| (1) some worms will eat themselves
if they can't find any food
(2) butterflies taste with their
feet.
(3) a duck's quack
doesn't echo, and no one knows
why.
(4) in 10 minutes, a hurricane
releases more energy than all the
world's nuclear weapons
combined.
(5) on average, 100 people choke to
death on ballpoint pens every year.
(6) on average people fear spiders
more than they do death.
(7) ninety percent of new york city
cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.
(8) thirty-five percent of the
people who use personal ads for
dating are already married
(9) elephants are the only animals
that can't jump.
(10) only one person in two billion
will live to be 116 or older.
(11) it's possible to lead a
cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
(12) women blink nearly twice as
much as men.
(13) 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.
(14) a snail can sleep for three
years
(15) no word in the english
language rhymes with
"month".
(16) average life span of a major
league baseball: 7 pitches.
(17) our eyes are always the same
size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.
(18) the electric chair was
invented by a dentist.
(19) all polar bears are left
handed.
(20) in ancient egypt, priests
plucked every hair from their
bodies, including their eyebrows
and eyelashes
(21) an ostrich's eye is
bigger than its brain.
(22) typewriter is the longest word
that can be made using the letters
in the same row of the keyboard.
(try it).
(23) a crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
(24) "go." is the
shortest complete sentence in the
english language.
(25) if barbie were life-size, her
measurements would be 39-23-33. she
would stand seven feet, two inches
tall.
(26) the cigarette lighter was
invented before the match.
(27) americans on average eat 18
acres of pizza every day.
(28) scientists say the higher your
i.q. the more you dream.
(29) the brain is much more active
at night than during the day.
(30) the human brain cell can hold
5 times as much information as the
encyclopedia britannica
(32) the brain operates on the same
amount of power as 10-watt light
bulb.
(33) nerve impulses to and from the
brain travel as fast as 170 miles
per hour.
(34) 80% of the brain is water.
(35) if the average man never
shaved his beard it would grow to
over 30 feet during his lifetime,
longer than a killer whale.
(36) the golden gate bridge was
first opened in 1937.
(37)the great wall stretches for
about 4,500 miles across north
china.
(38) amish people do not believe in
the use of aerosol air fresheners
(39) annually 17 tons of gold is
used to make wedding rings in the
united states
(40) if you hold your breath, you
will not die. you will faint and
start breathing again.
(41) a giraffe can clean its ears
with its 21-inch tongue.
(42) the average person laughs 10
times a day.
(43) sloths take two weeks to
digest their food.
(44) there are more than fifty
different kinds of kangaroos.
(45) guinea pigs and rabbits
can't sweat.
(46) a man named charles osborne
had the hiccups for 69 years.
(47) owls are the only birds who
can see the color blue.
(48) slugs have 4 noses.
(49) the worlds oldest piece of
chewing gum is 9000 years old.
(50) it is impossible to sneeze
with your eyes open.
(51) dolphins sleep with one eye
open.
(52) most dust particles in your
house are made from dead skin.
(53) like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is
different.
(54) one quarter of the bones in
your body, are in your feet.
(55) you're born with 300
bones, but by the time you become
an adult, you only have 206.
(56) earth is the only planet not
named after a god.
(57) more people use blue
toothbrushes then red ones.
(58) human thigh bones are stronger
than concrete.
(59) your statistical chance of
being murdered is one in twenty
thousand.
(60) in las vegas, casinos do not
have any clocks.
(61) the total number of steps in
the eiffel tower are 1665
(62) fires on land generally move
faster uphill than downhill .
(63) if someone was to fly once
around the surface of the moon, it
would be equal to a round trip from
new york to london.
(64) in 1958, the crayola crayon
color "prussian blue" was
changed to "midnight
blue" by the request of
teachers as kids could not relate
to prussian history.
(65) in china, september 20 is
"love your teeth day."
(66) in japan, the number four is
considered to be unlucky because
the japanese word for four sounds
very similar to the word death.
(67) in new york city,
approximately 1,600 people are
bitten by other humans annually.
(68) india has the most post
offices in the world.
(69) one billion seconds is about
32 years.
(70) one gallon of used motor oil
can ruin approximately one million
gallons of fresh water.
(71) studies show that divorced
women have more trouble starting
new relationships than divorced
(71) studies show that divorced
women have more trouble starting
new relationships than divorced
men.
(72) the mexican version of the
tooth fairy is known as the tooth
mouse, which takes the tooth and
leaves treasures in its place.
(73) the average america online
user spends 70 minutes day online.
(74) the average day is actually 23
hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds.
we ave a leap year every four years
to make up for this shortfall.
(75) the average four year-old
child asks over four hundred
questions a day.
(76) the first halloween card was
created in the 1920's.
(77) the largest diamond found in
the united states was a 40.23 carat
white diamond.
(78) the longest engagement lasted
67 years, and the couple ended up
marrying when they were 82 years
old.
(79) if you do not move in quick
sand you will float.
(80) the most popular name for a
pet in the united states is max.
(81) the world's oldest rose
is located hildeshiem cathedral in
germany and is thought to be over
1,000 years old.
(82) there are over 1,000,000
swimming pools in florida,
eventhough the ocean is no farther
than 80 miles away.
(83) there is a large brass statue
of winnie-the-pooh in lima, peru.
(84) the average person falls
asleep in 7 minutes.
(85) the name wendy was made up for
the book "peter pan."
(86) your stomach has to produce a
new layer of mucus every 2 weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
(87) reindeer like to eat bananas.
(88) the electric chair was
invented by a dentist.
(89) more people are killed
annually by donkeys than airplane
crashes.
(90) in the united states, a pound
of potato chips costs two hundred
times more than a pound of
potatoes.
(91) a giraffe can go without water
longer than a camel.
(92) there is a type of coffin made
that can be used as a wine rack or
picnic table before its final use
(93) 1 out of every 4 kids in the
usa is overweight.
(94) your hair will continue
growing after you die until all the
cells in your body die
(95) a fetus develops fingerprints
at eighteen weeks.
(96) a fetus that is four months
old, will becomes startled and turn
away if a light is flashed on the
mother's stomach.
(97) a human head remains conscious
for about 15 to 20 seconds after it
is been decapitated.
(98) studies show that couples that
smoke during the time of conception
have a higher chance of having a
girl compared to couples that do
not smoke.
(99) the first known contraceptive
was crocodile dung, used by
egyptians in 2000 b.c
(100) a pregnant woman's
dental health can affect her unborn
child.
please tell me what you think of my
list and if you learned anything
new.
-kenzie (:
whoa.. that's nice/ a lot of info... and yes, i noticed the elctric chair thing too XD... i hate spiders, and i will rather kill myself than live among them... no joke... yuk... no ofense for spider lovers... peace/
i asked a friend who's from Lima, Peru and he said he never saw a winnie the pooh brass statue... hehehe.. i think he didn't know it was one |
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