Post by Blissful_Eternity on Dec 27, 2006 12:00:14 GMT -5
Weird Facts
The average human eats 8 mosquitoes in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words assassination and bump.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect's legs in it.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter in the English language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $US40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
You know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, orange or purple.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cottongrowers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.
Only one in every 2 billion people will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the toungue.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open; when you sneeze, all organs in your body stop working, even your heart.
King Henry VII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, had a third nipple and six fingers on one of her hands.
The average human eats 8 mosquitoes in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words assassination and bump.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect's legs in it.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter in the English language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $US40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
You know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, orange or purple.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cottongrowers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.
Only one in every 2 billion people will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the toungue.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open; when you sneeze, all organs in your body stop working, even your heart.
King Henry VII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, had a third nipple and six fingers on one of her hands.