Did You Know?

**Sp00k** · 09-28-2006, 12:46 PM

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

Note: Feel free to put your own addition of any true facts that will inform or educate us all.

wIggy · 09-28-2006, 12:47 PM

Rest In Peace blood cells

**Noodles** · 09-28-2006, 01:14 PM

After 20 years of age on average each person loses 50,000 brain cells daily.

wIggy · 09-28-2006, 03:32 PM

is there any possibility of finding them again?

ok ok, to show I'm not just whoring...here's a little bit of info on Turkey, since I'll be going there Sunday

Turkey's unemployment rate is 20% compared to the United States 5.1%, UK's 4.7% and Canada's 6.8%

**Sp00k** · 09-29-2006, 08:42 AM

Its good to be British.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

iluvpenguins · 09-29-2006, 12:43 PM

interesting facts....nice thread spooky

**Sp00k** · 10-03-2006, 01:11 PM

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

**Sp00k** · 11-14-2007, 01:40 AM

Interesting trivia:
Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times. (A brick?)