Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Weird! But True... (:
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-There are more chickens than people in the world.
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
-A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
-Women blink twice as many times as men do.
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
-We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
-There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
-The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
-The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
-The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
-Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
-The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
-If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
-The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
-A baby is born every seven seconds.
-You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
-You breathe about 10 million times a year.
-The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
-The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
-The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
-The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
-The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
-The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
-The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
-After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
-A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
-Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
-There are more people alive today than have ever died.
-The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
-A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
-A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
-A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
-Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
-During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
-4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
-4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
-4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
-The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
-It is impossible to lick your elbow.[About 75% of ppl who read this try it]
-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
-If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat onr cup of coffee
-A ducks quack doesnt echo,and nobody knows why
-The "sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick" is said to be the toughest tounge twister in the english language
-If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib and if you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die if you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out
-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million people in the world
-The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
-The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
-"a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backward is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
-Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
-If you stand at the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars, even in the day time
-The most common Non-contagious disease in the world today is tooth decay
-The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed of India, who measured 1 foot 10 inches
-A cats jaw cannot move sideways
-Wearing headphones for just 1 hour, will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
-The worlds oldest piece of gum is 9000 years old.
-Mozart wrote Twinkle Twinkle little star at the age of 5 years old
-There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
-The youngest pope was eleven years old.
-You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you eat bananas
-If the world was tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be inhabitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles too cold.
-The average persons left hand does 56% of all typing
-The first man made item to exceed the speed of sound was a leather whip.
-You can burn more calories sleeping, than you do watching TV,
-Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors
-Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
-Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks that they are an ox
-Mosquito repellents don't repel. The spray blocks the mosquitoes sensors so they don't know you're there.
-The electric Chair was invented by a dentist
-Chocolate stimulates the release of endorphins in the body, Endorphins enhance ones mood and blocks pain.
-The reason honey is so easy to digest, is cause it's already been digested by bees.
-23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on them.
xox, credit to peppermint-dip!
Penny
The End.
4:29 PM
