chitrangda Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Love to surf? Then you have to visit Brazil to surf the longest wave on the planet Earth called Pororoca. Between February and March Atlantic ocean tides generate waves up to 12 feet high which can last for over half an hour. Pororoca in indigenous Tupi language means "great destructive noise" and it destroys everything in its path with the speed of 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km) per hour. reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pororoca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnebulalordx676 Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Mosquitoes prefer bananas on the breath to any other fruit or veggie scent. Mosquitoes prefer males to females (for the testosterone of the plasma level I'm assuming). Mosquitoes prefer babies or pregnant women to other choices of children or adult women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Mosquitoes prefer bananas on the breath to any other fruit or veggie scent. Mosquitoes prefer males to females (for the testosterone of the plasma level I'm assuming). Mosquitoes prefer babies or pregnant women to other choices of children or adult women. What references do you have to support that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitrangda Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Smoking is the second major cause of death worldwide. http://www.chestjournal.org/content/117/2_suppl/1S.abstract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Smoking is the second major cause of death worldwide.http://www.chestjournal.org/content/117/2_suppl/1S.abstract I cannot find your claim in the article you refer to. (The article itself has again lots of references - could you link to the correct one?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitrangda Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples. Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 The worlds largest peanut, grown by Earl Adkins in North Carolina, was 4 inches long! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitrangda Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world (Source: Gemological Institute of America). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kroughfire Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 The New Zealand Kiwi bird's egg makes up 1/3 its volume. The Ostrich's eye is larger than its brain. The praying mantis initiates the mating process by ripping the males head off. a cockroach can live two weeks without its head... then it starves to death. while in the womb, embryonic sharks fight eachother. Only one shark is ever born at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 (edited) The praying mantis initiates the mating process by ripping the males head off. Not really true. The female generally takes the males head off DURING or AFTER the mating process, not to initiate it. The mating process itself tends to be initiated by a dance (also known as the courtship display) by the male. Further, another fun fact is that the female eating the males head does not happen every time. Although the praying mantis is known for its cannibalistic mating process, in actuality, it only occurs 5-31% of the time. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1801 a cockroach can live two weeks without its head... then it starves to death. Actually, it's closer to a month, but depends on which species of cockroach it is (there are roughly 3,500 species falling into six different families), and it's not always starvation that causes the death to occur. http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html#Q13 while in the womb, embryonic sharks fight eachother. Only one shark is ever born at a time. Also, not true. The number of shark pups born to a mother depends greatly on the species of shark. http://www.amcs.org.au/printed.asp?active_page_id=196 The number of shark pups born to a single mother varies considerably between species. Some have only two large pups, while others, like the blue shark, may have 40 to 80 much smaller young. Try to remember... It's not a "Cool Fact" if it's not true, which is why we ask for references. Edited April 16, 2009 by iNow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitrangda Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooeypoo Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". <yoda> Short memory you have. </yoda> RESOURCE. Please! I couldn't find anything about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Skeptic Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 http://www.sanjeev.net/wordplay/Ending-with-MT.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooeypoo Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitrangda Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Short memory you have. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NATT Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Can snails make sound???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokele Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Not so far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 They do when you step on um Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mashfiq Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Besides humans, the elephant is the only animal that can cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hidemons Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 The state of Texas can split up into 5 different states anytime it wants to. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mashfiq Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooeypoo Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. No, it isn't. It's located in the thorax, which is next to the head. This misconception is commonly made mostly because both thorax and "head" are covered by a single piece of exoskeleton. Now, please people -- this is a thread for facts, and facts are meaningless if they're not corroborated, specially when it's really fun to read more on their context. Please supply the source of your fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mashfiq Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 The number 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mashfiq Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Your fingernails grow faster than your toenails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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