ya have it folks, some facts that people know, but does anybody really care
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#8 :ROFLMAO:
 
Retired basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The Olympic flag's colours are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colours appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.

The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.

At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
 
In Calama...it has rained.. it just very rarely rains, although at one 400 period up until 1971 it didn't rain one bit...

It's hard to overstate just how arid the Atacama, a plateau on the coast of northern Chile, really is. The Andes Mountains work like a 13,000-foot-high wall, completely blocking systems of moist air that might otherwise wander down from the Amazon Basin. As a result, the entire Atacama, a strip of land 1,000 miles wide, is virtually rainless. Arica, one of the desert's largest cities, receives an average annual rainfall of 0.76 millimeters, about the height of a flea egg.


There have been one billion days of sunny weather.

There are weather stations in the Atacama that have never recorded any rain. The town of Calama went without a single drop of rain from 1570 to 1971—more than 400 years! There are river beds that have been dry for 120,000 years, and scientists think that the Atacama has been a desert for over three million years, which would make it the oldest dry spot on Earth.


Chile: the final frontier.

The waterless Atacama is so unearthly that it's regularly used as a stand-in for Mars, both by Hollywood movie crews and by NASA. Before scientific instruments are launched into space on Mars probes, they perform the same tests in the dusty soil of the Atacama to make sure all systems are go. Other astronomers go to the barren Atacama to watch the skies. ALMA, the world's largest telescope array, opened there in 2013.
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hollydolly said:
In Calama...it has rained.. it just very rarely rains, although at one 400 period up until 1971 it didn't rain one bit...

It's hard to overstate just how arid the Atacama, a plateau on the coast of northern Chile, really is. The Andes Mountains work like a 13,000-foot-high wall, completely blocking systems of moist air that might otherwise wander down from the Amazon Basin. As a result, the entire Atacama, a strip of land 1,000 miles wide, is virtually rainless. Arica, one of the desert's largest cities, receives an average annual rainfall of 0.76 millimeters, about the height of a flea egg.


There have been one billion days of sunny weather.

There are weather stations in the Atacama that have never recorded any rain. The town of Calama went without a single drop of rain from 1570 to 1971—more than 400 years! There are river beds that have been dry for 120,000 years, and scientists think that the Atacama has been a desert for over three million years, which would make it the oldest dry spot on Earth.


Chile: the final frontier.

The waterless Atacama is so unearthly that it's regularly used as a stand-in for Mars, both by Hollywood movie crews and by NASA. Before scientific instruments are launched into space on Mars probes, they perform the same tests in the dusty soil of the Atacama to make sure all systems are go. Other astronomers go to the barren Atacama to watch the skies. ALMA, the world's largest telescope array, opened there in 2013.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-22....bN8mrx3_AWaQXnxVw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB
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Kewl... more strange things to the strange things, go figure...
 
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