Lando's "DID YOU KNOW?" thread

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 2/27/2005, 2:00 pm

The "Did You Know" Thread will be used for random bits of trivia and facts that you probably don't need to know!

Did you know that Canada is the country with the longest coastline?
It's total coastline distance is 151,485 miles (243,791 km)

This makes the Canadian coastline, including all of it's islands more than SIX times as long as the distance around the Earth at the equator, which is 24,902 miles (40,076 km)

Canada has 52,455 offshore islands.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 2/27/2005, 2:10 pm

Did you know that the largest television owning country is not the USA or Asia?

It is in fact the country Qatar with 869 TVs per 1000 people.

The USA is in second with 854.

The world average is 270!

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 2/27/2005, 2:11 pm

did you know that there are more donut shops per capita in canada than in any other country?

did you know that most cats are left-pawed?

did you know that your thumb is the same length as your nose?

Joe Cooler · Post by **Joe Cooler** » 2/27/2005, 2:14 pm

Did you know that the record for longest surviving headless chicken is 18 months.

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 2/27/2005, 2:16 pm

did you know that australian scaly crickets have sex up to 13 times an hour?

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 2/27/2005, 2:19 pm

Did you know that the country with the highest "reported" car thefts is Switzerland with 982.60 (Rate per 100,000)

And that the USA isn't even one of the top 10 countries with the most car thefts, but Canada is with 521.20

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 2/27/2005, 2:20 pm

did you know that male greater white-lined bats sing love songs to prospective females?

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 2/27/2005, 2:21 pm

Did you know that China is the country with the most executions per year with a total of 1,067 annually. The second highest country is less than a tenth of China's, with a total of only 100 for the Domocratic Republic of Congo.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 2/27/2005, 3:08 pm

Did you know that all of the clocks in the movie PULP FICTION are always on the time 4:20?

Did you know there are more chickens in the world then there are people?

Did you know cats have 32 muscles in each ear?

afealicious · Post by **afealicious** » 2/27/2005, 3:52 pm

Did you know that north american oysters do not make pearls of any value?

laurel · Post by **laurel** » 2/27/2005, 4:26 pm

did you know that this thread wants to make me scream, due to all the repetition of 'did you know?'

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 2/27/2005, 4:28 pm

afealicious wrote:did you know that australian scaly crickets have sex up to 13 times an hour?

did you know so do i

reza · Post by **reza** » 2/27/2005, 6:18 pm

Did you know that it's illegal to drag a dead horse down Younge Street in Toronto on a Sunday?

Xavier870 · Post by **Xavier870** » 2/27/2005, 6:47 pm

kermit wrote:Did you know that it's illegal to drag a dead horse down Younge Street in Toronto on a Sunday?

I actually did know that, and now I'm trying to figure out why.

reza · Post by **reza** » 2/27/2005, 6:57 pm

Yeah, mostly people in the GTA (ish) area know that, lol.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 2/27/2005, 7:22 pm

Then why did I know that? Huh?

Clearly you fail at "did you know"

reza · Post by **reza** » 2/27/2005, 7:24 pm

It's a question! A question can have many responses so how do I fail?

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 2/28/2005, 12:24 am

I knew the horse thing, too, for some reason.

afealicious wrote:did you know that there are more donut shops per capita in canada than in any other country?

That's totally cos of Tim's.

reza · Post by **reza** » 2/28/2005, 12:25 am

you underestimate country style...

Post by **saman** » 2/28/2005, 9:18 am

this thread makes me want to sing

did you ever know that you're my heerrroo?

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Lando's "DID YOU KNOW?" thread

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