10 did you know facts...?

Question

1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it?
2. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
3. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
4. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
5. Ants do not sleep.
6. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
7. The actual speed of light is: 299792458m/s (I memorized that from a Physics text book)
8. The actual speed of sound is: 340.29m/s (memorized that one too).
9. The fastest airplane that is also the one that can go the highest is called The Blackbird. (Discovery Channel, PMK).
10. Putting salt on a burn and leaving it for 10-15 minutes will stop hurting.

Just some "Did you know" stuff for people who didn't know. Pretty cool, huh? =D

Answer 1

Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented.
It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...
and thus the word GOLF entered into
the English language.

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on
prime time TV were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

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Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.

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Men can read smaller print than women can;
women can hear better.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
$6,400
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The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour:
61,000
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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The first novel ever written on a typewriter:
Tom Sawyer.
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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile

National Monuments.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents
a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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If a statue in the park of a person 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 hasall four legs on the ground,
the person died of natural causes.

Answer 2

That's great knew most of them except the chocolate and I am still hungry for some
mlc24_1980's answer was awesome also
I have a few for you
the little plastic things on the shoe laces are called aglettes
The juice that comes from Mustard is called musquirt
The fastest man in history was not in any vehicle even a plane he was also the man to skydive from the highest altitude.
He jumped from a weather ballon from outside the earths atmosphere. 102,800 feet Joseph Kittinger

Answer 3

2. More bones can be found in a normal body. It all depends on the impact delivered by the frying pan over the cranium.

Answer 4

they are good

you missed one

a ducks quack is the only sound that does not echo, and nobody knows why


you are a cute chic (not trying to hit on you i'm happily married) stay safe and do what your dad tells you

Answer 5

that was really cool
i actually didnt know about most of those
i was reaaaalllly disgusted by number 1

Answer 6

Yip knew it all !
Actually some pretty good ones there,nice ah answers !lol

Answer 7

will sleep better knowing that did u know that clove sizes r all the same all over the world

Answer 8

8 insect legs eh? No wonder they're so yummy.

Answer 9

all of them very interesting except the first one is very gross.

the salt one would have come in handy this morning when I burnt my finger really bad.

Answer 10

especially liked the one about ants not sleeping, interesting facts