Interesting Facts?

Question

Best Answer to best new fact!

Here's one: By eating a celery stalk, you burn .8 calories!

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Answer 1

-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

-Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th

-The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words

-Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

-Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves

-You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world

- $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.

-Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”.

-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters

-The word &quot;lethologica&quot; describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Answer 2

More people are killed each year by donkeys than in plane crashes

The sentence &quot;the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog&quot; uses every letter in the alphabet

It would take about 14 and a half million notes of currency to build a stack a mile high

Answer 3

1 hour of gardening burns 350 calories.

Porcupines can&#039;t swim, but they float in water.

In the average human&#039;s lifetime, you swallow 14 spiders.

&quot; &quot; you grow 350 miles of hair.

You lose about 5,000-10,000 hairs per day.

You grow more in the summer.

Bill Gates has enough $ to buy lunch for every person in the U.S.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don&#039;t appear until

the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

If the population of China walked past you in single file,

the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.

No word in the English language rhymes with month or orange.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Shakespeare invented the word &#039;assassination&#039; and &#039;bump&#039;.

&quot;Stewardesses&#039; is the longest word typed with only the left hand,

&quot;lollipop&quot; with your right.

The cruise liner, QE2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.,

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on

a watch face, is 10:00.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels

in order: &quot;abstemious&quot; and &quot;facetious.&quot;

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which

occurs five times, &quot;indivisibility.&quot;

Answer 4

The average person flatulates 14 times a day.

The average life expectancy for a fly is 26 hours.

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



Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Polar bears are left handed

Answer 5

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

(Hardly seems worth it)

2. If you f**t consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that&#039;s more like it)

3. A pig&#039;s o****m lasts for 30 minutes.

4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Still can&#039;t get over that pig thing)

(Don&#039;t try this at home...maybe at work?)

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

(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

(And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn&#039;t seem fair)

6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmmmmm........)

7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

(If you&#039;re ambidextrous do you split the difference?)

8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

(From drinking little bottles of...?)

(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)

9. Polar bears are left handed.

(Who knew....? Who cares? How&#039;d they find out, did they ask them?)

10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)

11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It&#039;s like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes...can you imagine?? And why pigs?)

12. A cockroach will live nine days without it&#039;s head, before it starves to death.

(Creepy)

13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates s*x by ripping the male&#039;s head off.

(Honey, I&#039;m home. What the....)

(Well, at least pigs get a break there...)

14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(In my next life I still want to be a pig ... quality over quantity)

15. Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Oh, Geez) (That&#039;s almost as bad as catfish)

16. An ostrich&#039;s eye is bigger than it&#039;s brain.

(I know some people like that.)

17. Starfish don&#039;t have brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Interesting Facts II

1. Mosquito repellents don&#039;t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito&#039;s sensors so they don&#039;t know you&#039;re there.

2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley&#039;s gum.

9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother&#039;s first flight.

11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

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

16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)

19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn&#039;t like being seen wearing them in public.

20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

21. Pearls melt in vinegar.

22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

25. A duck&#039;s quack doesn&#039;t echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acous...

26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word &#039;criminal.&#039; The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

29. Butterflies taste with their feet.

30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world&#039;s nuclear weapons combined.

31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

34. Elephants are the only animals that can&#039;t jump.

35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

37. It&#039;s physically impossible for you to l**k your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbo... http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbo...

38. 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.

39. A snail can sleep for three years.

40. No word in the English language rhymes with &#039;MONTH.&#039;

41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

44. All polar bears are left handed.

45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

46. An ostrich&#039;s eye is bigger than its brain.

47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

48. &#039;Go&#039;, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie&#039;s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to l**k their elbow.