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61 intresting facts
By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 10:10 am
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In the weightlessness of space a
frozen pea will explode if it comes in
contact with Pepsi.
2. The increased electricity used by
modern appliances is causing a shift
in the Earth's magnetic field. By the
year 2327, the North Pole will be
located in mid-Kansas, while the
South Pole will be just off the coast of
East Africa.
3. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek"
came from gerbils, since some
gerbils are actually born pregnant.
4. Male rhesus monkeys often hang
from tree branches by their amazing
prehensile penises.
5. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the
Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even
though he spent the entire season
batting with a rolled-up, lacquered
copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
6. Smearing a small amount of dog
feces on an insect bite will relieve
the itching and swelling.
7. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying
upside-down if it weren't for the fact
that the wings would shear off when
trying to roll it over.
8. The trucking company Elvis Presley
worked at as a young man was
owned by Frank Sinatra.
9. The only golf course on the island of
Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no
penalty if a monkey steals your golf
ball.
10. Legislation passed during WWI
making it illegal to say "gesundheit"
to a sneezer was never repealed.
11. Manatees possess vocal chords
which give them the ability to speak
like humans, but don't do so because
they have no ears with which to
hear the sound.
12. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at
depths of 33 feet or below.
13. Catfish are the only animals that
naturally have an ODD number of
whiskers.
14. Replying more than 100 times to the
same piece of spam e-mail will
overwhelm the sender's system and
interfere with their ability to send
any more spam.
15. Polar bears can eat as many as 86
penguins in a single sitting.
16. The first McDonald's restaurant
opened for business in 1952 in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured
the McHaggis sandwich.
17. The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses
aerodynamics discovered during
research into how bumblebees fly.
18. You can get blood from a stone, but
only if contains at least 17 percent
bauxite.
19. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the
residue left behind after the first
latex condoms were produced. It's
not widely publicized for obvious
reasons.
20. Approximately one-sixth of your life
is spent on Wednesdays.
21. The skin needed for elbow
transplants must be taken from the
scrotum of a cadaver.
22. The sport of jai alai originated from
a game played by Incan priests who
held cats by their tails and swung at
leather balls. The cats would
instinctively grab at the ball with
their claws, thus enabling players to
catch them.
23. A cat's purr has the same romance-
enhancing frequency as the voice of
singer Barry White.
24. The typewriter was invented by
Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop,
who left his "signature" on the
keyboard.
25. The volume of water that the Giant
Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour
period contains enough suspended
minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane
concrete freeway.
26. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic
axe.
27. Because printed materials are being
replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and
the Internet, libraries that previously
sank into their foundations under
the weight of their books are now in
danger of collapsing in extremely
high winds.
28. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got
stuck in his imaginary box and
consequently died of starvation.
29. Touch-tone telephone keypads were
originally planned to have buttons
for Police and Fire Departments, but
they were replaced with * and #
when the project was cancelled in
favor of developing the 911 system.
30. Human saliva has a boiling point
three times that of regular water.
31. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes"
comic strip, was patterned after
President Calvin Coolidge, who had a
pet tiger as a boy.
32. Watching an hour-long soap opera
burns more calories than watching a
three-hour baseball game.
33. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes
contained minute particles of real
camels.
34. You can actually sharpen the blades
on a pencil sharpener by wrapping
your pencils in aluminum foil before
inserting them.
35. To human taste buds, Zima is
virtually indistinguishable from
zebra urine.
36. Seven out of every ten hockey-
playing Canadians will lose a tooth
during a game. For Canadians who
don't play hockey, that figure drops
to five out of ten.
37. A dog's naked behind leaves
absolutely no bacteria when pressed
against carpet.
38. A team of University of Virginia
researchers released a study
promoting the practice of picking
one's nose, claiming that the health
benefits of keeping nasal passages
free from infectious blockages far
outweigh the negative social
connotations.
39. Among items left behind at Osama
bin Laden's headquarters in
Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad
Magazine. Al Qaeda members have
admitted that bin Laden is
reportedly an avid reader.
40. Urine from male cape water
buffaloes is so flammable that some
tribes use it for lantern fuel.
41. At the first World Cup championship
in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls
were actually monkey skulls
wrapped in paper and leather.
42. Every Labrador retriever dreams
about bananas.
43. If you put a bee in a film canister for
two hours, it will go blind and leave
behind its weight in honey.
44. Due to the angle at which the optic
nerve enters the brain, staring at a
blue surface during sex greatly
increases the intensity of orgasms.
45. Never hold your nose and cover your
mouth when sneezing, as it can blow
out your eyeballs.
46. Centuries ago, purchasing real estate
often required having one or more
limbs amputated in order to prevent
the purchaser from running away to
avoid repayment of the loan. Hence
an expensive purchase was said to
cost "an arm and a leg."
47. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an
autopsy revealed five gold
Krugerrands in his small intestine.
48. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes,
but only during summer months.
49. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of
Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription
found in his tomb, when translated,
was found to be almost identical to
the recipe used today.
50. If you part your hair on the right
side, you were born to be
carnivorous. If you part it on the left,
your physical and psychological
make-up is that of a vegetarian.
51. When immersed in liquid, a dead
sparrow will make a sound like a
crying baby.
52. In WWII the US military planned to
airdrop over France propaganda in
the form of Playboy magazine, with
coded messages hidden in the
models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The
plan was scrapped because of a
staple shortage due to rationing of
metal.
53. Although difficult, it's possible to
start a fire by rapidly rubbing
together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
54. Napoleon's favorite type of wood
was knotty chestnut.
55. The world's smartest pig, owned by
a mathematics teacher in Madison,
WI, memorized the multiplication
tables up to 12.
56. Due to the natural "momentum" of
the ocean, saltwater fish cannot
swim backwards.
57. In ancient Greece, children of
wealthy families were dipped in
olive oil at birth to keep them
hairless throughout their lives.
58. It is nearly three miles farther to fly
from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville,
Kentucky than it is to return from
Louisville to Amarillo.
59. The "nine lives" attributed to cats is
probably due to their having nine
primary whiskers.
60. The original inspiration for Barbie
dolls comes from dolls developed by
German propagandists in the late
1930s to impress young girls with
the ideal notions of Aryan features.
The proportions for Barbie were
actually based on those of Eva Braun.
61. The Venezuelan brown bat can
detect and dodge individual
raindrops in mid-flight, arriving
safely back at his cave completely
dry.
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