Interesting Facts
I’ve been going through a lot of old stuff, purging, throwing things out. Ran across this:
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects? legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their Ii~time at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted heir.
The shortest war in histoty was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered ater 38 rrunutes.
A polar bear?s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words ?assassination? and ?bump.? (Actually he invented many others as well, check it out..)
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence ?the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog? uses every letter in the English language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word ?lethologica? descnbes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
?I am.? is the shortest complete sentence in the EngHsh language
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and
it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size torn birth, but our no.. and oars
never stop growing.
In every episode of Selnfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven bt, two inches tall and have a neck twice the
thickness of a normal hurnan?s neck.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to hew a
tillmoon. (wrong answer, we had one again in 1999)
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, m~s only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it bums.
There are two credit cards for ewiy person in the United States.
Cat?s wine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don?t appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age. -
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cottongrowers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it
as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book ?Peter Pan.?
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 8 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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 calones an hour.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that hew sex br pleasure.
On awrage, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE
it?s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You can?t kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the awrage set 18 acres of pizza ewry day.
Every time you lick a stamp, you?re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls owr on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are lelt-handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will liw nine days without its head, before it star~s to death
Butterflies taste with their feet. -
Elephants are the only animals that can?t jump.
An ostrich?s eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish haven?t got brains.
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