Post: Some fun Facts u didn't know!!
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07-13-2010, 12:14 PM
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* There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
* The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
* The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
* The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
* A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
* The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone
* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
* There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
* The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
* There are more chickens than people in the world
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
* Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
* The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
* Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
* The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
* The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
* The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
* The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
* Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health
* Brazil is the heliport capital of the world.
* The Japanese prime minister is elected by the legislature, not the people.
* Sympatric means animals found in only one geographical area
* Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
* There is a city called Rome on every continent.
* Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
* The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump
* One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
* Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
* The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
* The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
* Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
* The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.
* Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13th.’
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
* Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
* The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
* On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
* It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
* Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness.
* She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
* A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
* A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
* A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
* A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
* A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
* It takes 17 muscles to smile —- 43 to frown.
* The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
* There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
* The human brain is about 85% water.
* The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
* In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
* The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.
* The feet account for one quarter of all the human body’s bones.
* The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
* More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
* The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
* Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
* Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
* Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
* The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
* Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the USA.
* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter ‘e’.
* Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
* The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
* Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
* The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
* There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
* The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
* ‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a goldfish.
* On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
* Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
* On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten time more than males do while playing sports.
* The 1912, a wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won, but was to tired to participate in the championship match.
* A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet.
* Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
* Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team.
* Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players.
* The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 am. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 pm.
* More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
* The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns.
* The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts.
* The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
* U-Haul is the world’s largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
*The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
* Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song ‘Happy Birthday’. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
* When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
* Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
* On average women can hear better than men.
* The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day.
* The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
* No one knows where Mozart is buried.
* The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
* Michael Keaton’s original name is Michael Douglas.
* Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
* Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.
* Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!
* Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks
* The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
* People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
* The right lung takes in more air than the left.
* All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
* The human brain is insensitive to pain.
* 80% of millionaires drive used cars.
* Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
* Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
* It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
* Oil tycoon, John D Rockefeller, was the world’s first billionaire.
* The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
* During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.
* For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
* A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
* It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
* The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
If China imported just 10% of it’s rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.
* By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
* Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
* India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
* Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France
* The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop.
* The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
* The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
* Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
* At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
* Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.In Kentucky,
* 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
* In Tibet it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone.
* A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.
* The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
* The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
* The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
* Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624
* In the 1930’s, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
* An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
* Nike Air Soles do not actually have ‘air’ in them.
* A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
* Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
* The first cell phone was invented in 1924.
* Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
* The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.
* A rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
* Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning
* There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.
* Drew Carey once worked at a Denny’s.
* 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, in the movie ‘Hercules’, was dubbed.
* Kittens are born both blind and deaf.
* Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade.
* The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world’s oxygen supply.
* The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
* 99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
* More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
* Streets in Japan do not have names.
* X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
* Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
* A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds.
* Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
* An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.
* No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.
* According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the ‘floor’.
* The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ‘To Insure Prompt Service’.
* Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda.
* If you cut a ‘V’ shape into your toe nails, you can prevent ‘in-grown’ toe nails.
* Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.
* A broken clock is always right twice a day.
* Your skin is actually an organ.
* An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet
* The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
* In Colombia, one can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
* By 3,000 BC there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.
* Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.
* The Earth’s atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
* About 1 in 30 people in the US are in jail, on probation, or on parole.
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