Sunday, January 02, 2005

A Complete List of Libra Odd Spots

I say A Complete List because as it turns out, there's more than one. Near as I can ascertain, Libra have at least two collections - possibly more - of charmingly named Odd Spots, and assigned them random numbers, and then merely cycled through them. Yes, they loop.

So, starting with the smallest numbered in Cycle 1 (containing 30 factoids to amaze your friends and family with), they occur in order as:

Odd Spot #10
Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.

Odd Spot #71
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the Ancient Egyptians in 2000 BC.

Odd Spot #93
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue prints are different.

Odd Spot #107
The honeybee kills more people worldwide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

Odd Spot #142
Each year insects eat one third of the world's food crop.

Odd Spot #92
During a 24 hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times, exercise 7 million brain cells and speak 4,800 words.

Odd Spot #66
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

Odd Spot #69
Only female ducks can quack.

Odd spot #58
During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

Odd Spot #137
The average human body contains enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.

Odd Spot #28
No two spider webs are the same.

Odd Spot #139
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

Odd Spot #129
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight and can pull 30 times its own weight.

Odd Spot #125
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Odd Spot #94
Chocolate stimulates the release of endorphins in the body. Endorphins enhance one's mood and block pain.

Odd Spot #84
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs have only about ten.

Odd Spot #76
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.

Odd Spot #148
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 bones in our bodies.

Odd Spot #105
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by bees.

Odd Spot #81
The human eye sees everything upside down, but the brain turns everything right side up.

Odd Spot #110
One quarter of the bones in your body is in your feet.

Odd Spot #161
23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

Odd Spot #30
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.

Odd Spot #118
The average human body makes enough carbon for 900 pencils.

Odd Spot #96
Althaiophobia is a fear of marshmallows.

Odd Spot #120
Our eyes are always the same from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Odd Spot #133
On average, people fear spiders more than death.

Odd Spot #57
A snail can sleep for three years.

Odd Spot #168
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Odd Spot #59
A full moon always rises at sunset.


There. If nothing else, this only proves that long weekends are wasted on me. Now I just have to work on putting Cycle 2 together. If anybody else wants to put together their own list, Spring Valley also publish factoids under the bottle lids called Liddle Facts (get it? Ha-bloody-ha-ha. Liddle Facts. Odd Spots. Where do these corporate committee types get the idea they're all comedians?). At one factoid per bottle, however, that's a lot of fruit juice, and so far, they've all related to fruits and vegetables. Exciting stuff.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

a piece of news paper can be folded nine times, or at least, the lake Macquarie post paper can. It also depends on how you fold the paper in half (do yo do it in strips, or in squares. (you'll work out what i mean when you test my story.

Anonymous said...

as long as people are aware that this "trivia" is tripe. the statements are untrue. Spo don't take too long memorising them!

Anonymous said...

Odd Spot #49
The modern flushing toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.

Odd Spot #66
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.

Odd Spot #35
The Human Brain is 85% water.

Not sure what number because it was cut off but...

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a charlie chaplin look a like contest.

Odd Spot #75
Peanuts are one to the ingredients of dynamite

Odd Spot#21
No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver or purple.

Happy Blogging

Anonymous said...

also nothing rhymes with circus either

Anonymous said...

mucus rhymes with circus

Anonymous said...

mucus doesn't rhyme with circus. only the second syllable rhymes.

Anonymous said...

odd spot #295
a lobsters kidneys are in its forehead and its teeth are in its stomach
odd spot #27
male monkeys go bald the same way men do
odd spot #176
the pelican breathes through its mouth it has no nostrils
odd spot #147
the highest rating that can be give to a top quality diamond is D-Flawless
odd spot #346
Buckingham Palace has 600 rooms
odd spot #4
elephants and short tailed shrews only get two hours of sleep each day
odd spot #305
the initials on the famous cars M.G stands for Morris Garage
odd spot #86
xerophargy refers to a diet of bread and water

Anonymous said...

lol hope youu enjoy mi list above

Anonymous said...

#4:
the worlds oldest piece of chewy is over 9000 years old.

#140
studies show that the principal reason people lie is to avoid punishment.

#22
if the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

#147
lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

#132
Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they're an ox.

#167
reindeer like to eat bananas.

#34
mosquito replants don't repel. they block the mosquitoes scenes so they don't know you're there.

Anonymous said...

this stuff is so real!

Trin said...

purpose rhymes circus!!

#205 argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world

#3 americans consume about 100 acres of pizza per day

#56 it is estimated that a plastic container will not decompose for as long as 50,000 years

#158 the only part of the human anatomy that has no blood supply is the cornea

#32 Penguins have an organ above their eyes that turns sea water into freshwater

#115 a body temperature overr 42 degrees is fatal

#195 the skin of baby mice is so transparent that you can see the milk flowing into them as they suckle

#143 48 teaspoons make up ine cup

#96 your body makes a new lining for your stomach every three days

#318 cabbage is 91% water

#136 cows, rice fields and garbage dumps are the largest producers methane gas

#260 the statuette on rolls royces is called the spirit of ecstacy.

Anonymous said...

Ancient greeks used to believe that chickpeas were an aphrodiosiac, especially for men.

#269
The average loaf of bread is more than a third water.

#220
Spiders silk is very strong material and it's weight basis has proven it to be stronger than steel.

#14
Every living thing on earth contains carbon.

#74
It takes over 20,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef.

#276
On an average day an adult spends 77mins eating.

#172
A person living to 75 yrs of age will have slept almost 23 years of their life.

#93
Buccula is the name given to a person's double chin.

Anonymous said...

#666
People with the names sarah and jess are proven to better than everyone else at everything.