anyone know anything interesting they fancy sharing? interesting facts, thoughts, questions.....
while i just sit and pound the afternoon away at my desk!
2007-01-08 01:06:26 · 23 answers · asked by geminially 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
you sound as bored as i am today lol
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad! (yes really lol)
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Most lipstick contains fish scales! (YUK!)
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
2007-01-08 01:22:13 · answer #1 · answered by ♥gigi♥ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day. Only 7% of the population are lefties. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A human brain weighs about 3lbs. 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet. You blink over 10,000,000 times a year. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... Even your heart. Koala and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints. The scent of apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.
2016-05-23 09:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contrary to what others say, a Duck's quack does echo.
In real terms a musical chistmas card has more computing power than the first manned spacecraft.
There is No M7 motorway in the UK There is an M6 and an M8 etc
2007-01-08 01:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word sh*t in short came from the late 1600 early 1700. It stands for Ship High In Transit. They used to **** manure on ships. When dry it was light and easy to ship. But when you placed it at the hall of a ship it would collect moisture and you would get methane gas and when the crew would check the ship with lanterns and the gas met with the flames you would get an explosion. So that's why they started shipping it up of top. Hence Ship High In Transit (sh*t).
Also if you spell racecar backwards it comes out the same RACECAR
2007-01-08 01:21:28 · answer #4 · answered by cowboybronco01 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When washing up liquid eg: "Fairy", was first put on the shelves in the supermarkets, it didnt say "washing up liquid" on the bottles. Many people thought it was a syrup for ice-cream and hundreds of people became quite sick. "Fairy lemon" was the most common one that was put into desserts. This is 100% fact!
It happened in 1946. Guess people were quite dumb back then!
After that, the "washing up liquid" words are still being clearly printed in the front of the bottles.
2007-01-08 01:30:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The strangest thing that I know is that mankind never believes what other members of mankind have told them. About spirits and demons and other mysterious things that has happen to other members of mankind. But when some of those strange things starts happening to them the first things that come out of their mouths is why did someone not warn me that these strangest things exist and could happen to me............ I witness a woman tell a couple not to drive on a certain day. And this woman for over 20 years have been telling people things that have come true ever single time. Not once or twice but over thousands of time. And they knew that but they still refuse to listen... And after his lady died and he was taken to the hospital to die he said to me a few hours before he died. That why did she not make more of an effort to convince him of the truth of her statements. And I don't give a rats butt as to who believes this or not for that man was my older brother.......... And I was standing right there in our home when she spent almost 2 hours telling him not to drive on that certain date and to just stay home with my sister-in-law................ The stupidly of mankind in every country in this world will never cease to amaze me..........
2007-01-08 09:57:43 · answer #6 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bottle of unopened vinegar will weigh a fraction more in Winter than in Summer.
If you take sleeping tablets you dream less at night.
If there was an ocean big enough to put the planet Saturn in, it would float.
2007-01-08 01:17:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over. find more like this at http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5050302.shtml. also The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
2007-01-08 01:10:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
here are but a few
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
--If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
--The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
--Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
--Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
--The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
--You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
--Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
2007-01-08 22:17:39 · answer #9 · answered by Roxas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
2. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
3. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue
4. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
5. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
2007-01-08 01:16:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋