Fun facts ripped off the Internet

eddie wrote:Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day!

Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.

29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day“.

Cherophobia is the fear of fun.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.

Hyphephilia are people who get aroused by touching fabrics.

Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died!

During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

erm NO, firstly they cant get the silver paper off

and secondly they are poles apart...literally....

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.

eddie wrote:The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died.

about.com inventers wrote:
The Pie Tin
The Frisbie Baking Company (1871-1958) of Bridgeport, Connecticut, made pies that were sold to many New England colleges. Hungry college students soon discovered that the empty pie tins could be tossed and caught, providing endless hours of game and sport. Many colleges have claimed to be the home of 'he who was first to fling.' Yale College has even argued that in 1820, a Yale undergraduate named Elihu Frisbie grabbed a passing collection tray from the chapel and flung it out into the campus, thereby becoming the true inventor of the Frisbie and winning glory for Yale. That tale is unlikely to be true since the words 'Frisbie's Pies' was embossed in all the original pie tins and from the word 'Frisbie' was coined the common name for the toy.

Plastic Frisbie
In 1948, a Los Angeles building inspector named Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the Frisbie that could fly further and with better accuracy than a tin pie plate. Morrison's father was also an inventor, who invented the automotive sealed-beam headlight. Another interesting tidbit was that Morrison had just returned to America after World War II, where he had been a prisoner in the infamous Stalag 13. His partnership with Warren Franscioni, who was also a war veteran, ended before their product had achieved any real success.

Morrison (after his split with Franscioni) produced a plastic Frisbie called the Pluto Platter, to cash in on the growing popularity of UFOs with the American public. The Pluto Platter has become the basic design for all Frisbies. The outer third of the Frisbie disc is called the 'Morrison Slope', listed in the patent. Rich Knerr and A.K. 'Spud' Melin were the owners of a new toy company called 'Wham-O'. Knerr and Melin also marketed the Hula-Hoop, the Super Ball and the Water Wiggle. They pair first saw Morrison's Pluto Platter in late 1955. They liked what they saw and convinced Morrison to sell them the rights to his design. With a deal signed, Wham-O began production (1/13/1957) of more Pluto Platters. The next year, the original Frisbie Baking Company shut down and coincidentally Fred Morrison was awarded a patent (Design patent 183,626) for his flying disc. Morrison received over one million dollars in royalties for his invention.

The Name 'Frisbee'
The word 'Frisbee' is pronounced the same as the word 'Frisbie'. Rich Knerr (Wham-O) was in search of a catchy new name to help increase sales, after hearing about the original use of the terms 'Frisbie' and 'Frisbie-ing'. He borrowed from the two words to create the registered trademark Frisbee ®. Sales soared for the toy, due to Wham-O's clever marketing of Frisbee playing as a new sport. In 1964, the first professional model went on sale. Ed Headrick was the inventor at Wham-O who patented Wham-O's designs for the modern frisbee (U.S. patent 3,359,678). Ed Headrick's frisbee with its band of raised ridges called the Rings of Headrick had stablized flight as opposed to the wobbly flight of its predecessor the Pluto Platter.

Ultimate Frisbee
In 1967, high school students in Maplewood, New Jersey, invented Ultimate Frisbee, a recognized sport that is a cross between football, soccer and basketball. Ten years later, a form of Frisbee golf was introduced, complete with professional playing courses and associations.

Another Great Frisbee Moment: In 1968, the U.S. Navy spends almost $400,000 to study Frisbees in wind tunnels, following their flights with computers and cameras, and building a special Frisbee-launching machine on top of a Utah cliff to test a prototype flare launcher.

Today the fifty year old Frisbee® is owned by Mattel Toy Manufacturers, only one of at least sixty manufacturers of flying discs. Wham-O sold over one hundred million units before the selling the toy to Mattel.

Disc Golf
Ed Headrick, owner of the Disc Golf Association, Inc.® founded the game of Disc Golf in 1976. The sport is played by an estimated two million recreational players in the United States and increasing. Headrick's inventions include the Wham-O Superball that sold over twenty-million units and the utility patent for the modern day Frisbee, which has sold over two-hundred-million units to date. Mr. Headrick led the Advertising program, New Products program, was Vice President of Research and Development, Executive Vice President, General Manager and served as CEO for Wham-O Inc. over a ten year period. The patent drawing at the top of this article is from U.S. patent 3,359,678 - issued to Headrick on December 26, 1967.

Bibliography
Frisbee, A Practitioner's Manual and Definitive Treatise Author Stancil E.D. Johnson, M.D. Workman Publishing Company 231 East 51 Street
New York, New York 10022 July, 1975

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980218.htm

veya_victaous wrote:eds i think that is a joke list

Kangaroos tails are always off the ground when hopping. they use their tails for balance when not hopping

"Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water." And that is just not true we would be using spit for car coolant if it were  300C is the boiling point of olive oil or tar

eddie wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:eds i think that is a joke list

Kangaroos tails are always off the ground when hopping. they use their tails for balance when not hopping

"Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water." And that is just not true we would be using spit for car coolant if it were  300C is the boiling point of olive oil or tar

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Oh! I was getting really excited about the 29th may! I bought a new pillow and everything!

Ben_Reilly wrote:MORE

* During World War II, the U.S. toyed with the notion of making pennies out of plastic to save on copper.

* The African honey-guide bird uses a special call to attract people to the vicinity of a beehive and guide them to it. It's far too small to do anything to get the honey on its own, but it's learned that people will reward it with honey if it leads them to it.

* The heart of a blue whale can be the size of a compact car and weigh more than an adult bull. However, their brains generally top out at about seven kilos.

* Finland has a sliding-scale system of fines for speeding. Millionaires can get speeding tickets for the equivalent of over $100,000 U.S.

eddie wrote:Why did he carry bagpipes?

Ben Reilly wrote:
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* The top 100 tallest mountains are all in the Himalaya; people who live there are particularly susceptible to blindness due to the higher concentration of solar UV rays.

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