Interesting Facts............?

Question

anyone got any?

did u know when u yawn, u have less oxygen going to your brain!

everydayz a school day

Answer 1

--If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
--The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
--Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
--A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
--The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
--The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
----No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
--A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
--Polar bears are left handed.
--The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
--Butterflies taste with their feet.
--Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)
--A cat's urine glows under a black light.
--An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
--Starfishes haven't got brains.
--The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them.

Answer 2

Newly hatched baby frogs were observed leaving their pool/puddle of water and headed straight for the nearby stream. They were picked up and pointed in the opposite direction, only to turn back around and head for the stream again.

Immediately after birth, Dolphins leave their mother and head straight for the surface, for oxygen.

The term salary is derived from the wages Roman soldiers earned whilst working along the river Nile. It was an expensive commodity. It kept meat and fish etc. from decomposing.

There has never been such a thing as a Sabre-toothed Tiger. (Sabre-toothed Cat).

"Break a leg" is a theatrical term. The legs are levers which operate the scenery/curtains.

A ducks quack does echo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducks (at the bottom of ducks and humans)

Answer 3

1. The four kings in a deck of cards represent four real 'kings' throughout history; King Arthur, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Charlemagne.

2. Humans are the only primates that can swim.

3. Black men can adapt better to a zero-gravity environment than anyone else.

4. Eskimos are the only living common ancestor of all human races.

5. The Muslim Prophet Muhammad believed that God taught Adam the names of all the different kinds of farts (Tabiri I:267).

Answer 4

That citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists recommend 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.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
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.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
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.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
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.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
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.
The average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.
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 Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters found in the word "criminal."
......................>>> The second ? William Jefferson Clinton !

Answer 5

wow!!! stretchy baby....what a lot of "facts" you elicited with your question...how else could we have learned that cows can go upstairs but not down... or that you can't climb a ladder holding suitcases in both hands..human knowledge is a wonderful thing
"There is a river in the ocean [the Gulf Stream]"...Matthew Fontaine Maury
"Every living thing comes from a living thing"....Louis Pasteur
"To be acceptable as scientific knowledge a truth must be a deduction from other truths." Aristotle
"Llamas mate sitting down." (That is probably reason enough to study them.) Gamini Seneviratne
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill." Wilbur Wright
these are totally ad hoc, hope they help.

Answer 6

3 Interesting facts:

1) Contrary to Cho's answer the jaw is the strongest muscle in the body.

2) George Washington DIDN'T cut down his father's cherry tree, and was never officially quoted as saying 'I cannot tell a lie...'

3) The term 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' actually refers to the trays on which cannonballs were stacked on a ship.

Answer 7

A stduy carerid out at Eidnurbgh Unievristy fuond taht eevn if wrods are spleled inocrrctely as lnog as the frist and lsat lteters are the rgiht plcae it is sitll redabale. Tihs is beacuse yuor barin reocgnsies the wrod and srots the lettres out for us

Answer 8

If you have blood in your poo, fresh (red) or digested (brown), you need to see a doctor. Dead blood cells are dismantled and recycled for parts intracellularly. They do not exit the body via poo (otherwise everyone would be anaemic).

The average life span of a red cell is 120 days.

It takes approximately 7 days to produce a new red cell.

Red cells are sequestered in the liver and spleen where they are dismantled by white cells and recycled for parts to make new red cells.

Answer 9

Do you know that...

A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.

Answer 10

You can't lick your elbow. Except for maybe 1 or 2 other people on earth...