Phee Phacts

[Paper Hearts]

The average New Yorker or Londoner walks more than 5 miles per day to the average Detroiter's 1.5.

[Vater Araignee]

Stupid people are to stupid to understand that they are stupid.

Prove it for your self, try to get a supervisor to admit it.

[phee]

There are between 10 million and 30 million species of insects in the world, of which only one million are known to science

[phee]

Tarantual wasps paralyze tarantulas and lay a single egg on the still living spider; when the egg hatches, the wasp larva has fresh food.

[Guest Megalicious]

Animals can naturally explode

Natural animal explosions can occur for a variety of reasons. On 2004, a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale, measuring 17 meters (56 ft.) long and weighing 50 tons, caused it to burst in Taiwan. The explosion was reported to have splattered blood and whale entrails over surrounding shop-fronts, bystanders, and cars.

A significant population of toads in Germany and Denmark were exploding in April 2005 in an act described as a self-defence mechanism that failed, as it consisted of puffing up to look bigger while under attack by crows.

[phee]

Animals can naturally explode

Natural animal explosions can occur for a variety of reasons. On 2004, a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale, measuring 17 meters (56 ft.) long and weighing 50 tons, caused it to burst in Taiwan. The explosion was reported to have splattered blood and whale entrails over surrounding shop-fronts, bystanders, and cars.

A significant population of toads in Germany and Denmark were exploding in April 2005 in an act described as a self-defence mechanism that failed, as it consisted of puffing up to look bigger while under attack by crows.

Thats the spirit

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.

[Guest Megalicious]

There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body - laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

[phee]

One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.

[Guest Megalicious]

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years

[phee]

The worlds oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold

[Guest Megalicious]

The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol.

I had never heard this one before and found it interesting.

[phee]

A wolf spider chases insects rather than building a web to catch them

[phee]

95% of the things we fear will occur, do not occur.

[phee]

Lowest world temperature: -128.6°F / -89.6°C, Vostok Station, Antarctica, 21 July 1983--without windchill.

[Guest Megalicious]

95% of the things we fear will occur, do not occur.

I LOVE those odds!

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons

[n0Mad]

Phee resurrected a thread that's over 3 years old. That must be some kind of a record.

[phee]

Nearly 2,000 thunderstorm cells are estimated over the planet at any given time. The U.S. has over 100,000 thunderstorms annually, the global average being 16 million

[Guest Megalicious]

Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur

[phee]

This has been tried, but so far physicists have only actually managed to send electrons flying round at 99.999999995% of the speed of light, which is very close to, but not quite the speed of light.

[Guest Megalicious]

The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

[phee]

The moon orbits the Earth at an average speed of 2,300 miles an hour

[phee]

light causes electric activity in the eye, that can be measured, and is sometimes used in tests to find out how the retina and the nerve of sight works.

[Guest greyhalo]

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

[Guest Megalicious]

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

This one is so ambiguous, how fast?

Edited August 27, 2008 by Megalicious

[Guest Megalicious]

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.