[ismail]

Sorry but the number of people alive are not higher than all the dead people ever. No one knows how long humans have existed. In my religious book which is the Quran it mentions that we are like 2 or 3 percent compared to how many people existed before us. Don'tforget the flood that wiped out a variety of humans. We are so similar today because the people on Noah's both were from the same town.

[karl 12]

Pinhead77 on Oct 18 2008, 08:37 PM, said:

Not possible.

"The marmont - specifically the Bobak marmot found on the Russian and Mongolian Steppe - is particularly susceptible to a lung infection known as Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as The Plague. It spreads it around its neighbours by coughing, and passes it on to fleas, rats, and ultimately humans.

All the great plagues that have swept through from Eastern Asia to Europe have originated in the marmot in Mongolia and gone on to kill many hundreds of millions. In marmots and humans, the auxiliary lymphatic glands, under the armpits, become black and swollen ('buboes') and although marmot meat and fat is a delicacy amongst Mongolians, they will never eat the armpits of an animal because it 'contains the soul of a dead hunter'.

Bubonic plague was spread by marmots in Siberia in 1910, killing 60,000 people in 9 months. The plague spread to Manchouli, at one end of the Chinese Eastern Railway, quickly spreading east along 1,700 miles. Marmot skin had been in huge demand as a substitute for sable at the time, and hunters became the primary contact.

Plague outbreaks still occur in places like India (1994) and it is one of the three diseases listed by the CDC requiring quarantine (the other two being yellow fever and cholera)".


Well maybe not a billion but ,semantics aside,in causing human death this cheeky little critter is second only to the malarial mosquito.

[karl 12]

Heres some more:

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

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

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Bees can recognise human faces.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan",there was never a recorded Wendy before.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The U.S. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28%~the percentage of North America that is wilderness is 38%.

The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $ 16,400.

The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour is 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

A rat can swim for 72 hours non-stop and jump down 50 feet without injury.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.

On average,men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.

Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red-hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.

Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found himself in the city prison.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.

Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A leech has 32 brains.

In Minnesota it is illegal to mock skunks.

A shrimps heart is in its head.

Deer urine can turn blue when they become dehydrated in the winter.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

On average, 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimp each year.

In 1471, a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was accused of being 'a devil in disguise' after laying a brightly colored egg. The chicken stood trial, was found guilty and burned at the stake.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The offense was punishable by hanging.

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle."

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (President #32) was related in some way to 11 former U.S. Presidents.

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest computer software producing country in the world.

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

Only in 1956 was the phrase "In God We Trust" adopted as the U.S. national motto.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

Punctuation was not invented until the 1500's.

The first couple to share a bed on American TV were Herman and Lily Munster.

This post has been edited by karl 12: 18 October 2008 - 11:06 PM

[The Jello Man]

karl 12 on Oct 18 2008, 02:12 PM, said:

"The marmont - specifically the Bobak marmot found on the Russian and Mongolian Steppe - is particularly susceptible to a lung infection known as Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as The Plague. It spreads it around its neighbours by coughing, and passes it on to fleas, rats, and ultimately humans.

All the great plagues that have swept through from Eastern Asia to Europe have originated in the marmot in Mongolia and gone on to kill many hundreds of millions. In marmots and humans, the auxiliary lymphatic glands, under the armpits, become black and swollen ('buboes') and although marmot meat and fat is a delicacy amongst Mongolians, they will never eat the armpits of an animal because it 'contains the soul of a dead hunter'.

Bubonic plague was spread by marmots in Siberia in 1910, killing 60,000 people in 9 months. The plague spread to Manchouli, at one end of the Chinese Eastern Railway, quickly spreading east along 1,700 miles. Marmot skin had been in huge demand as a substitute for sable at the time, and hunters became the primary contact.

Plague outbreaks still occur in places like India (1994) and it is one of the three diseases listed by the CDC requiring quarantine (the other two being yellow fever and cholera)".


Well maybe not a billion but ,semantics aside,in causing human death this cheeky little critter is second only to the malarial mosquito.

I actually thought it meant directly caused by marmots. As in marmot maulings.

[karl 12]

Pinhead77 on Oct 18 2008, 11:43 PM, said:

I actually thought it meant directly caused by marmots. As in marmot maulings.

Now that would be some great breaking news...mass marmot maulings.
Eeeek!

[hetrodoxly]

I hate these lists because i can't stop myself wasting time checking if they're true or not, but this time i'm going to resist the temptation, i'll just say at least two are wrong.

[Lord Of The Dragons]

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty".

In the city of York in the UK, it is still legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow in the High Street.

My Dentist is called C. Hewitt (I kid you not).

Ok, the last one is a bit ambiguous for this thread, but is still true all the same lol

[morrigan]

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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

This is untrue. They can and do become ill if not mated in season, but it is not necessarily fatal. They can be given what is commonly called a "Jill Jab" by the veterinarian (a hormonal injection) that will prevent illness. Of course being responsible and spaying your female ferret prevents this problem outright.

[hetrodoxly]

morrigan on Oct 19 2008, 05:45 AM, said:

This is untrue. They can and do become ill if not mated in season, but it is not necessarily fatal. They can be given what is commonly called a "Jill Jab" by the veterinarian (a hormonal injection) that will prevent illness. Of course being responsible and spaying your female ferret prevents this problem outright.

I had a jill that died at the ripe old age of 12 she was never mated or jabbed (that sounds like the same thing) jill's kept together often go through the mating ritual i think this can have the same affect as being mated by a hob, she's doesn't have to become pregnant to go out of heat, a vasectomised hob (know as a "jaffa"?) will do the trick. Another one busted.

[Mothmen]

karl 12 on Oct 17 2008, 06:21 PM, said:

*Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.

Actually, he is buried in St. Marx in Austria, so that fact is not true.

[Enigmatic Annasawzi]

The U.S. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.


Are you on crack, in winter up here it gets down to 40 sometimes 60 below, I don't anyone damn person in either fairbanks, anchorage, wasilla, or any part of alaska, would be willing to walk in such weather, even in barrow. But then again, how can I know this...........I LIVE IN AND WAS BORN HERE DUDE, we only walk outside in summer, and winter, we ride...............wait, we're mostly drunk so never mind what I just said.

[goalienan]

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Scary to think that *the electric chair was invented by a dentist*..cancels appt. for tomorrow...

[karl 12]

morrigan on Oct 19 2008, 05:45 AM, said:

This is untrue. They can and do become ill if not mated in season, but it is not necessarily fatal. They can be given what is commonly called a "Jill Jab" by the veterinarian (a hormonal injection) that will prevent illness. Of course being responsible and spaying your female ferret prevents this problem outright.

Morrigan thanks for the info,I`m all for debunking these cheeky,strange facts where appropriate.
I had a girlfriend like that once.

[karl 12]

Mothmen on Oct 19 2008, 01:25 PM, said:

Actually, he is buried in St. Marx in Austria, so that fact is not true.

"Although Mozart is buried somewhere in Vienna's St. Marx cemetery, the exact location is unknown; the current monument and 'grave' are the results of an educated guess. Unfortunately, the circumstances of the composer's burial, and the lack of any definite grave, has led to great confusion, including the common belief that Mozart was dumped into a mass grave for paupers. This view stems from a misinterpretation of funerary practices in eighteenth century Vienna."

http://europeanhisto...ary/bldyk11.htm

[karl 12]

Enigmatic Annasawzi on Oct 19 2008, 02:14 PM, said:

The U.S. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.


Are you on crack,

Not any more.

As for Alaskans:
"Over 7% of Alaskans walking to work
John Ryan, KTOO - Juneau
Despite Alaskan`s weather extremes, a greater percentage of people walk to work on the Last Frontier than in any other state".
http://aprn.org/2007...cember-12-2007/

This post has been edited by karl 12: 19 October 2008 - 02:37 PM