some silly things...

i was bored so i just added this page for the sake of doing something to my site. this is a page of silly lil facts i collected. enjoy. lol...
Edit (7/4/07): Thats it. no more. otherwise this page will become its own encyclopaedia...

Did you know...?

Chocolate stimulates the release of endorphins in the body. Endorphins enhance one's mood & block pain.
Cats have oner one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood, we have only 206 bones in our bodies.
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
The human eye sees everything upside down, but the brain turns everything right side up.
A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
it is impossible to lick your own elbow
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The average human body makes enough carbon for 900 pencils.
Althaiophobia is a fear of marshmallows.
Our eyes are always the same from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
On average, ppl fear spiders more than death.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
The first known contrceptive was crocodile dung, used by the Egyptians in 2000 BC.
Like fingerprints, everone's tongue prints are different.
The honeybee kills more ppl worldwide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
Each year insects eat one third of the world's food crop.
During a 24 hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times, exercise 7 million brain cells and speak 4800 words.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Only female ducks can quack.
During a kiss, as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.
The average human body contains enough phosphorus to make 2200 match heads.
No 2 spider webs are the same.
It is estimated that at any one time 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
The ant can life 50 times its own weight and cane pull 30 times its own weight.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow ppl down instead of speed them up, in order to reduce typewriter faults caused by fast typing
the average person will eat 70 insects in their sleep in their lifetime 10 of which are spiders
the sun is so distant from earth that its light reaches earth billions of years after it was sent out
70% of ppl who read this will try to lick their elbow
according to the Oxford English Dictionary floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest real word. Other longer words are said to be factitious as they are made purely for the sake of being a long word. however, it is said that the actual longest word or chemical name is the DNA string which consists of 1909 letters.
the length from the tip of your head to your toes is always 1.618 times that of the length from your belly button to your toes. As is the case for many other body part areas and occurs a lot in nature. This ratio 1:1.618 is also known as the number PHI.
cats have better senses & memories than dogs.
the pupil of an eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing
an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
by law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at promary school
while performing her duties as Queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard
you share your birthday with at least 9 million other ppl in the world
the shortest war history was between Zanzibar & England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after only 38 minutes
babies are born without kneecaps, and only grow when the child reaches 2-6 years of age
because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if it is thrown West
the average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap
the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
people say, "bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond
it is physically impossible for pigs to look up to the sky
a polar bear's skin is black. its fur is not white but actually clear
more ppl are killed by donkeys annually than in air crashes
35% of ppl who use personal dating ads are already married
its impossible to keep your eyes open during a sneeze because the eyelids are needed to keep the eyeball from popping out
50000 cells in your body will have died and been replaced by new cells while you have been reading this sentence
you are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark
leornardo da vinci invented scissors
lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they're an ox
reindeer like to eat bananas
mosquito repellents don't repel. the spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they don't know you're there
in 4000 BC Egypt, men & women wore glitter eye shadows made from the crushed shells of beetles
butterflies taste with their feet
0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose
the average person laughs about 15 times a day
the most venomous spider in the world is actually a veri common household pest: the daddy long legs spider. however it's only dangerous if its venom gets into the bloodstream - ie.when it comes across a wound, since it can't bite ppl itself
a duck's quack doesn't echo. no one knows why
a pig's orgasm lasts 30 min while some lions mate over 50 times a day
a cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death
the male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. the female intiates sex by ripping the male's head off
a shrimp's heart is in its head
ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth everyday
every yr the sun loses 360 million tons
every yr, the moon moves 3.82cm away from the Earth
the REAL reasons ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50000 words, none of which containing the letter "e"
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton
termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
if coloring weren't added to Coca-cola, it would be green
there are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee
apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
"stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand - assuming you type properly
on avg, a 4 yr old asks 437 questions a day
the cockroash has a high resistance to radiaion and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war (unless its head gets knocked off)
the yo-yo originated from a weapon in the Philippines
the original reason why there are buttons on sleeves because to prevent people from the Medieval times from wiping their nose on their sleeves. If they do wipe their nose with their sleeves the buttons would would make their nose itchy
a shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Marilyn Monroe had six toes... eleven total
banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories per hour
ironically, Walt Disney was afraid of mice
the main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch year, because when it was bulit, engineers falied to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the buliding
a crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
the Guiness Book of Record holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries
soldiers never march at the same time when crossing a bridge to prevent the it from collapsing
we dream in color every night but only certain times do we remember it. if we do remember the dream, the color will eventually become black and white
the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
Uluru is taller than the tallest living tree in the world, at over 340m
Aoccdrnig to rsceearh at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
40 ppl are sent to hospital for dog bites ever minute
Charlie Chaplin once won 3rd prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest
peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
no words in the english language rhyme with month, orange, silver or purple
every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 0.1 of a calorie
the modern flushing toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper
the human brain is about 85% water
in ancient egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including eyebrows and eyelashes
the Neanderthal Man's brain is bigger than modern man's
about 10% of the world is left handed
the average human body contains enough iron to make 7.62cm nail
a raisin if placed in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom
you can hear the tick of a watch from 6m in veri quiet conditions
most lipsticks contain fish scales
it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown
a fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip
most ppl fear public speaking more than death
the avg human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon
the poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers
more than 50% of the ppl in the world have never made or recieved a telephone call
some lions mate over 50 times a day
the avg person grows about 0.64cm each night
in a study of 200000 ostriches over a period of 80 yrs, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand
a cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of up to 100kph
bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers & windshield wipers were all invented by women
starfish don't have brains
the avg human will drink about 72737 litres of water in a lifetime
the largest no. of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia
if you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. if you try to supress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
the catfish has more than 27000 taste buds
one human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all of the world's telephones put together
the bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissable in an American court
on avg, 13 ppl die each yr from vending machines falling on them
an elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human
the total length of all eyelashes shed in their lifetime is over 30m
a typical bed is hoe to over 6 billion dust mites
you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cock than by a spider
a cow gves nearly 200000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
there are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
turtles & honeybees are both deaf
if you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white
between the ages of 30 - 70, your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5cm
clouds float higher during the day than at night
1.5 billion kg of chocolate are consumed worldwide each yr
you can stop a sneeze by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth
a crocodile can't stick out it tongue
the toilet seat is has 400 times less bacteria than the desk and hence much cleaner
Albert Einstein's brain went missing soon after he died in 1955. the brain is in fact no more special than a normal person's, and it has been found and placed back into its hiding place in Princeton.
you must remove 99.9968% of the Sun's energy in order to look at the sun without being blinded
too much tv can stop teenage boys from growing
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Is it a coincidence that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopywritable'?
When people are snoring, they're not dreaming.
Elephants (and some other animals) sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history:
    Spades: King David
    Clubs: Alexander the Great,
    Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
    Hearts: Charlemagne
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the
air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse
has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in firstclass.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
The vocab of the avg person consists of 5000-6000 words
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
Mozart wrote "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" when he was 5
There are 3 golf balls sitting on the moon
The avg person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock 3 times each morning
The liquid inside young cocnuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma
The youngest pope was 11
From the age of 30, humans gradually begin to shrink
On December 15, 2005, Curtis Cooper's and Steven Boone's computer found the largest known prime number. It is 230402457-1 which has 9,152,052 digits which you can get at http://www.mersenne.org/prime9.txt
Libya's flag consists of only one colour:green. It is the only nation with one colour.
One seventh of your life is spent on Mondays.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The followingsentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-facedploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. The city of Chicago actually has a law that no person may eat inside a building that is on fire.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
a dime has 118 ridges around the edge
a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
a crocodile cannot stick out its tongue
a dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
a goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds
a 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a secnd
a shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
a snail can sleep for 3 years
almonds are a member of the peach family
cats have over 100 vocal sounds. dogs only have 10
february 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
'stewardeses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand, 'lollipop' with your right. the average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
the microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar meled in his pocket
the sentence 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet
the winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
there are 2 words in the english language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious'
'typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies'room during a dance
women blink nearly twice as much as men
there are more people in the world who eat alligators than there are alligators that eat people
when viewed from above, rainbows appear donut-shaped
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is about 2.5m in length
a cat keeps purring when inhaling and exhaling
an ostrich egg can make 11.5 omelettes
the strength of all the hairs on one human head can support the weight of approximately 100 ppl
the average speed of an avalnche is 35km/h
the hair of an adult can stretch 25% of its length without breaking.
the starfish has five limbs and can regrow 4 of them, as long as its central body is not harmed.
90% of all living things in the sea are made up of plankton
prior to being introduced, Australia did not have any members of the cat family, hoofed animals, apes or monkeys
it takes approximately 7 years for a lobster to grow to 500g
in Pacific Grove, California, it is a midemeanour to kill a butterfly
The literal translation of the word wonton is "swallowing a cloud" [..]
90-95% of al sensory perceptions are accounted for by sight
lungs are 100 times easier to blow up than a child's balloon
chocolates contain the chemical that your brain produces when you fall in love - phenylethylamine
a blue whale's heart beats 9 times per min
a snail can sleep for 3 years
the valves of the human heart are as thick as a single piece of tissue paper
a claque refers to a group of people hired to applaud an act or performer
The Guinness World Record for the longest continuous bout of hiccups (1922�1990) goes to Charles Osborne (1894�1991) from Anthon, Iowa. The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping in February 1990 � a total of 68 years.
There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.
A tightrope walker is called a funambulist
Flounder swim sideways
The human eye can, given enough time to adjust, see almost as well as an owl's.
The rush of air produced by a cough can approach 1000km/hr
It takes a tonne of ore to produce one gold wedding ring.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 482kg.
Road Runner has only been caught by Wile E Coyote once, on 21 May 1980.
The average weight loss of a racehorse during a race is between 6kg and 10kg.
The male fox will mate for life. If the female dies he remains single till death.
A 500gm loaf of bread requires 2 tonnes of water to grow the wheat to produce it.
Only 2 animals can see completely behind themselves without turning their heads: the rabbit & the parrot.
A 55kg crocodile exerts a force of approximately 700kg between its jaws
26min of slow dancing will burn about 420 kilojoules
An avg snail moves at a rate of 58cm/hr
Vintage port takes 40 yrs to reach maturity
Around 4 billion litres of petroleum is consumed throughout the world each day.
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
The term cop came from England. It's short for Constable On Patrol
Chickens can travel up to 15km per hour.
An anteater is nearly 6 feet long yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
Only fully grown male crickets can chirp.
Hot water weighs more than cold water
the average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting for a traffic light to change
koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints
penguins have an organ above their eyes that changes seawater to freshwater
strawberries are the only fruit whose seeds grow on the outside
the first vacuum was so large it was brought to a house by horses