Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Yay, facts! I
loove them, they are smart, shocking, and real !(well,
durh!)
Here's some of my pick, enjoy=] :
INTERESTING facts:
Most lipstick is partially made of fish scales. ( Poor guys, puckering up us
fishbreathe)
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.(Wait, mosquitoes have teeth?)
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E". ( He never used "the","then"...?what kinda novel is this?)
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine. (Apples: crunchy ,
munchy goodness.)
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. (Felt the itch when
ya'll sleep in bed, ain't it?)
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".( Come to think of it, hell yeah! )
The human brain is 80% water. ( I don't even wanna think about it.)
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum. ( I should try my hands on the chewing gum
business.)
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.( Goldfish=Unreliable pets)
Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.
Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
WEIRD facts:
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes.
In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.
It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards
COOL facts:
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
All polar bears are left handed.
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.
Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
Babies are born without knee caps.
Babies start dreaming even before they''re born.
Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
USELESS facts:
The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.).
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.(haha, i get it)
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. 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 only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Other facts:
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Jennifer Anistons original name is Jennifer Anastassakis!
Thats all folks!
I'm tired and bored again. lol
"When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red."
cryx
♥