some useless facts.
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Brooklynella;646989; said:
actually as sick as it may be (for the people who staged it,not for me watching it,lol) if you look hard enough you will find alot of staged animal fights,and tigers VS lions is a popular one,lions usually winning by a fair margin.
FACT-the first real Lion VS Tiger fight caught on film took place on the well-known Clyde Beatty film, "The Big Cage", documents a circus on the verge of bankruptcy. Beatty's attempted performance erupted into a shocking fight which was recorded on film.
In the story, Beatty tames the cats and continues in the tradition of 'the show must go on'. Privately Beatty admitted even he had no possible hope of separating the big cats and the lion went on to maul the tiger to death.
For over 50 years the scene was thought by viewers to be a well-staged dramatic scene, but is now recognised as a documentary showing an actual killing.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4318948967926803903&q=tiger
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1372882387110365632&q=tiger
and while your at it,might as well watch this one too,its got useless facts in it as well......
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6710211402317199827&q=tiger
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6710211402317199827&q=tiger
They are pretty much my favorite animal ever. A lion and a tiger mixed bred for its skills in magic.señor_pescados_felices;647311; said:
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-Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.
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-Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
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-Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers.
-The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year.
-The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.
-The brain requires 25 percent of all oxygen used by the body.
-Honolulu boasts the only royal palace in the U.S.
-The founder of JC Penny had the name of James Cash Penny.
-Females have 500 more genes than males, and because of this are protected from things like color blindness and hemophilia.
-Adolf Hitler had planned to change the name of Berlin to Germania.
-At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York's Central Park.
-Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
-Studies shown by the Psychology Department of DePaul University show that the principal reason to lie is to avoid punishment.
-When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as "the tragic lamppost" and nearly universally hated it.
-The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.
-"Soldiers disease" is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
-Thomas Jefferson anonymously submitted design plans for the White House. They were rejected.
-Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer together each year because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas fault.
-If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is about 2,000 tonnes.
-Trees do not have life expectancies like humans. Some in California are believed to be four-thousand years old or more. How can trees live so long? The simple answer is that they're not as complex as people. So, as long as conditions are right, trees continue to live and grow, until something interrupts it.
-South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's gold.
-You can see a candle flame from 50 Kilometers on a clear, dark night. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions. You can taste one gram of salt in 500 liters of water (.0001M). You can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment. You can detect the wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a height of one centimeter.
-Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
-A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.
-Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
-Adam Sandler and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male college freshmen.
-Surprisingly, there was a time that the Vatican owned shares of the Watergate complex in Washington DC, the Pan American building in Paris, and the Hilton hotel in Rome.
-Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
-When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
-Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.
-During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.
-A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water.
-Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
-No one seems to know why people blush.
-The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.
-Before beginning his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Canada.
-Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
-It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.
-Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
-The giant puffball, lycoperdon giganteum, produces 7,000,000,000,000 spores, each of which could grow into a puffball a foot in diameter and collectively cover an area of 280,000 square mile, greater than the size of Texas. Fortunately, only one of the spores actually becomes a puffball, and all the others die.
-Did you know that you can actually die from a broken heart? Studies have shown that people who had experienced great loss or sadness can develop cracks in their heart which could lead to death.
-Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day.
-George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
-By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
-The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas.
-Your jaw muscle is the most powerful muscle in your body.
-Howard Hughes' original fortune came from his father's invention of an oil drill bit capable of boring through subterranean rock.
-In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
-While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard da Vinci was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture.
-King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
-The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
-If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug.
-The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes
-The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees.
-Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.
-A plant in central Australia, the candlesticks of the sun, grows a candle-shaped flower once every 7 years.
-It is said that the human brain never actually forgets anything.All the info we have ever stored,everything we have ever seen or heard,felt or tasted in our life time,its all still there in the form of a memory waiting to be triggered.
-Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.
-Spontaneous human combustion is the process of the body's temperature becoming heated to the point that the body simply bursts into flame and incinerates. No one knows the actual cause of why this happens. Some blame a chemical reaction within the body, others blame supernatural causes.
-Michael Jackson was black.
-Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers.
-The Sahara desert is expanding half a mile south every year.
-The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.
Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever
Dumbest dog: 1) afghan
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of
the year
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
Men get hiccups more often than women
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up:
1 in 2.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class: $440,000
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists:
Washington DC
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if
they had it to do all over again: 80
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or
separation: 58
Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards: 105
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools
are above national average: 50
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan
Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"
Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of
buoying vessels over shoals
President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem:
Jimmy Carter
Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
Polar bears are left-handed
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Eskimos never gamble
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
The youngest pope was 11 years old
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner
Your nose and ears never stop growing
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
Dumbest dog: 1) afghan
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of
the year
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
Men get hiccups more often than women
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up:
1 in 2.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class: $440,000
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43
City with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists:
Washington DC
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if
they had it to do all over again: 80
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or
separation: 58
Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards: 105
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Percentage of mammal species that are: 3
Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools
are above national average: 50
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanan
Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"
Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of
buoying vessels over shoals
President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem:
Jimmy Carter
Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
Polar bears are left-handed
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Eskimos never gamble
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
The youngest pope was 11 years old
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner
Your nose and ears never stop growing
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
I'm curious as to where you got that one about the large felids. The reason that lions use one paw at a time is because of the fact that their postcranial muscle attaches to the scapula and the muscle of the upper arm. This configuration cannot stretch enough to allow the lion to use both paws. However, the lion swipes fromt he side with about 4x as much force as the tiger. They generally puncture a major vein or artery on the first try. Tigers rear up with both their paws and try to claw at an animal's back or snap its vertebrae. This takes more time. Still, I would bet on the tiger, just because it has a 250 pound advantage, and could fight the lion in the waterBrooklynella;646989;646989 said:In a theoritical battle between a Lion and a Tiger, Who would win?
Chuck Norris.
I keed.
The Tiger would win. Why? Tigers fight with both front paws, Lions swipe with only one front paw.
H2O (Water) is the only compound that's atomic mass is less as a solid than as a liquid. In other words, every other compound is heavier as a solid, water is lighter as a solid.
This is critical because if water were heavier as a solid, there would be no polar ice caps, ice cubes would sink and humans would not exist on this planet!
The first person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel was a Woman. She survived.
OK, of all the crap posted in this thread you guys pick me apart??
Everything I posted is from memory-I didn't look anything up on the internet and post it. I read each and every tidbit I posted and I did read that Tigers, in a theoretical battle with Lions would emerge victorious for the reason I noted. Lions do indeed have an advantage, I wouldn't want to fight either and Ditka would surely beat them both (Before the heart attack, of course).
Everything I posted is from memory-I didn't look anything up on the internet and post it. I read each and every tidbit I posted and I did read that Tigers, in a theoretical battle with Lions would emerge victorious for the reason I noted. Lions do indeed have an advantage, I wouldn't want to fight either and Ditka would surely beat them both (Before the heart attack, of course).
fishnutham;647408; said:
Only president to file a UFO report with the US Airforce?
Jimmy Carter. Too much Billy Beer I presume.
