Interesting Facts
+ A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
+ In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
+ Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
+ After the Popeye comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
+ There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
+ The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
+ India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
+ The first ever World Summit on Toilets was held in Singapore in November 2001.
+ Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
+ Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
+ In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
+ Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
+ A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
+ After 8 months, babies are more likely to get a diaper rash.
+ In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.
+ The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
+ Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting
+ No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. (a lot of my friends tried. they got all smug and `challengy`, they lost and I ended up wid 5$ more in my pocket. heh heh)
+ If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
+ Dark colors tend to absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. That`s why you might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one
+ The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
+ The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 660 lbs
+ On average people fear spiders more than they do death. (Raises hand. I`m one of them)
+ [bzzt!] Moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light. (sad for the ones that do fly to the light.. haha)
+ The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. (most of you already know this, ryte?)
+ The rhinoceros`s horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernails
+ It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (wait.. I think I`ve done it b4...)
+ Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? (no.. did not kno e dat.. how do u get killed dat way??!)
+ Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (I`m a righty!!)
+ In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. (...ouch?)
+ The act of snapping one`s fingers is called a "fillip".
+ The dot on top of the letter `i` is called a tittle.
+ Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
+ Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.
+ A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
+ The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
+ The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. (heh heh.. shaved for the queen, eh?)
+ A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
+ The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
+ Polar bears are left handed.
+ The smallest known egg is the egg of the Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima of Jamacia and nearby islets. The egg is barely the size of a pea and measures less than 10 mm in length and weighs 0.356 g.
+ The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
+ The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
+ Butterflies taste with their feet.
+ Elephants are the only animals that can`t jump. ( thank god!!)
+ An ostrich`s eye is bigger than it`s brain. (sad..)
+ cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known. (hate roaches..die..)
+ Starfishes haven`t got brains.
+ Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.
+ The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them.
+ The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year =(
+ A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers. A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm.
+ INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT
+ One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
+ A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
+ A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory
+ INTESTINES has each of its letters occurring twice.
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+ A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
+ In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
+ Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
+ After the Popeye comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
+ There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
+ The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
+ India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
+ The first ever World Summit on Toilets was held in Singapore in November 2001.
+ Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
+ Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
+ In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
+ Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
+ A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
+ After 8 months, babies are more likely to get a diaper rash.
+ In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.
+ The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
+ Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting
+ No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. (a lot of my friends tried. they got all smug and `challengy`, they lost and I ended up wid 5$ more in my pocket. heh heh)
+ If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
+ Dark colors tend to absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. That`s why you might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one
+ The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
+ The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 660 lbs
+ On average people fear spiders more than they do death. (Raises hand. I`m one of them)
+ [bzzt!] Moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light. (sad for the ones that do fly to the light.. haha)
+ The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. (most of you already know this, ryte?)
+ The rhinoceros`s horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernails
+ It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (wait.. I think I`ve done it b4...)
+ Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? (no.. did not kno e dat.. how do u get killed dat way??!)
+ Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (I`m a righty!!)
+ In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. (...ouch?)
+ The act of snapping one`s fingers is called a "fillip".
+ The dot on top of the letter `i` is called a tittle.
+ Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
+ Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.
+ A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
+ The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
+ The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. (heh heh.. shaved for the queen, eh?)
+ A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
+ The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
+ Polar bears are left handed.
+ The smallest known egg is the egg of the Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima of Jamacia and nearby islets. The egg is barely the size of a pea and measures less than 10 mm in length and weighs 0.356 g.
+ The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
+ The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
+ Butterflies taste with their feet.
+ Elephants are the only animals that can`t jump. ( thank god!!)
+ An ostrich`s eye is bigger than it`s brain. (sad..)
+ cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known. (hate roaches..die..)
+ Starfishes haven`t got brains.
+ Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.
+ The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them.
+ The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year =(
+ A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers. A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm.
+ INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT
+ One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
+ A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
+ A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10-9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory
+ INTESTINES has each of its letters occurring twice.
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