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04-01-2010, 08:25 AM
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Alekz
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Things you didn't know.It's funny to read and helps you to pass some time..
Thanks for reading!
Did you know????:
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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 first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman
to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.
It is NOT impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
If a statue in the park of a person 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.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the "honeymoon".
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them, "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow?
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The 19 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Death*
1. After being decapitated, the average person remains conscious for an additional 15-20 seconds. Talk about a way to go.
2. Mourning your dear departed cat? You could shave your eyebrows like the ancient Egyptians used to. Then again, maybe a trip to the pet cemetery would be easier.
3. May want to rethink what you bury your loved ones in. An old wives’ tale claims that if a woman is buried wearing the color black, she’ll come back to haunt the family.
4. Speaking of preventing hauntings, yet another old wives tale led to the institution of burial wreaths. It was believed that the wreath would encircle the spirit of the dead person, thereby preventing them from returning from the grave.
5. In 1931, Henry Ford decided to preserve his friend, Thomas Edison’s last dying breath. He kept it in a bottle. Hope he put a label on that one.
6. One of the main reasons cowboys carried pistols in the 1800’s was to avoid being dragged to death by their horse. You think they could have just gotten bigger stirrups.
7. The last words spoken by Union General John Sedgewick were, “They (the Confederate soldiers) couldn’t hit an elephant from this dis…”
8. So much for the curse of good ole King Tut. Despite reports that all twenty-two people who were present at the exhumation kicked the bucket, twenty-one were still kicking ten years later.
9. If someone plans to jump off Mount Everest to commit suicide, you’ll need a lot of patience. It takes the average person 2.5 minutes to hit bottom. And we don’t want to know who timed it.
10. Here’s a job I definitely wouldn’t want to have. When Pyrenees beekeepers die, someone has to go around and splash every single one of their bees with black ink.
11. John Bowman, a tanner from Vermont believed that after his death he would be reincarnated with his pre-deceased wife and children. So, he ordered his house staff to have dinner on the table every night, just in case. They finally stopped in 1950 when the money finally dried up.
12. Think your décor is bad? Oscar Wilde’s last words were, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go" He fought the wallpaper and the wallpaper won.
13. An old superstition stated that if the doors in the house were locked, the soul of a dying person couldn’t get out.
14. Yet another superstition warns against pointing at a funeral procession, with the dire warning that you’ll die within a month. More proof for that whole three fingers pointing back at you thing.
15. Might want to read the labels a little more carefully. Nearly 2,500 lefties are killed every year using products meant for righties. Who knew? Now, just back away from those right-handed scissors.
16. A pet-parrot caused a ruckus at President Andrew Jackson’s funeral. His crime? Swearing during the ceremony. Guess he should have given Polly just one more cracker.
17. That ballpoint pen? The one you’re chewing on? Might want to put it down. 100 people are killed every year by choking on a ballpoint pen. Which proves the old quote about the pen being mightier than the sword. At least some of the time.
18. Apparently, they really are virtually indestructible. A cockroach can reportedly live up to 9 days without its head. The only reason they finally kick over? Starvation.
19. And you thought sex appeal was the first to go. Allegedly, it’s actually your sight that goes first when you die. It’s your hearing that’s the last to go…. What was that?
If you have any facts in life or from life,feel free to post them here as well!!!Thanks!
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If more people seem to like it,i'll put up more "FACTS OF LIFE"
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04-07-2010, 08:40 AM
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Alekz
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And to all (ahum) you lovers of "facts of life",I bring you brand new ones:ENJOY!!!
Amazing Fact 1: In 1996, US Congress passed a law which clearly states that all school children in Florida must be taught to walk on their eyeballs, in order to avoid alligator attacks.
Amazing Fact 2: Projectile vomiting is considered a mainstream Olympic sport amongst peasants in Eastern Europe. The event is nationally televised and is sponsored by local pharmaceutical companies.
Amazing Fact 3: Due to its unique modifiable structure, the African elephant can squeeze its body through a hole the size of a pea.
Amazing Fact 4: Nasal discharge from Orangutans is often used in the manufacture of smoke alarms.
Amazing Fact 5: During the 1600s, Spanish sailors would often cover themselves in dog poop to ward off sea monsters. This method is still used today by the British Navy and Chihuahuas are specially bred for the purpose.
Amazing Fact 6: The average man needs a map to find his way around a woman's body.
Amazing Fact 7: Peasants in Eastern Europe often celebrate the new year by smearing horse manure on themselves and slapping each other with rubber gloves.
Amazing Fact 8: Tom Jones is actually a government experiment to create the first music idol, entirely from turnips and aluminium foil.
Amazing Fact 9: During the mating season, zebras and wildebeest have been known to ritualistically commit suicide in order to attract a mate.
Amazing Fact 10: A badger has a tendency to freeze up and die with fear if it ever gets into a fight with another badger. They both die as a result before they even start fighting.
Amazing Fact 11: A Golden Labrador Retriever contains more venom than a spitting cobra. The only reason they are not dangerous to humans, is because their jaws cannot open wide enough to bite.
Amazing Fact 12: Magician David Copperfield once pulled a couch out of his anus. He then went on to extract a motorbike, 2 helicopters, several woolly mammoths and an entire ocean liner.
Amazing Fact 13: In England, during the middle ages, it was common to see live peasants served up in the salad bowls royal family. This was due to a mad magician called “
erek The Naughty” who was hypnotising people into thinking they were iceberg lettuce.
Amazing Fact 14: During WWII, midgets were often employed to sniff out landmines, due to their amazing sense of smell.
Amazing Fact 15: It is illegal to urinate in Gibraltar if you are under 18.
Amazing Fact 16: Police patrolling the streets of Miami, often mistake watermelons for prostitutes. Watermelons account for 70% of vice related false alarms.
Amazing Fact 17: The Alaskan bear is the only mammal which is 16 metres high, has horns and sings. It has a frontal pouch full of human skulls and can grow a moustache 3 metres long.
Amazing Fact 18: Some takeaways often employ giant flying tadpoles and cats to deliver food to customers
Amazing Fact 19: Armadillos cause leprosy if they look at you for more then 10 seconds.
Amazing Fact 20: Ants are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Amazing Fact 21: It is actually possible for human females to lay eggs if they are fertilised correctly. Science denies this fact in order to promote hospitals and national health services.
Amazing Fact 22: British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, once accidentally trapped himself in a refrigerator for 3 weeks. In order to prevent public panic, the Labour party cabinet ministers ordered a moving cardboard cut-out of him to make public speeches via radio control.
Amazing Fact 23: Microsoft used to produce cricket bats before they moved to recliner chairs.
Amazing Fact 24: The myth of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was originally created during pre-biblical times, as a huge frightening monster with razor sharp teeth and 3 mile wide nostrils. This was to scare children into eating sprouts.
Amazing Fact 25: Employees fired from McDonalds are often forced to dress up as a turkey and eat worms and fried mice before being given the pink slip.
Amazing Fact 26: Mooning a cow in a field is considered a crime in many countries such as the Gambia and Nigeria, and can get you arrested. Some have even done time in prison for it, and some farmers now have legal representatives for their livestock
Amazing Fact 27: Infamous Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was not the real mastermind that the media make him out to be. He actually took his orders from an intelligent horse called “Graham” who he kept locked in his room and fed with strawberries.
Amazing Fact 28: An extremely effective cure for warts is to sing religious hymns to them. Eventually they disappear.
Amazing Fact 29: Farmers in Texas often use shampoo to disguise their chickens from predators such as foxes. Some farmers in the Southern hemisphere even go as far as dressing their chickens up as fierce lions in order to deter hyenas.
Amazing Fact 30: Bad tempered Emperor Penguins wielding cricket bats, have been found as far as Central Africa and have been known to ravage entire villages and consume livestock within seconds.
Amazing Fact 31: In some British towns, stealing someones pencil is a crime. Those who are caught are often punished by being thrown into a metal trashcan and a group of small children are then encouraged to beat the sides of the bin with cricket bats.
Amazing Fact 32: Pixies have been known to occasionally steal copies of adult magazines such as Playboy and Hustler from shop shelves and cause worldwide shortages. Some claim they are extremist feminists in disguise.
Amazing Fact 33: Retino-Mesocricetus is a rare disease which causes the sufferer’s eyeballs to glow bright blue and explode if they accidentally look at hamsters.
Amazing Fact 34: Suckling baby monkeys are sometimes fooled by their tired mothers, who will stick a live squirrel in their mouths to keep them quiet.
Amazing Fact 35: The award for the highest number of casualties on any movie set goes to Disney’s Bambi. Apparently the deer who played Bambi’s mother is a crack addict in real life and, would beat up the other cast members in order to get money out of them.
Amazing Fact 36: 20% of women claim to have secretly given birth to a Lexus and sold it on E-bay without their partners knowing.
Amazing Fact 37: Pubic hair is considered an exotic pizza topping in certain areas of South America.
Amazing Fact 38: Animals, the size of horses have been found living in stables all over the world.
Amazing Fact 39: Horses are no longer allowed in the military because they attract enemy radar.
Amazing Fact 40: In 1999, during the Mango wars of Syria, all clothes made of denim were declared unsafe as they had the tendency to conduct lightning.
Amazing Fact 41: In 1993, the British government passed a law, requiring all bald people to convert their scalps into solar-power units, as part of the country's energy conservation programme.
Amazing Fact 42: All residents in California and Japan are legally required by the government to be trained to turn into amoeba and crawl through tiny gaps in the event of a major earthquake.
Amazing Fact 43: Spiritual mediums from Lithuania can tell a persons fortune by sniffing their chins. Some can even tell your past by analysing the speed of the flow of your urine.
Amazing Fact 44: Peasants and villagers in Nepal, often disguise themselves as giant snowballs in order to get a close up picture of the legendary Yeti and steal some of his hair. A tiny patch of Yeti's fur can fetch a high price due to its narcotic qualities.
Amazing Fact 45: A 28 year old man in Columbia was arrested back in 1998 and charged with “mooning” a police officer while driving on the freeway. He claimed he was sticking his rear end out of the car window to cure a rectal itch.
Amazing Fact 46: Dressing up as Mickey Mouse actually repels mosquitoes in winter. This doesn’t work in summer though.
Amazing Fact 47: Despite what chemistry experts tell you in school, rust is actually caused by microscopic chimps who love to eat iron and spray acidic urine on it from their nipples.
Amazing Fact 48: Before the invention of pigeons and telegraph wires, the citizens of London would often train chimpanzees to run to the recipent and spell out the urgent message using pieces of macaroni. This was not considered economical as they took years to train.
Amazing Fact 49: A single human fingerprint contains more information then the human brain and has been used by scientists to successfully clone racing horses.
Amazing Fact 50: In 1896, TNT (Trinitrotoluene) was used in the manufacture of chocolates and candy before it was discovered to be highly explosive. It was removed from the ingredients when it was noted that children's teeth would spontaneously combust during class.
Amazing Fact 51: Ostriches sometimes give birth to their young through their nostrils if they feel threatened. Scientists claim this erratic behavior has something to with the British monetary system going decmial during the early 1970s.
Amazing Fact 52: A small tribe exists in the jungles of West Africa who dress up as hedgehogs and worship gooseberries as part of their coming of age ceremonies.
Amazing Fact 53: Some species of dog will swallow themselves whole if they cannot find food.
Amazing Fact 54: The Indian Elephant is the only living thing whose eye is smaller then the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
Amazing Fact 55: More people are killed, being impaled by flying cats then bitten by snakes or run over by stampeding ants.
Amazing Fact 56: Before they became extinct, Gargoyles were employed by rich and famous people to remove fleas from dogs using an iron. Some were also employed to entertain small children with sticks.
Amazing Fact 57: During the 1600s, the natives of the Christmas Islands, off the coast of Romania, would often set fire to their young in celebration when they were born.
Amazing Fact 58: It is impossible to tell a lie if you stand on your head.
Amazing Fact 59: Drugs, like heroin and coccaine, are sometimes disguised as lemons and sold on common market stalls. The acidity of the lemon acts as a preservative.
Amazing Fact 60: Pregnancy is actually a disease caused by fleas, and is related to scabies.
Got some weird facts here!
1.Butterflies taste with their feet.
2.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
3.In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
4.On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
5.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
6.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
7.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
8.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
9.The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
10.A snail can sleep for three years.
11.No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
12.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
13.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
14.All polar bears are left handed.
15.In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
16.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
17.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
18."Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
19.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
20.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Medical term for belly button is umbilicus.
Those who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day drink half a cup of tar a year.
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Humans are the only animals capable of drawing a straight line.
On average, an individual grows over 450 miles of hair in a lifetime.
When a person smiles, 17 muscles are engaged.
Human DNA contains 80,000 genes.
Men shorter than 4.2 feet and women shorter than 3.9 feet are considered dwarfs.
White blood cells live in the human body for 2 to 4 days, while red blood cells live up to 3 to 4 months.
Every human bends her finger 25 million times in a lifetime.
Human heart is equal in size to a human fist. Average weight of an adult’s heart is approximately 0.5lbs.
Human body contains four minerals: apatite, aragonite, calcite, and christobalite.
Human brain generates more electric impulses in a day than all telephones of the world combined.
The loss of vision caused by exposure to bright light is called snow blindness.
Total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 4.4lbs.
Human brain produces 100,000 chemical reactions per second.
Babies are born without kneecaps, which form only at the age of 2 to 6.
The area of human lungs’ surface is equal to that of a tennis court.
At birth, a baby’s brain contains 14 billion cells, and this number does not increase till death. On the contrary, after the age of 25 it decreases by 100,000 cells per day. Reading a page of text in a minute kills approximately 70 cells. After the age of 40, the brain degradation is accelerated, and after 50, neurons shrink and brain volume reduces.
The human small intestines are 8.5 feet long during life. After death, when the muscles of the bowel walls relax, it may reach over 19 feet.
An average human has approximately 2 million of perspiratory glands. An average adult person loses 540 calories with a liter of sweat. Men perspire 40% more than women.
The right lung holds more air than the left one.
An adult person makes approximately 23,000 breaths a day.
In a lifetime, the female body produces 7 million egg cells.
The human eye is capable of differentiating 10,000,000 hues.
There are approximately 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The human spine contains 33 to 34 spinal bones.
Women blink twice as often as men.
Now this one is important to all you late night-gamers!Facts about Coffee!!!
Did you know?
Java is actually something that is banned in the Olympic Games because pro athletes can only have less than 12 mcg of caffeine for each milliliter of urine, or else they will be disqualified. Maybe that's why I could never make it as an Olympic athlete... This is actually equivalent to around 5 cups of coffee, so they can have minimal amounts, but they do risk being disqualified if they overdo it. This is also ironic because studies have shown that Java before working out does improve performance, so maybe that's why it is a tested substance.
Where does the name "coffee" actually come from? Originally, people used it to refer to wine because it was made from dark berries that made the drink appear black. As time went on, many religious followers substituted Java for wine in there all night prayer sessions, but the name stuck with it after all this time.
What does the term "AA" even mean? To put it into perspective, beans are actually given certain grades for their size and quality. AA is the best available because it is the largest grade of bean, while other bean varieties are graded as strictly hard, good hard, hard, medium hard, high grown, medium grown, and low grown.
Culturally, grooms in ancient Turkey were required to make a vow to always give their wives Java throughout their marriage, or else they would be divorced. What is a serious matter!
As a Java drinker, your body can actually only absorb the equivalent of four cups at one time, and the rest is dispensed from your body through waste. From that point, about 20% of that caffeine will be pushed through your system per hour. This reinforces the fact that the best way to enjoy your brew is in small amounts throughout the day to keep you going without crashing. Another fun fact is that espresso has only one third of the caffeine of your average cup of Joe!
Asian Java culture is on the rise, and they are now the third largest Java consumer in the world. They are even going a step further by using Java for beauty by bathing in coffee grounds that are fermented to smooth out their skin and reduce the appearance of age instead of your typical mud bath. Very innovative!
The point of the matter is that however you like to enjoy your brew, there is much more to do your Java than meets the eye, and that alone is worth appreciating.
And for now,last but not least;Animal facts..Hope ya'll liked it!
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to land once every couple of years to breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of miles each flight.
Certain Chinese and American alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.
Sea Otters use so much energy that they need to eat as much as one-third of their weight each day.
The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, which can grow up to nine feet tall.
According to hospital figures, dogs bite an average of 1 million Americans a year.
The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
It takes around 10 dump-truck loads of wood to make a proper funeral pyre for a full-size elephant.
The notion that cats and dogs are natural enemies (suggested by the phrase,"fighting like cats and dogs") is overstated, if not simply false. Generally speaking, cats and dogs get along better than cats and cats or dogs and dogs.
The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
There's a "meow" in the middle of "homeowner."
According to a survey by the American Animal Hospital Association, 53 percent of pet owners vacation or travel with their pets.
The Dalmatian breed of dog originates from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia.
Surveys show that 62 percent of dog owners admit that their dog owns a sweater, wintercoat or raincoat.
Cats prefer to eat their food at 86º F, which is why they don't immediately gulp down the half-eaten can of food from the refrigerator.
In 1987, cats overtook dogs as the number one pet in America.
A frightened dog puts it's tail between it's legs because it covers the scent glands in the anal area. Since the anal glands carry personal scents that identify individual dogs, the tail-between the-legs behavior is the canine equivalent of insecure humans hiding their faces.
At least 63% of dog owners admitted to kissing their dogs. Of these, some 45% kissed them on the nose, 19% on the neck, 7% on the back, 5% on the stomach and 2% on the legs. An additional 29% listed the place they kiss their dog as other!
The frog was an ancient Egyptian symbol, later adopted by the conquering Romans. The Frog-headed goddess Hekt was the goddess of birth and fertility, and later also of resurrection.
The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
The biggest ant colony was found on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido: 306 million worker ants and 1 million queens lived in 45,000 interconnected nests over an area of 2.7 square kilometres (1,7 square miles). A worker ant will live for up to 5 years; while a Queen will live up to 25 years.
Newfoundland dogs are strong swimmers due to their webbed feet.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Fleas have changed history. More human deaths have been attributed to fleas than all the wars ever fought. As carriers of the bubonic plague, fleas were responsible for killing one-third of the population of Europe in the 14th century.
The Dalmatian is the only dog that gets gout.
A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
A dog was once the King of Norway for 3 years during the 11th centurey AD. The Norwegian King, angry his subjects once deposed him put Saur on the throne, demanding that he be treated regally.
Rabbits love licorice.
Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.
The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 lbs.
To figure out your "true dog's age" in human terms, count the first full year as 15 years, the second full year as 10 yeas and all the following years as 3 years. In other words, a 5 year old dog would be: 15+10+3+3+3=34 years old.
Great Danes can eat up to 8 1/2 pounds of food a day.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The first dog show was held in England in 1859.
A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 70 mph.
Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet.
More than 5 million puppies are born in the United States each year.
As of 2001, there are around 44 million sheep in New Zealand, a country of around 4 million people.
Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
Cat whiskers are found on the face and on the back of the forelegs as well.
A hippo can run faster than man.
In North America, a black cat crossing your path is thought to bring bad luck. In Great Britain, a black cat crossing your path is thought to bring good luck.
A white cat sleeping outside your home on your wedding day is said to bring lasting happiness.
The Rottweiler makes an excellent family pet. They are especially good with children and a fantastic guard dog.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
Current domestic cats were the result of genetic mutation so that they would be tame at birth.
A Panda's diet is 99% bamboo.
When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge.
Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.
If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.
For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
Polar bears can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.
The leech has 32 brains.
The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
At the end of the Beatles' song 'A Day in the Life,' an ultrasonic whistle, only audible to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
The praying mantis only has one ear.
A purring cat doesn't always mean a contented cat. Cats will also purr if they are in pain.
Dachshunds were bred to fight badgers in their dens.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds.
40% of all cats are ambidextrous. The other 60% are either "right-pawed" or "left-pawed".
The Chihuahua is the oldest breed of dog native to North America.
Many cat lovers believe cats are intuitive. That's because they are right-brain dominant.
Cats spend 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.
Cat's can't taste sweets.
The smallest dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn, England. At two years of age and fully grown he was only 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches long and weighed only 4 ounces.
Not all dogs eyes reflect green in the dark, some reflect orange or red.
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.
Cats rarely meow at each other. Meowing is reserved for "speaking" with humans.
The only dog in the world that cannot bark is the Basenji, an African wolf dog.
The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds and even small monkeys.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
A flea expert is a pullicologist.
A pig is a hog -- hog is a generic name for all swine -- but a hog is not a pig. In the terminology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old.
Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
"Eat like a bird?" Many birds eat twice their weight a day.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
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 realize what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact.
The Honey Badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, as they need gravity to swallow.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.
Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from sunshine.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three Greyhound buses.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
A snail can sleep for three years.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
Male flies only gather at the base of bright lights when they are having a mating assembly.
In 1939, a shower of tiny frogs fell on the English town of Trowbridge. Strong winds had carried them aloft from streams and ponds.
Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
The fruit flys DNA sequence is 180 million bases long, whilst a humans is three billion.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Cows do not have upper front teeth.
A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
Spider web filaments were used in gun sights as the 'cross hairs' until the early 1960's.
No two zebras have the same markings.
Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Killer Whales (Orcas) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
A baby elephant calf can weigh up to 260 pounds when it is born.
Pandas in China have been given Viagra to help them mate.
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid.
Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
The wingspan of the Indonesian fruitbat equals the height of filmstar Sylvester Stallone.
Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
By swallowing water, the Pufferfish becomes too big for other fish to swallow.
According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
The larva of the polyphemus moth consumes 86,000 times its birth weight in its first 56 days.
Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
A bee can see the colours green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of American Footballs.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
An elephant herd can move fifty miles in a day.
The biggest shark species has the smallest teeth. The 12 metre long whale shark has more than 4,000 teeth, each only 3mm long.
As a general rule in the animal kingdom, the more complex or relatively big the eye in relation to the body, then the smaller the rest of the brain.
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.
The female lion is a much more efficient hunter than the male.
Giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands weigh up to 225 kilos and can live for over 150 years.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
An Animal Hospital Association survey revealed that 62 percent of dog owners sign letter or cards from themselves and their dogs.
The hydra - a close relative of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back if it's cut in half.
Coyotes are a close cousin of all pet dogs. The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) meands 'barking dog'.
The Dodo was first discovered in 1507 - 100 years later it was hunted to extinction.
Female fleas consume fifteen times their weight daily.
Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
Americans spend more money on dog food each year then they do on baby food.
The Australian Sea Wasp or Box Jellyfish which is found off the coast of Queensland causes death within 3 minutes if medical aid is not administered.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
There are an estimated five million, trillion, trillion bacteria on Earth.
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
The cat was domesticated over 4,000 years ago. Today's house cats are descended from wildcats in Africa and Europe.
Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
The stuff (allergens) that people are allergic to in cats is a protein in cat saliva. When the cat grooms and the saliva dries it can become airborn. This protein is 1/3 the weight of ordinary housedust, so it can travel farther. You can find this allergen where cats have never been.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body_sporting a magnificent red fin along its 50-foot length_horselike face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
Horseshoe crabs have existed in essentially the same form for the past 135 million years. Their blood provides a valuable test for the toxins that cause septic shock, which previously led to half of all hospital-acquired infections and one-fifth of all hospital deaths.
Cats respond better to women than men. One reason this might be is that women have higher pitched voices than men.
The cat's brain needs so much energy to function that over twenty percent of blood that the heart pumps goes immediately to it.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A group of herring is called a seige. A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.
The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.
Penguins "fly" underwater at up to 25 miles per hour.
The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
According to experts, whale songs rhyme.
Electric light or light from your TV set will make your cat shed her fur.
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Amazing Fact 1: In 1996, US Congress passed a law which clearly states that all school children in Florida must be taught to walk on their eyeballs, in order to avoid alligator attacks.
Amazing Fact 2: Projectile vomiting is considered a mainstream Olympic sport amongst peasants in Eastern Europe. The event is nationally televised and is sponsored by local pharmaceutical companies.
Amazing Fact 3: Due to its unique modifiable structure, the African elephant can squeeze its body through a hole the size of a pea.
Amazing Fact 4: Nasal discharge from Orangutans is often used in the manufacture of smoke alarms.
Amazing Fact 5: During the 1600s, Spanish sailors would often cover themselves in dog poop to ward off sea monsters. This method is still used today by the British Navy and Chihuahuas are specially bred for the purpose.
Amazing Fact 6: The average man needs a map to find his way around a woman's body.
Amazing Fact 7: Peasants in Eastern Europe often celebrate the new year by smearing horse manure on themselves and slapping each other with rubber gloves.
Amazing Fact 8: Tom Jones is actually a government experiment to create the first music idol, entirely from turnips and aluminium foil.
Amazing Fact 9: During the mating season, zebras and wildebeest have been known to ritualistically commit suicide in order to attract a mate.
Amazing Fact 10: A badger has a tendency to freeze up and die with fear if it ever gets into a fight with another badger. They both die as a result before they even start fighting.
Amazing Fact 11: A Golden Labrador Retriever contains more venom than a spitting cobra. The only reason they are not dangerous to humans, is because their jaws cannot open wide enough to bite.
Amazing Fact 12: Magician David Copperfield once pulled a couch out of his anus. He then went on to extract a motorbike, 2 helicopters, several woolly mammoths and an entire ocean liner.
Amazing Fact 13: In England, during the middle ages, it was common to see live peasants served up in the salad bowls royal family. This was due to a mad magician called “
erek The Naughty” who was hypnotising people into thinking they were iceberg lettuce.Amazing Fact 14: During WWII, midgets were often employed to sniff out landmines, due to their amazing sense of smell.
Amazing Fact 15: It is illegal to urinate in Gibraltar if you are under 18.
Amazing Fact 16: Police patrolling the streets of Miami, often mistake watermelons for prostitutes. Watermelons account for 70% of vice related false alarms.
Amazing Fact 17: The Alaskan bear is the only mammal which is 16 metres high, has horns and sings. It has a frontal pouch full of human skulls and can grow a moustache 3 metres long.
Amazing Fact 18: Some takeaways often employ giant flying tadpoles and cats to deliver food to customers
Amazing Fact 19: Armadillos cause leprosy if they look at you for more then 10 seconds.
Amazing Fact 20: Ants are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Amazing Fact 21: It is actually possible for human females to lay eggs if they are fertilised correctly. Science denies this fact in order to promote hospitals and national health services.
Amazing Fact 22: British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, once accidentally trapped himself in a refrigerator for 3 weeks. In order to prevent public panic, the Labour party cabinet ministers ordered a moving cardboard cut-out of him to make public speeches via radio control.
Amazing Fact 23: Microsoft used to produce cricket bats before they moved to recliner chairs.
Amazing Fact 24: The myth of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer was originally created during pre-biblical times, as a huge frightening monster with razor sharp teeth and 3 mile wide nostrils. This was to scare children into eating sprouts.
Amazing Fact 25: Employees fired from McDonalds are often forced to dress up as a turkey and eat worms and fried mice before being given the pink slip.
Amazing Fact 26: Mooning a cow in a field is considered a crime in many countries such as the Gambia and Nigeria, and can get you arrested. Some have even done time in prison for it, and some farmers now have legal representatives for their livestock
Amazing Fact 27: Infamous Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was not the real mastermind that the media make him out to be. He actually took his orders from an intelligent horse called “Graham” who he kept locked in his room and fed with strawberries.
Amazing Fact 28: An extremely effective cure for warts is to sing religious hymns to them. Eventually they disappear.
Amazing Fact 29: Farmers in Texas often use shampoo to disguise their chickens from predators such as foxes. Some farmers in the Southern hemisphere even go as far as dressing their chickens up as fierce lions in order to deter hyenas.
Amazing Fact 30: Bad tempered Emperor Penguins wielding cricket bats, have been found as far as Central Africa and have been known to ravage entire villages and consume livestock within seconds.
Amazing Fact 31: In some British towns, stealing someones pencil is a crime. Those who are caught are often punished by being thrown into a metal trashcan and a group of small children are then encouraged to beat the sides of the bin with cricket bats.
Amazing Fact 32: Pixies have been known to occasionally steal copies of adult magazines such as Playboy and Hustler from shop shelves and cause worldwide shortages. Some claim they are extremist feminists in disguise.
Amazing Fact 33: Retino-Mesocricetus is a rare disease which causes the sufferer’s eyeballs to glow bright blue and explode if they accidentally look at hamsters.
Amazing Fact 34: Suckling baby monkeys are sometimes fooled by their tired mothers, who will stick a live squirrel in their mouths to keep them quiet.
Amazing Fact 35: The award for the highest number of casualties on any movie set goes to Disney’s Bambi. Apparently the deer who played Bambi’s mother is a crack addict in real life and, would beat up the other cast members in order to get money out of them.
Amazing Fact 36: 20% of women claim to have secretly given birth to a Lexus and sold it on E-bay without their partners knowing.
Amazing Fact 37: Pubic hair is considered an exotic pizza topping in certain areas of South America.
Amazing Fact 38: Animals, the size of horses have been found living in stables all over the world.
Amazing Fact 39: Horses are no longer allowed in the military because they attract enemy radar.
Amazing Fact 40: In 1999, during the Mango wars of Syria, all clothes made of denim were declared unsafe as they had the tendency to conduct lightning.
Amazing Fact 41: In 1993, the British government passed a law, requiring all bald people to convert their scalps into solar-power units, as part of the country's energy conservation programme.
Amazing Fact 42: All residents in California and Japan are legally required by the government to be trained to turn into amoeba and crawl through tiny gaps in the event of a major earthquake.
Amazing Fact 43: Spiritual mediums from Lithuania can tell a persons fortune by sniffing their chins. Some can even tell your past by analysing the speed of the flow of your urine.
Amazing Fact 44: Peasants and villagers in Nepal, often disguise themselves as giant snowballs in order to get a close up picture of the legendary Yeti and steal some of his hair. A tiny patch of Yeti's fur can fetch a high price due to its narcotic qualities.
Amazing Fact 45: A 28 year old man in Columbia was arrested back in 1998 and charged with “mooning” a police officer while driving on the freeway. He claimed he was sticking his rear end out of the car window to cure a rectal itch.
Amazing Fact 46: Dressing up as Mickey Mouse actually repels mosquitoes in winter. This doesn’t work in summer though.
Amazing Fact 47: Despite what chemistry experts tell you in school, rust is actually caused by microscopic chimps who love to eat iron and spray acidic urine on it from their nipples.
Amazing Fact 48: Before the invention of pigeons and telegraph wires, the citizens of London would often train chimpanzees to run to the recipent and spell out the urgent message using pieces of macaroni. This was not considered economical as they took years to train.
Amazing Fact 49: A single human fingerprint contains more information then the human brain and has been used by scientists to successfully clone racing horses.
Amazing Fact 50: In 1896, TNT (Trinitrotoluene) was used in the manufacture of chocolates and candy before it was discovered to be highly explosive. It was removed from the ingredients when it was noted that children's teeth would spontaneously combust during class.
Amazing Fact 51: Ostriches sometimes give birth to their young through their nostrils if they feel threatened. Scientists claim this erratic behavior has something to with the British monetary system going decmial during the early 1970s.
Amazing Fact 52: A small tribe exists in the jungles of West Africa who dress up as hedgehogs and worship gooseberries as part of their coming of age ceremonies.
Amazing Fact 53: Some species of dog will swallow themselves whole if they cannot find food.
Amazing Fact 54: The Indian Elephant is the only living thing whose eye is smaller then the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
Amazing Fact 55: More people are killed, being impaled by flying cats then bitten by snakes or run over by stampeding ants.
Amazing Fact 56: Before they became extinct, Gargoyles were employed by rich and famous people to remove fleas from dogs using an iron. Some were also employed to entertain small children with sticks.
Amazing Fact 57: During the 1600s, the natives of the Christmas Islands, off the coast of Romania, would often set fire to their young in celebration when they were born.
Amazing Fact 58: It is impossible to tell a lie if you stand on your head.
Amazing Fact 59: Drugs, like heroin and coccaine, are sometimes disguised as lemons and sold on common market stalls. The acidity of the lemon acts as a preservative.
Amazing Fact 60: Pregnancy is actually a disease caused by fleas, and is related to scabies.
Got some weird facts here!
1.Butterflies taste with their feet.
2.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
3.In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
4.On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
5.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
6.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
7.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
8.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
9.The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
10.A snail can sleep for three years.
11.No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
12.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
13.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
14.All polar bears are left handed.
15.In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
16.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
17.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
18."Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
19.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
20.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Here some facts about you!!!
Medical term for belly button is umbilicus.
Those who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day drink half a cup of tar a year.
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Humans are the only animals capable of drawing a straight line.
On average, an individual grows over 450 miles of hair in a lifetime.
When a person smiles, 17 muscles are engaged.
Human DNA contains 80,000 genes.
Men shorter than 4.2 feet and women shorter than 3.9 feet are considered dwarfs.
White blood cells live in the human body for 2 to 4 days, while red blood cells live up to 3 to 4 months.
Every human bends her finger 25 million times in a lifetime.
Human heart is equal in size to a human fist. Average weight of an adult’s heart is approximately 0.5lbs.
Human body contains four minerals: apatite, aragonite, calcite, and christobalite.
Human brain generates more electric impulses in a day than all telephones of the world combined.
The loss of vision caused by exposure to bright light is called snow blindness.
Total weight of bacteria living in the human body is 4.4lbs.
Human brain produces 100,000 chemical reactions per second.
Babies are born without kneecaps, which form only at the age of 2 to 6.
The area of human lungs’ surface is equal to that of a tennis court.
At birth, a baby’s brain contains 14 billion cells, and this number does not increase till death. On the contrary, after the age of 25 it decreases by 100,000 cells per day. Reading a page of text in a minute kills approximately 70 cells. After the age of 40, the brain degradation is accelerated, and after 50, neurons shrink and brain volume reduces.
The human small intestines are 8.5 feet long during life. After death, when the muscles of the bowel walls relax, it may reach over 19 feet.
An average human has approximately 2 million of perspiratory glands. An average adult person loses 540 calories with a liter of sweat. Men perspire 40% more than women.
The right lung holds more air than the left one.
An adult person makes approximately 23,000 breaths a day.
In a lifetime, the female body produces 7 million egg cells.
The human eye is capable of differentiating 10,000,000 hues.
There are approximately 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The human spine contains 33 to 34 spinal bones.
Women blink twice as often as men.
Now this one is important to all you late night-gamers!Facts about Coffee!!!
Did you know?
Java is actually something that is banned in the Olympic Games because pro athletes can only have less than 12 mcg of caffeine for each milliliter of urine, or else they will be disqualified. Maybe that's why I could never make it as an Olympic athlete... This is actually equivalent to around 5 cups of coffee, so they can have minimal amounts, but they do risk being disqualified if they overdo it. This is also ironic because studies have shown that Java before working out does improve performance, so maybe that's why it is a tested substance.
Where does the name "coffee" actually come from? Originally, people used it to refer to wine because it was made from dark berries that made the drink appear black. As time went on, many religious followers substituted Java for wine in there all night prayer sessions, but the name stuck with it after all this time.
What does the term "AA" even mean? To put it into perspective, beans are actually given certain grades for their size and quality. AA is the best available because it is the largest grade of bean, while other bean varieties are graded as strictly hard, good hard, hard, medium hard, high grown, medium grown, and low grown.
Culturally, grooms in ancient Turkey were required to make a vow to always give their wives Java throughout their marriage, or else they would be divorced. What is a serious matter!
As a Java drinker, your body can actually only absorb the equivalent of four cups at one time, and the rest is dispensed from your body through waste. From that point, about 20% of that caffeine will be pushed through your system per hour. This reinforces the fact that the best way to enjoy your brew is in small amounts throughout the day to keep you going without crashing. Another fun fact is that espresso has only one third of the caffeine of your average cup of Joe!
Asian Java culture is on the rise, and they are now the third largest Java consumer in the world. They are even going a step further by using Java for beauty by bathing in coffee grounds that are fermented to smooth out their skin and reduce the appearance of age instead of your typical mud bath. Very innovative!
The point of the matter is that however you like to enjoy your brew, there is much more to do your Java than meets the eye, and that alone is worth appreciating.
And for now,last but not least;Animal facts..Hope ya'll liked it!
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to land once every couple of years to breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of miles each flight.
Certain Chinese and American alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.
Sea Otters use so much energy that they need to eat as much as one-third of their weight each day.
The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, which can grow up to nine feet tall.
According to hospital figures, dogs bite an average of 1 million Americans a year.
The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
It takes around 10 dump-truck loads of wood to make a proper funeral pyre for a full-size elephant.
The notion that cats and dogs are natural enemies (suggested by the phrase,"fighting like cats and dogs") is overstated, if not simply false. Generally speaking, cats and dogs get along better than cats and cats or dogs and dogs.
The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
There's a "meow" in the middle of "homeowner."
According to a survey by the American Animal Hospital Association, 53 percent of pet owners vacation or travel with their pets.
The Dalmatian breed of dog originates from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia.
Surveys show that 62 percent of dog owners admit that their dog owns a sweater, wintercoat or raincoat.
Cats prefer to eat their food at 86º F, which is why they don't immediately gulp down the half-eaten can of food from the refrigerator.
In 1987, cats overtook dogs as the number one pet in America.
A frightened dog puts it's tail between it's legs because it covers the scent glands in the anal area. Since the anal glands carry personal scents that identify individual dogs, the tail-between the-legs behavior is the canine equivalent of insecure humans hiding their faces.
At least 63% of dog owners admitted to kissing their dogs. Of these, some 45% kissed them on the nose, 19% on the neck, 7% on the back, 5% on the stomach and 2% on the legs. An additional 29% listed the place they kiss their dog as other!
The frog was an ancient Egyptian symbol, later adopted by the conquering Romans. The Frog-headed goddess Hekt was the goddess of birth and fertility, and later also of resurrection.
The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
The biggest ant colony was found on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido: 306 million worker ants and 1 million queens lived in 45,000 interconnected nests over an area of 2.7 square kilometres (1,7 square miles). A worker ant will live for up to 5 years; while a Queen will live up to 25 years.
Newfoundland dogs are strong swimmers due to their webbed feet.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Fleas have changed history. More human deaths have been attributed to fleas than all the wars ever fought. As carriers of the bubonic plague, fleas were responsible for killing one-third of the population of Europe in the 14th century.
The Dalmatian is the only dog that gets gout.
A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
A dog was once the King of Norway for 3 years during the 11th centurey AD. The Norwegian King, angry his subjects once deposed him put Saur on the throne, demanding that he be treated regally.
Rabbits love licorice.
Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.
The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238 lbs.
To figure out your "true dog's age" in human terms, count the first full year as 15 years, the second full year as 10 yeas and all the following years as 3 years. In other words, a 5 year old dog would be: 15+10+3+3+3=34 years old.
Great Danes can eat up to 8 1/2 pounds of food a day.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The first dog show was held in England in 1859.
A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 70 mph.
Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet.
More than 5 million puppies are born in the United States each year.
As of 2001, there are around 44 million sheep in New Zealand, a country of around 4 million people.
Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
Cat whiskers are found on the face and on the back of the forelegs as well.
A hippo can run faster than man.
In North America, a black cat crossing your path is thought to bring bad luck. In Great Britain, a black cat crossing your path is thought to bring good luck.
A white cat sleeping outside your home on your wedding day is said to bring lasting happiness.
The Rottweiler makes an excellent family pet. They are especially good with children and a fantastic guard dog.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
Current domestic cats were the result of genetic mutation so that they would be tame at birth.
A Panda's diet is 99% bamboo.
When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge.
Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.
If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.
For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
Polar bears can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.
The leech has 32 brains.
The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
At the end of the Beatles' song 'A Day in the Life,' an ultrasonic whistle, only audible to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
The praying mantis only has one ear.
A purring cat doesn't always mean a contented cat. Cats will also purr if they are in pain.
Dachshunds were bred to fight badgers in their dens.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds.
40% of all cats are ambidextrous. The other 60% are either "right-pawed" or "left-pawed".
The Chihuahua is the oldest breed of dog native to North America.
Many cat lovers believe cats are intuitive. That's because they are right-brain dominant.
Cats spend 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.
Cat's can't taste sweets.
The smallest dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn, England. At two years of age and fully grown he was only 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches long and weighed only 4 ounces.
Not all dogs eyes reflect green in the dark, some reflect orange or red.
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.
Cats rarely meow at each other. Meowing is reserved for "speaking" with humans.
The only dog in the world that cannot bark is the Basenji, an African wolf dog.
The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds and even small monkeys.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
A flea expert is a pullicologist.
A pig is a hog -- hog is a generic name for all swine -- but a hog is not a pig. In the terminology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old.
Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
"Eat like a bird?" Many birds eat twice their weight a day.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
All swans and all sturgeons in England are property of the Queen. Messing with them is a serious offense.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
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 realize what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact.
The Honey Badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, as they need gravity to swallow.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.
Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from sunshine.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three Greyhound buses.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
A snail can sleep for three years.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
Male flies only gather at the base of bright lights when they are having a mating assembly.
In 1939, a shower of tiny frogs fell on the English town of Trowbridge. Strong winds had carried them aloft from streams and ponds.
Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
The fruit flys DNA sequence is 180 million bases long, whilst a humans is three billion.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Cows do not have upper front teeth.
A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
Spider web filaments were used in gun sights as the 'cross hairs' until the early 1960's.
No two zebras have the same markings.
Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Killer Whales (Orcas) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
A baby elephant calf can weigh up to 260 pounds when it is born.
Pandas in China have been given Viagra to help them mate.
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid.
Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
The wingspan of the Indonesian fruitbat equals the height of filmstar Sylvester Stallone.
Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
By swallowing water, the Pufferfish becomes too big for other fish to swallow.
According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
The larva of the polyphemus moth consumes 86,000 times its birth weight in its first 56 days.
Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
A bee can see the colours green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of American Footballs.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
An elephant herd can move fifty miles in a day.
The biggest shark species has the smallest teeth. The 12 metre long whale shark has more than 4,000 teeth, each only 3mm long.
As a general rule in the animal kingdom, the more complex or relatively big the eye in relation to the body, then the smaller the rest of the brain.
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.
The female lion is a much more efficient hunter than the male.
Giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands weigh up to 225 kilos and can live for over 150 years.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
An Animal Hospital Association survey revealed that 62 percent of dog owners sign letter or cards from themselves and their dogs.
The hydra - a close relative of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back if it's cut in half.
Coyotes are a close cousin of all pet dogs. The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) meands 'barking dog'.
The Dodo was first discovered in 1507 - 100 years later it was hunted to extinction.
Female fleas consume fifteen times their weight daily.
Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
Americans spend more money on dog food each year then they do on baby food.
The Australian Sea Wasp or Box Jellyfish which is found off the coast of Queensland causes death within 3 minutes if medical aid is not administered.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
There are an estimated five million, trillion, trillion bacteria on Earth.
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
The cat was domesticated over 4,000 years ago. Today's house cats are descended from wildcats in Africa and Europe.
Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
The stuff (allergens) that people are allergic to in cats is a protein in cat saliva. When the cat grooms and the saliva dries it can become airborn. This protein is 1/3 the weight of ordinary housedust, so it can travel farther. You can find this allergen where cats have never been.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body_sporting a magnificent red fin along its 50-foot length_horselike face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
Horseshoe crabs have existed in essentially the same form for the past 135 million years. Their blood provides a valuable test for the toxins that cause septic shock, which previously led to half of all hospital-acquired infections and one-fifth of all hospital deaths.
Cats respond better to women than men. One reason this might be is that women have higher pitched voices than men.
The cat's brain needs so much energy to function that over twenty percent of blood that the heart pumps goes immediately to it.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A group of herring is called a seige. A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.
The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.
Penguins "fly" underwater at up to 25 miles per hour.
The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
According to experts, whale songs rhyme.
Electric light or light from your TV set will make your cat shed her fur.
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