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103 INTRESTING FACTS
By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 10:08 am
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Shakespeare invented the word '
assassination' and 'bump'.
2. Stewardesses is the longest word
typed with only the left hand.
3. The ant always falls over on its right
side when intoxicated.
4. The electric chair was invented by a
dentist.
5. The human heart creates enough
pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
6. Wearing headphones for just an
hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear By 700 times.
7. Ants don't sleep.
8. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular
in shape, because of this, they
cannot move their eyes.
9. A bird requires more food in
proportion to its size than a baby or
a cat.
10. The mouse is the most common
mammal in the US.
11. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch
in length.
12. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses
of milk in her lifetime.
13. The Canary Islands were not named
for a bird called a canary. They were
named after a breed of large dogs.
The Latin name was Canariae insulae
- "Island of Dogs."
14. There are 701 types of pure breed
dogs.
15. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal
European weasel.
16. The animal responsible for the most
human deaths world-wide is the
mosquito.
17. The biggest pig in recorded history
was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North
Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904
pounds in 1939.
18. Cats respond most readily to names
that end in an "ee" sound.
19. A cat cannot see directly under its
nose. This is why the cat cannot
seem to find tidbits on the floor.
20. Pigs, walruses and light-colored
horses can be sunburned.
21. Snakes are immune to their own
poison.
22. An iguana can stay under water for
28 minutes.
23. Cats have more than one hundred
vocal sounds, while dogs only have
about ten.
24. The biggest member of the cat
family is the male lion, which weighs
528 pounds (240 kilograms).
25. Most lipstick contains
fish scales.
26. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18
months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.
27. Each day in the US, animal shelters
are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs
and cats.
28. A shrimp's heart is in their head.
29. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
30. A cockroach will live nine days
without its head, before it starves to
death.
31. The cat lover is an ailurophile, while
a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
32. A woodpecker can peck twenty
times a second.
33. It may take longer than two days for
a chick to break out of its shell.
34. Dragonflies are one of the fastest
insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
35. Despite man's fear and hatred of the
wolf, it has not ever been proved
that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a
human.
36. There are more than 100 million
dogs and cats in the United States.
37. Americans spend more than 5.4
billion dollars on their pets each
year.
38. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
39. The largest cockroach on record is
one measured at 3.81 inches in
length.
40. It is estimated that a single toad
may catch and eat as many as 10,000
insects in the course of a summer.
41. Amphibians eyes come in a variety
shapes and sizes. Some even have
square or heart-shaped pupils.
42. It would require an average of 18
hummingbirds to weigh in at 1
ounce.
43. Dogs that do not tolerate small
children well are the St. Bernard, the
Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan
malamute, the bull terrier, and the
toy poodle.
44. Moles are able to tunnel through 300
feet of earth in a day.
45. Howler monkeys are the noisiest
land animals. Their calls can be
heard over 2 miles away.
46. A quarter of the horses in the US
died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
47. The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed
swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220
miles per hour.
48. There is no single cat called the
panther. The name is commonly
applied to the leopard, but it is also
used to refer to the puma and the
jaguar. A black panther is really a
black leopard. A capon is a castrated
rooster.
49. The world's largest rodent is the
Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog
that looks like a guinea pig; it can
weigh more than 100 pounds.
50. The poison-arrow frog has enough
poison to kill about 2,200 people.
51. The hummingbird, the loon, the
swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe
are all birds that cannot walk.
52. The poisonous copperhead snake
smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
53. A chameleon's tongue is twice the
length of its body.
54. Worker ants may live seven years
and the queen may live as long as 15
years.
55. The blood of mammals is red, the
blood of insects is yellow, and the
blood of lobsters is blue.
56. Cheetahs make a chirping sound that
is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's
yelp. The sound is so intense; it can
be heard a mile away.
57. The underside of a horse's hoof is
called a frog. The frog peels off
several times a year with new
growth.
58. The bloodhound is the only animal
whose evidence is admissible in an
American court. 98% of brown bears
in the United States are in Alaska.
59. Before air conditioning was
invented, white cotton slipcovers
were put on furniture to keep the air
cool.
60. The Barbie doll has
more than 80 careers.
61. To make one pound of whole milk
cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is
needed.
62. 99% of pumpkins are sold for
decoration.
63. Every 30 seconds a house fire
doubles in size.
64. The month of December is the most
popular month for weddings in the
Philippines.
65. A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6
mg of caffeine.
66. Carbon monoxide can kill a person in
less than 15 minutes.
67. The largest ever hailstone weighed
over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in
1986.
68. Ants can live up to 16 years.
69. In Belgium, there is a museum that
is just for strawberries.
70. The sense of smell of an ant is just as
good as a dog's.
71. Popped popcorn should be stored in
the freezer or refrigerator as this
way it can stay crunchy for up to
three weeks.
72. Coca-Cola was originally green.
73. The most common name in the
world is Mohammed.
74. The name of all the continents ends
with the same letter that they start
with.
75. The strongest muscle in the body is
the tongue.
76. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that
can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
77. Women blink nearly twice as much
as men!!
78. You can't kill yourself by holding
your breath.
79. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
80. People say "Bless You? when you
sneeze because when you sneeze,
your heart stops for a millisecond.
81. It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.
82. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's
sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English
language.
83. If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a
sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
84. Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents great king from history.
Spades - King David, Clubs -
Alexander the Great, Hearts ?
Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius
Caesar.
85. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
86. 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 all
four legs on the ground, the person
died of natural causes.
87. What do bullet proof vests, fire
escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common? Ans. -
All invented by women.
88. This is the only food that doesn't
spoil. What is this? Answer: Honey.
89. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue
out.
90. A snail can sleep for three years.
91. All polar bears are left handed.
92. American Airlines saved $40,000 in
1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.
93. Butterflies taste with their feet.
94. Elephants are the only animals that
can't jump.
95. In the last 4000 years, no new
animals have been domesticated.
96. On average, people fear spiders
more than they do death.
97. The cigarette lighter was invented
before the match.
98. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
print is different.
99. Tapeworms range in size from about
0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in
length.
00. A baby bat is called a pup.
01. German Shepherds bite humans
more than any other breed of dog.
02. A female mackerel lays about
500,000 eggs at one time.
03. It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce
the average mink coat. The numbers
for other types of fur coats are:
beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine -
150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
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