Cool / random facts?

Question

i like 2 learn new, cool facts. Anybody know weird stuff like that while chewing gum you lose about 20 calories per hour...thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

even twins have different fingerprints

Answer 2

your forearm is the same length as your foot

Answer 3

Okay i have a whole bunch to share with you...

Food Facts

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and

cannot find a mate.

• Scorpions glow under a black (ultraviolet) light.

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

• A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

• A goldfish ready to mate is called a twit.

• Porcupines float in water.

• On average, a hedgehog’s heart beats 300

times a minute during non-hibernation months.

• Only female mosquitos suck blood.

• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 18–inch tongue.

• A mosquito has 4 knife-like tools of serrated teeth.

• Between 100 million & 1 billion birds die each year

from smashing into windows.

• The original name for butterfly was “flutterby.”

• A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is actually

clear, but, like snow, it appears white.

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is

thirteen seconds.

• A group of owls is called a “parliament.”

• A hummingbird beats its wings 8 times per

second.

• Earthworms have five hearts.

• In 1968, a lightning storm in Lapleau, France,

killed all the black sheep in a flock but left the

white sheep unharmed.

• Electric eels can deliver shocks up to 550 volts.

• Slugs have four noses.

• The only bird that can fly

backwards is the hummingbird.

• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

• Female hyenas have more testosterone in their bodies

than most male hyenas during younger years.

• Mallard ducks have 360-degree vision.

• Male kangaroos are called boomers, females are

called flyers

• If a rhinoceros has two horns, it's from India. If

it has one horn, it's from Africa.

• A group of ferrets is called a “business.”

• The pupils of goats & sheeps are horizontal, almost

rectangular, ovals.

• There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as

there are people.

• The longest earthworm measured 22 feet.

• Toy-breed dogs live an average of seven years

longer than large breeds.

• Cats have 30 permenant teeth.

• The longest snake is the Reticulated Python, averaging

20 .6˝.

• A cockroach can live a week without its

head; it dies beacuse it can not drink water.

• An adult male ostrich, the world's largest bird,

can weigh up to 345 pounds.

• Pink elephants can be found in some regions

of India. Because of the red soil, elephants

take on a permanent pink color. They

spray dust over their bodies to protect

themselves from insects.

• A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature

of 62°F in order to be able to hop.

• At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and

weighs about four ounces.

• A beaver can hold its breath for 45 minutes.

• A group of toads is a “knot.”

• A “prickle” is a group of porcupines.

• A male angler fish attaches itself to a female

and never lets go. Their vascular systems unite

and the male becomes entirely dependent on

the female's blood for nutrition.

• Cats have three eyelids

• Penguins can jump almost 6 feet into the air.

• An African ostrich egg weighs almost 30

pounds and is so strong, a 200–pound man can

stand on it and not break it.

• Red wine is kept in tinted bottles because it will

spoil if exposed to light.

• Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

• Pumpkins also come in white, blue and green.

• Half of the world population’s staple

diet is rice.

• The average person eats almost 1,500 lbs.

of food each year.

• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

• Americans spend more on cat food every year than they spend on baby food.

Animal Abstracts

Trivia

*Strawberries contain about 200 seeds each.

*Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

*There are more chickens than people in the world.

*The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly.

*An elephant’s tusks can growup to 10 ft. long.

*Rabbits are apparently immune to thevenom of black widow spiders.

• The average person speaks 125 to 150 words

per minute.

• On average, the heart beats 100,000 times daily.

• More than 50% of the people in the world

have never made or received a telephone call.

• A sneeze travels from your nose/mouth at over

100 mph.

• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the

wrong parents daily.

• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

• On average, 100 people choke to death on

ballpoint pens every year.

On Average

• You’re born with 300 bones, but by adulthood, you only

have 206.

• 13 muscles are used to make a person smile.

• The only part of the human body that has no blood

supply is the cornea, which takes its oxygen directly

from the air.

• Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical

error forced the name to be changed when the

manufacturer registered the name.

• 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan

Robertson published a novel called Futility. The story was

about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April

night. The name of the ship in his novel was The Titan.

• Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the

United States.

• Women wear engagement and wedding rings on the

third finger of the left hand because an ancient belief

held that a delicate nerve runs directly from that finger

to the heart.

• The original purpose of the coffin was to prevent the dearly

departed from coming back and haunting the survivors.

• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are

registered blood donors.

• In 1221, Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at

Nishapur in one hour.

• There are 1,943 names listed in the closing credits of

The Matrix Reloaded.

• The youngest pope was 11 years old.

• In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl

was a traditional proposal of marriage.

Catching it meant she accepted.

• All babies are color-blind when they are born.

• Tycoon Donald Trump has never used an ATM.

• The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called

the Pirates.

• Ancient Egyptians could be put to death for

mistreating a cat, which is a sacred animal to them.

• Fidel Castro once worked as a Hollywood extra.

• The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has

74 letters.

• In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe

to a telephone pole or street lamp.

• The rock group U2 was originally called Feedback.

• 60% of Americans can name all Three Stooges. Just 17%

can name three Supreme Court judges.

• On average, four people a day call Graceland and

ask for Elvis.

• Wonder Woman's bracelets were made of a substance

called “feminum.”

• President James Monroe spent the last 50 years of his

life with a bullet in his shoulder.

• The Three Stooges were originally called Three

Lost Souls.

• Despite what many think, the day after Thanksgiving,

called “Black Friday” isn't the busiest shopping day of

the year: The Friday and Saturday before Christmas are

the two busiest shopping days of the year.

• The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were

made entirely of gold.

• Dr. Seuss’s famous book Green Eggs and Ham was the

result of a bet that he could not write a book using only

50 words.

On Average, (continued) Human Interest

• It takes an average of seven years to grow

a Christmas tree of average retail sale height

(six feet).

• Each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer

than the one before because the Earth is

gradually slowing down.

• Lightning strikes the Earth somewhere more

than 17 million times per day, or about 200

times every second.

• The average human produces a quart of saliva a

day — about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

• About 96% of all American children can

recognize Ronald McDonald.

• The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

• The average person is about a quarter of an

inch taller at night.

• The average bank teller loses about $250

every year.

• There is an average of 61,000 people

airborne over the U.S. at any given moment.

• Only one person in two billion will live to be

116 or older.

• For every older brother a man has, his chances

of being g*y increase by one-third.

• During pregnancy, the uterus expands to 500

times its normal size.

• The average woman uses about 7,000 words a

day. Men use around 2,000.

• It would take 517,578 dollar bills to cover a

football field.

• About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.

• The success rate of A.A. is estimated to be 5%.

• In Nevada, there are more than 209,000 slot

machines normally operating 24 hours a day,

seven days a week.

• The Eiffel Tower weighs approximately 9,441 tons.

• The average water temperature of showers in

the U.S. is 105°F.

• One out of four children in the U.S. is overweight.

• The base salary for a NASA astronaut is

$50,000 per year.

• The average human eye can distinguish about

500 different shades of gray.

• “E” is the most frequently used letter in the

English alphabet; “Q,” the least.

• A baseball has exactly 108 stitches

• There are 40,000 traffic intersections in Los Angeles.

• An Oscar (Academy Award Statuette) weighs

seven pounds.

• The typical person goes to the bathroom six

times a day.

• The average yawn lasts six seconds.

• One million dollars in pennies (100 million

coins) weighs 246 tons.

• Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year

when it comes to candy sales—estimated at

$1.93 billion. (One quarter of all the candy sold

each year is purchased between September 15

and November 10.)

• 90% of women who walk into a department

store immediately turn to the right. No one

knows why.

• The average person walks 100,000 miles by

the time he/she  

Answer 4

if you cut off your index finger it will grow back in 10 minutes. go ahead try it out

Answer 5

Actually, a man DID regenerate his finger.  It's documented online via the BBC News.  Here's the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/737974...

Crazy, huh?

Some Other Random Trivia:

*   You have enough blood vessels to circle the Equator about two and a half times.

*   Water makes up 60% of our body weight. Of the water, 8% is in the blood, 25% in the spaces between cells, and 67% inside the cells.

*   The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest.

*   Researchers claim that the color light green is effective in relieving the feelings of homesickness.

*   The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.

*   If your growth was typical in your first seven years of childhood, your doubled your weight three times.

*   A simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels to such an extent that it takes four to fifteen months for them to return to their normal condition.

Answer 6

the three 3's of survival are:

You can go

3 seconds without air

3 days without water

3 weeks with out food

Answer 7

1) New York City has 11 letters

2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.

3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin

Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.

4) George W Bush has 11 letters.

This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:

1) New York is the 11th state.

2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number

11.

3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11

4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers.

6+5 = 11

5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 =

11

6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number

911. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.

Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind:

1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was

254. 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.

2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 + 5 + 4

= 11.

3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.

4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers

incident.

Now this is where things get totally eerie:

The most recognised symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is

the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Quran, the Islamic

holy book:

"For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle.

The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo,

while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for

the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was

peace."

That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.

Still uncovinced about all of this..?! Try this and see how you feel

afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:

Open Microsoft Word and do the following:

1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first

plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.

2. Highlight the Q33 NY.

3. Change the font size to 48.

4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS

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1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6. There are more chickens than people in the world.

7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

32. Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand

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-Women blink twice as many times as men do.

-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

-We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.

-There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

-The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

-The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

-The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

-Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.

-Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

-The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

-If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

-The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

-A baby is born every seven seconds.

-You can tell if a skunk is about to spray you if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.

-You breathe about 10 million times a year.

-The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

-The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

-The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.

-The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

-The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

-The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

-The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.

-After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

-A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.

-Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.

-There are more people alive today than have ever died.

-The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.

-A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.

-A beard grows an average of 140mm a year

-A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes

-Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair

-During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble

-4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.

-4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung

-4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions

-The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have s*x for pleasure

-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

-It is impossible to l**k your elbow.[About 75% of ppl who read this try it]

-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky

-If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

-A ducks quack doesnt echo,and nobody knows why

-The "sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick" is said to be the toughest tounge twister in the english language

-If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib

-and if you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die

-and if you if you keep your eyes open by force while sneezing, they can pop out

-Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million people in the world

-The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

-The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon...

-"a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backward is still "a man a plan a canal panama"

-The lightbulb was actually invented by Micheal Corner. Thomas Edison just made it last longer

-it would take 31.7 years to count off 1 billion seconds

- a polar bear's fur is not actually white, it's actually lots and lots of long clear hollow tubes.

- about 57.896% of polyester carpeting is made of recycled plastic

-70% of the earth is water. Water holds about 97% of life and is 95% unexplored

-Flamingos get their bright pink color from the shrimp they eat. they are born white.

- Polar bears have black skin

- The US population increases by 1 every 11 seconds

- There are exactly 216 noodles in every can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup

- Chickens are the only animals without nasal passages

- If a pineapple is ripe, it will float, if not, it will sink

- An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

- An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

- More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.

-The first NIKE shoe was made using a waffle iron!!!

-The average Frenchman consumes 18 pounds of crossiants each year

- indonesia produces over 80% of all cultivated pepper.

-black pepper is the berry of a climbing plant called piper nigrum.

- Your skin wieghs about 20 lbs.

- for every 7 seconds of real laughter, 1 day is added to your life.

- Your brain is the size of your fists

- When An elephant is born, it's brain is not fully developed. It takes 12 more years to become fully developed.

- The largest dog litter was one of 24 pups.

- It takes a dog 63

Answer 8

bats live something like 5 times longer then a mamel of there size

Answer 9

If you do it properly, you will use more calories eating celery than what you get from it

There were 8 battleships in US history called Hornet, but there will be no more with that designation

Answer 10

Someone at work told me:

1. A pig's o****m lasts for 30 minutes.

2. Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

3. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Answer 11

leaves on trees turn upside down when its gonna storm