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100.... FUN FACTS
By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 10:15 am
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months
and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to
heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion
to its size in the human body is the
tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough
pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall
uses 150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it
is mixed with saliva. For example, if
strong-tasting substance like salt is
placed on a dry tongue, the taste
buds will not be able to taste it. As
soon as a drop of saliva is added and
the salt is dissolved, however, a
definite taste sensation results. This
is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in
seven minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new
layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself
Humans are the only primates that
don't have pigment in the palms of
their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people
who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
It's possible to lead a cow
upstairs...but not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind
feet, and five on their front feet.
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.
A cockroach will live nine days
without it's head, before it starves to
death.
The male praying mantis cannot
copulate while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by
ripping the males head off.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mamals that
can't jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no
one knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's
brain.
The longest recorded flight of a
chicken is thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are
virtually indistinguishable from
those of humans, so much so that
they could be confused at a crime
scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without
eating
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal
besides humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at
a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The longest recorded flight of a
chicken is thirteen seconds.
A male emperor moth can smell a
female emperor moth up to 7 miles
away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its
21-inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by
torpedoing up into to shark's
stomach from underneath, causing
the shark to explode.
Ten percent of the Russian
government's income comes from
the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of
playing the first four moves per side
in a game of chess is
318,979,564,000.
The sentence "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog." uses every
letter in the alphabet. (Developed by
Western Union to Test telex/two
communications)
The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word
that is typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language
rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete
sentence in the English language.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12
letters.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
If you spell out consecutive
numbers, you have to go up to one
thousand until you would find the
letter "a"
Men can read smaller print than
women; women can hear better
than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers, and laser printers
were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular
stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by
horses. The horses were stabled on
the ground floor and figured out
how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was
the "American Pie." (Thus the name
of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David; Clubs -
Alexander the Great; Hearts -
Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius
Caesar.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if
injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't
spoil.
If you put a raisin in a glass of
champagne, it will keep floating to
the top and sinking to the bottom.
Only one person in two billion will
live to be 116 or older.
It was discovered on a space mission
that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up its stomach first, so the
stomach is dangling out of its
mouth.Then the frog uses its
forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then
swallows the stomach back down
again.
If NASA sent birds into space they
would soon die; they need gravity to
swallow.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the
seventh floor of a building, it has
about thirty percent less chance of
surviving than a cat that falls off the
twentieth floor. It supposedly takes
about eight floors for the cat to
realise what is occurring, relax and
correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk
backwards, and are on the Australian
coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the
Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin
Zoo.
More people are killed annually by
donkeys than die in aircrashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid,
then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
A shark can detect one part of blood
in 100 million parts of water.
A rat can last longer without water
than a camel.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's
jaws, push your thumbs into its
eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it
will not be heads 5000 times,but
more like 4950. The heads picture
weighs more, so it ends up on the
bottom.
Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.
The 3 most valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
Coca Cola was originally green.
40% of McDonald's profits come from
the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue
print.
The most common name in the
world is Mohammed.
Intelligent people have more zinc
and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8
and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when
he was nine. His parents thought he
might be retarded.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with
one hand and draw with the other at
the same time.
Sherlock Holmes never said
"Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart
never said "Play it again, Sam".
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time:
1/100th of a second.
Months that begin on a Sunday will
always have a "Friday the 13th."
First novel ever written on a
typewriter: Tom Sawyer
The mask used by Michael Myers in
the original film "Halloween" was
actually a Captain Kirk mask painted
white.
James Doohan, who plays Lt.
Commander Montgomery Scott on
Star Trek, is missing the entire
middle finger of his right hand.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur'
a small red car can be seen in the
distance.
The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time television
were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny)
was allergic to carrots.
Every day more money is printed for
monopoly than the US Treasury.
The city with the most Roll Royces
per capita: Hong Kong
Percentage of Africa that is
wilderness: 28% Percentage of North
America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were
life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog
to the age of 11: £4000
Clans of long ago that wanted to get
rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn
their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."
The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for
the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The term "whole 9 yards" came from
WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes
on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured
exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all
their ammo at a target, it got the
"whole 9 yards."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is
derived from an old English law
which stated that you couldn't beat
your wife with anything wider than
your thumb.
The US Interstate road system was
designed so that one mile in every
five must be straight. These straight
sections are usable as airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each
gallon of fuel that it burns.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a
divorce if her husband doesn't give
her coffee.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a
tittle.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned
from Finland because he doesn't
wear trousers.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as
medicine
You can tell from the statue of a
mounted horseman how the rider
died. If all four of the horse's feet are
on the ground, he died of natural
causes. One foot raised means he
died from wounds suffered in battle.
Two legs raised means he died in
action.
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