| An average ear of corn has 800
kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
an average human drinks about 16,
000 gallons of water in a
lifetime.
an average human scalp has 100,00
hairs.
an average person drinks about
16,000 gallons of wate during his
life time.
an average person laughs about 5
times a day.
an average person uses the bathroom
6 times per day.
an average pig squeals at a range
from 100 to 115 decibels.
an average secretary's left
hand does 56% of the typing.
an eagle can kill a young deer and
fly away with it.
an ear of corn always has an even
number of rows because of the
genetic formula which divides the
cells.
an ear of corn averages 800 kernels
in 16 rows.
an earthquake on dec. 16, 1811 sent
the mississippi river backwards.
an electric eel can produce a shock
of up to 650 volts.
an elephant can smell water 3 miles
away.
an elephant could carry up to 2
gallons of water in its trunk.
an elephant has 4 knees
an elephant may consume 500 pounds
of hay and 60 gallons of water in a
single day.
an elephant's trunk contains
more than 50,000 muscles.
an estee lauder perfume called
"country mist" had
disappointing sales in germany
where the word "mist" was
slang for manure!
an estimated $1 million is lost at
race tracks each year by people who
lose or carelessly throw away
winning tickets.
an etiquette writer of the
1840's advised, "ladies
may wipe their lips on the
tablecloth, but not blow their
noses on it."
an eyelash lives about 5 months.
an iguana can stay under water for
28 minutes.
an individual blood cell takes
about 60 seconds to make a complete
circuit of the body.
an insect exerts so much energy in
one hour of flying that it may lose
as much as a third of its total
body weight.
an octopus has 3 hearts!
an old law in bellingham,
washington made it illegal for a
woman to take more than 3 steps
backwards while dancing.
an ordinance in newcastle, wyoming,
specifically bans couples from
having sex while standing inside a
store's walk-in-meat freezer!
an ostrich egg can make approx.
eleven and a half omelets.
an ostrich's eye is bigger
than its brain.
an ounce of gold can be beaten up
into a sheet covering 9.3 sq.
meters, or drawn into 80.5 kms(50
miles) of wire.
an ounce of gold can be stretched
into a wire 50 miles long.
an owl cannot move it's
eyeballs in its eye sockets.
an oyster can change it's sex
a number of times during its life.
an oyster can change its sex once
every seven days.
anagrams amused the ancient greeks,
romans and hebrews, and were
popular during the middle ages.
ancient chinese artists freely
painted scenes of nakedness and
sex. however, they would absolutely
never depict a bare female foot.
ancient chinese artists would never
paint pictures of women's
feet.
ancient egyptian priests would
pluck every hair from their
bodies.
ancient egyptians believed that
"bast" was the mother of
all cats on earth. they also
believed that cats were sacred
animals.
ancient egyptians shaved off their
eyebrows to mourn the death of
their cats.
andorra, a tiny country on the
border between france and spain,
has the longest average lifespan:
83.49 years.
andrew jackson spent most of his
adult life with a bullet no more
than two inches away from his heart
as a result of a duel he fought
before becoming president.
andrew johnson, was the only
self-educated tailor. he is the
only president to make his own
clothes as well as his
cabinet's.
andy warhol based his 1964 series
of silk portraits of marilyn monroe
on a still photo from the 1952
movie niagra.
andy warhol created the rolling
stone's emblem depicting the
big tongue. it first appeared on
the cover of the 'sticky
fingers' album.
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.
animals that lay eggs don't
have belly buttons.
anne boleyn had three breasts.
anne boleyn, queen elizabeth
i's mother, had six fingers on
one hand.
anne boleyn, the second wife of
henry viii and mother of queen
elizabeth i, had an extra finger on
her left hand.
annually, approximately 46 millions
cokes, five million pounds of
french fries, and seven million
hamburgers are consumed at walt
disney world resort.
another law in helena, montana,
mandates that a woman can't
dance on a table in a saloon or bar
unless she has on at least three
pounds, two ounces of clothing.
another name for your pinky finger
is wanus
antarctica has only one atm
machine.
antarctica is the only continent
without any reptiles or snakes.
antarctica is visited by over
10,000 tourists a year.
anteaters prefer termites to ants.
anthropologists use a standard
height of 4 feet 11 inches to
determine if a group of people are
pygmies. the average adult male
must be less than 59 inches in
height.
ants are social insects and live in
colonies which may have as many as
500,000 individuals.
ants can live completely submerged
underwater for up to 2 days.
ants make up 1/10 of the total
world animal tissue
any free-moving liquid in outer
space will form itself into a
sphere, because of it's
surface tension.
any month that starts on a sunday
will have a friday the 13th in it.
anyone could come to andrew
jackson's public parties at
the white house. at his last one, a
wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs.
was eaten in two hours. the white
house smelled of cheese for weeks.
aphids are born pregnant without
the benefit of sex. aphids can give
birth 10 days after being born
themselves.
apparently 1/3 of people with alarm
clocks hit the 'snooze'
button every morning, and from
25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r
u 1 of them?)
apparently there's a law
stating that if a kurtatchi woman
of the soloman islands
unintentionally reveals her
genitals, it can be expected and
will be understood if any nearby
man sexually assaults her.
apparently, according to playtex,
the best selling bra sizes these
days are 34b and 36b.
apparently, i misspelled
it...it's
"sinterklaas." thanks to
the unnamed person from holland who
corrected me.
apple pie was brought to england
from france sometime around 1066 by
william the conqueror. it made it
to america when the pilgrims
arrived.
apple pits contain cyanide.
apples are more effecient than
caffeine for waking you up in the
morning.
approximate number of facial
expressions dogs can make: 100.
approximately 125 people die in the
united states from an anaphylaxis
to foods each year.
approximately 20% of americans have
a passport.
approximately 200 pets are buried
in a pet cemetery out of the
thousands of pets that die each
day.
approximately 25,000 workers died
during the building of the panama
canal, and approximately 20,000 of
them contracted malaria and yellow
fever.
approximately 40,000 tons of
meteoric dust hits the earth each
year.
approximately 850 peanuts make a 18
oz jar of peanut butter.
approximately one out of four
injuries by athletes involve the
wrist and hand.
arabic numerals are not really
arabic; they were invented in
india.
argentineans eat more meat than any
other nation in the world an
average of 10 ounces per person per
day.
aristedes won the first kentucky
derby in 1875.
armadillos along with humans are
the other creatures that can
contract leprosy.
armadillos can be house broken.
armadillos can have up to four
babies at a time and they are
always all the same sex.
armored knights raised their visors
to identify themselves when they
rode past their king. this custom
has become the modern military
salute.
army doctor d.w. bliss attended to
two presidents after they were shot
by assassins. in 1865 he was one of
the 16 doctors who tried to save
abraham lincoln. in 1881 he
supervised the care of james
garfield.
around 2,000 left-handed people die
annually due to improper use of
equipment designed only for right
handed people.
around 22% of americans are
teenagers.
around the 16th century the yo-yo
was used by philipinos to stun prey
from trees.
arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned
arrows, is used as a thickener in
cooking.
as artists and traders in medieval
cities began to form organizations,
they instituted tough initiation
ceremonies. for example, journeymen
in bergen, norway, were shoved down
a chimney, thrown three times into
the sea, and soundly whipped.
as bananas ripen, the starch in the
fruit turns to sugar. therefore,
the riper the banana the sweeter it
will taste.
as late as 1820, the universe was
thought to be 6,000 years old. it
is now thought to be between 15 and
20 billion years old.
as mentioned, the first fords used
dodge engines. many ford vehicles
now use nissan engines, especially
in mini-vans.
as much as 80% of microwaves from
mobile phones are absorbed by your
head! visit microshield
as of 14.10.2003, only 0.6% of
people actually sign the guestbook.
its true. over 120,000 visitors.
yes, the statistic did go down.
as of 1996, hee haw holds the
record for the longest running
weekly first-run syndicated show in
the history of television. it
spanned over 4 decades, from the
late '60s to the early
'90s, airing every saturday
night at 7:00.
as of 2004, there are two men for
every woman in the united arab
emirates.
as of dec. 31, 2000, the number of
climbers summiting mt. everest
reached 1314, and the number of
deaths on the mountain reached
167.
as specified by the christian
church, the canonical hours are
matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext,
none, vespers, and compline.
aspirin was the first drug offered
as a water-soluble tablet in 1900.
aspirin went on sale as the first
pharmaceutical drug in 1899, after
felix hoffman, a german chemist at
the drug company bayer,
successfully modified salicylic
acid, a compound found in willow
bark to produce aspirin.
assuming that all the offspring
survived,
190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies
could be produced in four months by
the offspring of a single pair of
flies.
astronaut john glenn ate the first
meal in space when he ate pureed
applesauce squeezed from a tube
aboard friendship 7 in 1962.
astronaut l. gordon cooper was so
relaxed on the morning of his
launch into space in may 1963 that
he fell asleep in his space capsule
while waiting for blastoff.
astronaut neil armstrong first
stepped on the moon with his left
foot.
astronauts are not allowed to eat
beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit
damages them.
astronauts become between two and
three inches taller when in space.
astronauts brought back about 800
pounds of lunar rock to earth. most
of it has not been analyzed.
astronauts grow taller in space
at 188 decibels, the whistle of the
blue whale is the loudest sound
produced by any animal.
at 4,145 miles, the nile river is
the longest in the world.
at -40 degrees fahrenheit,a person
loses about 14.4 calories per hour
breathing.
at 840,000 square miles, greenland
is the largest island in the world.
it is three times the size of
texas. by comparison, iceland is
only 39,800 square miles.
at age 47, the rolling stones'
bassist, bill wyman, began a
relationship with 13-year old mandy
smith, with her mother's
blessing. six years later, they
were married, but the marriage only
lasted a year. not long after,
bill's 30-year-old son stephen
married mandy's mother, age
46. that made stephen a stepfather
to his former stepmother. if bill
and mandy had remained married,
stephen would have been his
father's father-in-law and his
own grandpa.
at age seventy, 73% of men are
still potent.
at andrew jackson's funeral in
1845, his pet parrot had to be
removed because it was swearing.
at arkansas state university two
people cannot hold hands while
standing in a doorway unless they
belong to a union.
at birth, a panda is smaller than a
mouse and weighs about four
ounces.
at birth, bear cubs weigh between
1/2 1 pound.
at its center, the sun has a
density of over a hundred times
that of water, and a temperature of
10-20 million degrees celsius.
at jack russell stadium in
clearwater, florida, on june 26,
1985, organist wilbur snapp played
"three blind mice"
following a call by umpire keith
o'connor. the umpire was not
amused, and saw to it that mr.
snapp was ejected from the game.
at one time in india, a fiance was
required to deflower his future
bride if she died before the
wedding. the girl could not be
cremated until this ritual was
carried out in front of the village
priest.
at one time the earth consisted of
one land mass and a huge body of
water. geologists today call the
land pangaea (from the greek words
"all land"), while the
water was called panthalassa (from
the greek words "all
sea"). between 180 and 200
million years ago, pangaea split
into two parts: laurasia, which
consisted of north america, europe
and asia; and gondwanaland, which
consisted of africa, south america,
india, antarctica and australia.
at one time, there was a law in
india that forbade lower-caste
people from casting their shadows
on a member of the brahman (the
upper class).
"To a full month in 1974
# two presidents of the usa..."
Cool!
I have loads about peanuts:
# Other minor peanut producers are Alabama, Florida, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma and Virginia
# An 18oz jar of peanut butter needs 850 peanuts to be made
# The USA produce about 6% of the world's crop of peanuts: by comparison India and China, together, produce about 70%
# About 65% of those peanuts are used worldwide for the production of peanut oil; another 20% is used for the production of candy
# Peanut oil accounts for 8% of the worldwide edible oil production
# The national peanut month is March: it started as the national week in 1941 and was later "promoted" to a full month in 1974
# Two presidents of the USA, Jimmy Carter and Thomas Jefferson, were peanut farmers
etc etc..
(many more in the link, my post would be 3 pages long lol) |