Share your smart tips and facts!

[Misiziri]

Ahem. Kitty says to share any random helpful tips or interesting facts.

[KopsTheTerminator]

Facts:
- Very few can sneeze without closing their eyes.
- Cheetahs are really hard to breed. There was a huge problem with cheetah breeding in zoos until they found out that they can only breed with cheetahs they don't know. I've also heard that all cheetahs may be related to each other. Dunno if it's true, though.
- Cats aren't completely unsociable, they can get along with other cats, it depends however. I know that from experience :3

[Jiirani]

- Cats aren't completely unsociable, they can get along with other cats, it depends however. I know that from experience :3

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So do I. That seems pretty obvious to me.

- You can't hum and hold your nose at the same time.
- 80% of all children have been on a diet before 4th grade
- One-third of girls in the US get pregnant before the age of 20
- Mothers pregnant with male babies eat more than if they had female babies.
- No white tigers could exist in the wild. They are all inbred in zoos.

These ones aren't exactly smart:

- The Harry Potter films are the highest-grossing film series of all time
- A legless woman has been given a mermaid tail to help her swim.
- A teenage girl shot her dad with an arrow when he took away her cellphone

[FlipMode]

Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most prolific voice actor of all time, with 1035 credits. This was largely due to voicing many other Warner Brothers characters as well, resulting in multiple credits across many animations.

The name of the person who invented dynamite was Alfred Noble, who would later provide the funding for the Nobel Peace Prize Awards.

The Walt Disney logo is not actually Walt Disneys own signature, it was made by an artist. This caused confusion among fans who received autographed merchandise, as his legitimate signature looked different.

The most famous song in the English language is "Happy Birthday to You" it was written in 1893 by two kindergarten teachers and was originally titled "Good Morning To All", the students loved the song so much that they changed the lyrics slightly and sang it at birthday parties.

[Misiziri]

- One-third of girls in the US get pregnant before the age of 20

That's mah country

~ You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
~ Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks.
~ The liquid inside a cocunut can be substituted for blood plasma.

[Azdgari]

Throw a Nanigo in when you're trading fours in a swing tune. Totally hip.

[Annie]

- Horses can sleep standing up, but they can only go into a deep sleep when they lay down, which they can only do when they are completely relaxed and feel safe.

- Jackie Chan doesn't do all his own stunts...anymore. He used to though. He has also broken almost every bone in his body. He has broken his fingers so much, he doesn't really feel it anymore. He came closests to death when he fell 15ft onto jagged rocks, landing on his head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA1ZwbXHGyA

- Sometimes Asian people (I know Jackie Chan has had it done) get their eyes 'done' to make them larger.

- American animation has 24 frames, while UK uses 25 frames per second.

[MoonlightLioness248]

Facts:
A plucked eyelash takes about two months to grow back
There are about 60,000 miles of blood vessles in the human body
An elephant is able to pick up a single blade of grass with its trunk
Frank Sinatra's mother was a convicted felon
Bugs Bunny was born in Brooklyn
Amy Adams used to be a hooters girl
Some fish comunicate by farting
Scientists say that birds in the crow family are the smartest
The average American home contains 90 dollars in loose change
Toothbrushes had bristles taken from the back of a boar's head untill 1938 nylon was introduced

[Lauren]

Right now, I only have one on the top of my head, but here:

When hippos sweat, it turns red.

[Baya]

Jesus was Jewish, not Christian. C: