can anyone give me some amazing facts or some sites?

Answer 1

Websites listed below are a great help for facts and research

Answer 2

*1. Coca-Cola was originally green.*

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*2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.*

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

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*4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.*

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*5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.*

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

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*7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!*

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*8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.*

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*9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.*

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*10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a millisecond.*

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*11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.*

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*12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.*

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*13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

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*14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

>Spades - King David*
>Clubs - Alexander the Great,*
>Hearts - Charlemagne*
>Diamonds - Julius Caesar.*
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*15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 (count out the answer)*

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*16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.*

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*17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Answer - All invented by women.*

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*18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?*

*Answer - Honey*

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*19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.*

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*20. A snail can sleep for three years.*

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*21. All polar bears are left handed.*

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

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*23. Butterflies taste with their feet.*

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*24.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.*

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*25.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.*

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*26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.*

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*27. Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.*

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*28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.*

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*29. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.*

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*30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.*

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*31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps o squirt blood

*30 feet.*

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*32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.*

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*33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in myour ear by 700 times.*

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*34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.*

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*35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.*

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*36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.*

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*37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Answer 3

Deepest Dive By A Turtle
In May 1987, it was reported by Dr. Scott Eckert that a leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) fitted with a pressure-sensitive recording device had reached a depth of 1,200 m (3,973 ft) off the Virgin Islands in the West Indies.
Leatherbacks, an endangered species, are the largest of the sea turtles. They are also the best traveled, covering thousands of miles and diving to impressive depths, snacking on jellyfish to keep their energy levels up. Their most distinguishing feature is their great length – up to 8 ft – and their ridged, rubbery shell.

Answer 4

Here's an amazing fact: Pure bred Dalmations don't urinate. That's why they were used as coach dogs and in firehouses. (their pee doesn't smell bad). Instead of urea, they pass water that has crystals of uric acid suspended in the fluid...like reptiles. They're the only mammals that do this.

Answer 5

The amazing fact is that you need to ask this here instead of just Googling (whoops, I mean Yahoo!....ing)

Answer 6

youll get all the facts and more on this site (Im looking for extra points )

Answer 7

DUDE...go to Wikipedia and Guiness Records and just look up stuff...I could spend hours there sometimes.

http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Answer 8

do you know that the one of the wonder of the world the banawe rice teraces is made by the natives called "Ifugao"?

Answer 9

heres a fact, turtles breath through their butt

Answer 10

It is impossible to lick your elbow.



A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.



A shrimp's heart is in its head.




In a study of 200,000 ostriches
over a period of 80 years,
no one reported a single case where
an ostrich buried its head in the sand.



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



A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.



More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.



Horses can't vomit.



The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"
is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.



If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze,
you can rupture a blood vessel
in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force,
they can pop out.



Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million descendants.



Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.


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Update: "Brandon" writes:
THis is NOT true....i Actually work in a Chemist lab and just to test out this theory i had my girl friend with me swabbed her ears tested for bactiria had her listen to headphones for 2 hours swabbed again and there was a 0% increase in Bactirea
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If the government has no knowledge of aliens,
then why does Title 14, Section 1211
of the Code of Federal Regulations,
implemented on July 16, 1969,
make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact
with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?



In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.


A duck's quack doesn't echo,
and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.


Most lipstick contains fish scales.



Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.


Over 75% of people who read this
will try to lick their elbow.


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And You Thought YOU Knew EVERYTHING.


Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

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

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

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

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

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

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

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

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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

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

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

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

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

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being
seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

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

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

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

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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

On average people fear spiders more than death.

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

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

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.


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

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

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Note From: "mia harms"
"unkempt" is one, pre-empt" (verb form) is another
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3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

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

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

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

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

16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. (so did Shakespeare, added by Chaise)

18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. *comment below*

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

28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

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

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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.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
s produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out
to the body to squirt blood 30 feet...

(O.M.G.!)



A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death. (Creepy.)

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

(Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.)


The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!")


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

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



Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm........)


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

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)



Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(OK, so that would be a good thing....)


A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)



An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)




Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)