Tell me a fun fact that i dont already know?

Question

I write a news letter and like to add a fun interesting fact.

However I write this news letter every week and have run out of fun facts!!

Please help

Answer 1

It is impossible to sneaze with your eyes open

It is impossible to l**k your own elbow

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

In a deck of cards - the King of hearts is the only one without a moustache

Answer 2

well apparently, when your whole body stops growng then starts to shrink your ears will continue to grow

Answer 3

People think that you can only stand an egg up on its end on the spring and fall equinox.  Untrue, you can do it anytime.

The line "Play it again, Sam" is not ANYWHERE in the movie "Casablanca."

People pardoy the old anti-drug ad by saying "This is your brain.  This is your brain on drugs."  Inaccurate - the ad said "This is drugs [shot of frying pan] - this is your brain on drugs [egg frying]."

Love Jack

Answer 4

On canals when the ducks go into a tunnel and quack there is no echo. This is true

Answer 5

Isaac Newton invented the catflap

Answer 6

musatoid means pertaining to bananas.

Answer 7

Cillit Bang doesn't actually go bang!

Answer 8

the time dialation effect.

in space 1 year could equal anything up to 10 years on earth, because it has been proven that time is slower in space.

Answer 9

Here ya go:

Useless and weird facts:

http://www.uselessfacts.info/

http://www.pmbc.com/fact.html

http://www.funs.co.uk/factindex.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfact...

PointlessSites.com

http://www.pointlesssites.com/

Fun Facts for Kids

http://www.faqkids.com/

http://timewithkids.com/funfacts.php

http://www.fundouble.com/fun-facts/index...

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/funf...

Famous Firsts

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=mg2subtopic&...

Answer 10

I have a few:

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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

No word in the English language rhymes with month,

orange, silver, or purple.

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

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

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

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

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

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

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial

on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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

A snail can sleep for three years.

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

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

  Babies are born without kneecaps. They don'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.

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

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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



Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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

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

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

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

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.



Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Answer 11

butterflies have six legs but can't walk

Answer 12

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

Answer 13

your body grows but eyeballs never do, Cannibals exist in space! Certain types of galaxies can suck other galxies They're know as cannibal galaxies, Your eyes work so hard that you would have to walk 80km each day for you legs to get the equivalent amount of exercise, Parrots like to eat hot chilli pepper, Only about a thrid of people can flare their nostrils, Hippotomonstrosesquippedalipophobia is the fear of long words.Slugs have four noses like tenticles, Lobsters have ten legs, Early car had no ignition key, Ducks can't fly when they're moulting, Koalas eat so much Eucalyptus that they like cough sweetes, which also contain Eucalyptus!, Capuchin monkeys are so fond of strong smells they rub themselves wive onions,

Answer 14

The theme tune to Pirates of the Caribbean was first used as incidental music on the film 'Gladiator'