Sootcork
Secret Organization Of The Collectors Of Rare Knowledge
Week's worth of rare knowledge: 9

Member(s) who submitted the most rare knowledge: Loone, and Loowo.
Past weeks' knowledge:
 
Knowledge posted by leaders would have their leader number on it.Example: Loone is 1. Knowledge posted by specific members  would have there number and code name on it.

1. Lobsters were thought to be inedible and was used as fertilizer.

1. The crabs in Japan are the largest.

1. The Japanese Spider Crab is peaceful and often kept as a pet in large tanks.

1. Horses can yawn. (Dogs, cats, and hamsters yawn too.)

1. Some farmers use the gas from poop as fuel to power their homes.

1. Every year humans cause one animal species to become extinct without knowing it.

1. There may be no more apes (Chimps, gorillas, orangutans, etc.) left in the world in 2030.

1. America consumes almost 1/4 of the whole worlds energy.

1. Every minute people cut down 2,000 trees from a rainforest. (That's obviously a bad thing!)

1. The Earth's weight is about 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Kilograms.

1. 16% of the money you pay for a product goes to packaging. (You throw away that 16%!)

1. 80% of an average car can be recycled.

1. It doesn't matter how many times you recycle glass, it won't get less clear.

1. Plastic will take about 500 years to start decomposing.

1. Aztecs sacrificed about 20,000 people a year to their gods.

1. A typical Aztec man only lived for about 37 years.

1. Aztecs took prisoners of war to the top of the great pyramid, cut out their hearts, cut off their heads, then threw the bodies down the steps so the people below can eat them.

1. An Aztec's normal dinner would be; corn, beans, tomatoes, chillies, bugs, and fish. A higher ranked Aztec would eat people.

1. You can poke your brain (still in your head) and not feel it.

1. There is no actual cure to a cold the medicine just weakens the virus a little. You just have to wait for your body to beat the virus.

1. Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.

1. The world's longest movie was 87 hours. It was called "The Cure for Insomnia".

1. The first film screening in public was called "Train Pulling Into a Station" the crowd of people watching never saw anything like it, so they thought the train will come out of the screen and run over them. Th people ran and screamed in terror. It was in Paris,France December 28, 1845.

1. An album must sell at least 500,000 copies to go gold.

1. Star wars had 14 special effects every minute of the movie.

2. Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween

2. Trichophobia - Fear of Hair

2. Ablutophobia -Fear of Washing or Bathing

2. Urophobia - Fear of Pee or Peeing

2. Stasibusiphobia - Fear of Walking or Standing

2. Sihistrophobia - Fear of anything to the left

2. Verbophobia - Fear of Words

2. Numerophobia - Fear of Numbers

1. Snails can sleep for three years.

1. Swiss cheese gets it's holes because the bacteria inside of it farts.

1. The huge 9.0 earthquake in Japan was felt around Beijing.

1. They found a 5,000 year old piece of gum in Finland.

1. The # sign is called a octothorpe.

1. On a 500 B.C. vase in Greece, there was a picture of a boy playing with a yo-yo. (There were yo-yos in 500 B.C.!)

1. There are two times more kangaroos in Australia than people.

1. Almost is the longest English word that is in alphabetical order. (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)

1. Your thigh bone is as strong as concrete.

1. A neologist is a person who makes new words.

1. Camels have three eyelids.

1. Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel.

1. Donkeys can see all their legs.

1. Lethologica means you cannot remember a word you want to say/write.

1. Giraffes can lick their ears.

1. You burn more calories sleeping than watching television.

1. 1/4 of all the bones in your body are in your feet.

1. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

1. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

1. There are twice as many chickens than all the people in the world.

1. Your big toe is called a hallux.

1. Slugs have four noses.

1. The California flag was supposed to be a pear not a bear.

1. The edge of a dime has 118 slits.

1. Set has the most definitions in the English dictionary.

1. Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a year!

1. "Ough" can be pronounced eight different ways.

1. Tigers don't only have striped fur, they also have striped skin.

1. Jimmy Carter is the only president born in a hospital in 1924.

1. One day on Venus is 243 Earth days.

1. Oranges are technically berries.

1. There are exactly 10,000 kinds of Apples grown in the world.

1. Orange trees are the most commonly grown tree in the world.

1. Mangoes are related to poison ivy.

1. Mangoes will ripen quickly if put in a bag with a ripe banana in it.

1. Young chickens are called " broilers".

1. Orange or lemon juice can do many things including, melt styrofoam, pop an inflated rubber balloon, and if you spray it next to an open fire the juice will burst into flames.

1. In 1938, a coelacanths (see-la-kanth) was found. This ancient fish was alive before the dinosaurs! Those fish have not, of course, lived for all those years but they have had fry and these fry became parents and they had fry. The process continued and now few of the unevolved coelacanths still live today.

1. Baby fish are called " fry ".

1. Chimpanzees like popping bubble wrap like humans, but usually don't get dizzy.

1. Peaches, apples, plums, strawberries, raspberries, and cherries are all roses.

1. There are more types of beetles than mammals.

1. Snails can sleep up to three years.

1. There are more germs in your mouth than people on the Earth.

1. ESP stands for Extra Sensory Perception.

1. 1 out of 5 people have some ESP.

1. Michael Jackson's middle name is Joseph.

4. Goldfish can only hold 5 seconds worth of memory.

1. Pears may develop black specks if stored in a low oxygen environment.

1.The passion fruit's flower is the national flower of Paraguay.

1. Fresh mangoes are the most eaten fruit in the world.

1. Most of the vitamin C in pears are in the skin.

1. Adding half a cup of lemon juice to your laundry with your detergent, brightens your whites.

1.People who don't like any kind of art or music ia called a philistine.

1. Bananas are actually berries, not fruits.

1. Berries aren't fruits.

1. Freddy Krueger, the main evil character from, "Nightmare on Elm Street" , got it's name from the directer/writer's high school bully.

1. In the 1800's, people thought drinking "tea" from boiled shoes would cure any disease.

1. More babies are born in the month of September than any other month. ( I was born in September! )


1. Nine muscles are in your ear.

1. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

1. If you try to count to a billion it would take you 31.7 years!

1. Drachma means handful.

1.The darker green a vegetable, the more vitamin C.

1. Blesbok antelopes are purple.

1. Mayonnaise is a good alternative for skin moisturizer.

1. The typewriter was invented before the pen. (fail)

1. In 2007, NASA found water in artificial moon dust.

1. Duchshund is the same as dashound.

1. The peace sign is devided into three parts not four. It is devided into love, respect, and no war.

2. At TheCheeky.com they will taxidermy a pig and make a "piggy bank" for you.














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