Interesting facts?

Question

--The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
--111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
--The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
--"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
--A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
--A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
--Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
--More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
--If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
--Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
--The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
--TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
--A snail can sleep for 3 years.
--Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
--Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
--Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
--The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
--A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
--A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
--In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Answer to whogalt reply...
I AM is the shortest because it usues less letters to for the shortest complete sentence.
And the product IS 1 not O, Multiply that equation on a calculator.....
Every statement on there is FACT :)

Answer 1

To this day people blow on dice. It came from the middle ages. Blowing off evil spirits.
The children's rhyme Ring around the Rosy Is about the black death.
The original Little red riding hood story was told to scare children to prevent them from going into the forest alone. In the original story the wolf ate her. And the wood cutters caught the wolf cut his belly open and got her back.
In pre-history times the majority of tribal rulers were women. They were the ones who had the power to bring forth life.
They say if you sit in a dark room (very dark) with a mirror and you stare into it you will see spirits. There I think these are a few maybe you did not know.
Besides I got that very same email already.

Answer 2

interesting...not so sure about the humans eating spiders. i HIGHLY doubt it. spiders arent even in some houses. i have some facts too:

+----------------- Bizarre Random Fact --------------------+

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben
Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declara-
tion of Independence was written on hemp paper.

On every continent there is a city called Rome.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot
first.

Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than
it does women.

Women make up 49% of the world population.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birth-
place. This is called propinquity.

From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local bar-
ber's duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor oper-
ations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole ori-
ginates from when patients would grip the pole during an
operation.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam
Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

Answer 3

Dragonflies do not have a lifespan of 24 hours.

This is from:
http://ladywildlife.com/animal/emperordragonfly.html

Lifecycle: Most of the dragonfly’s life is spent underwater as larva. It emerges as a winged adult for a few weeks a year to mate and lay eggs. Usually mating takes place in the high branches of a tree along the pond’s bank, but sometimes it will occur in the air. The male pursues the female until he is able to settle on her back. The mating procedure is known as the “copulation wheel.” The female fertilizes the eggs, then uses her ovipostor (a special egg laying organ) to lay them. To protect her eggs from being eaten by fish, she places them into slits that she has cut into stems of pondweed.

The eggs develop in about 3 weeks, depending upon the temperature of the water. The larva, or nymph, that hatches is wingless and lives in the water. It molts (sheds its skin) ten to fifteen times during the 2 years it takes to mature. Almost all of its growth occurs in summer months. In the last stage of development the larva crawls out of the water and dries its skin in the sun. As the skin splits, the adult dragonfly emerges. Once its soft wings have hardened, it can fly. The adult dragonfly lives for only a few brief weeks. The lifecycle of the emperor dragonfly guarantees that its larvae hatch at the same time, allowing a better chance for the adults to breed successfully.

Answer 4

The last digit of the product is wrong: It should be 0, not 1. Also, what's unique about "I am."? Wouldn't "She is." "He didn't." and "Try again." be equally short? And I don't believe the one about the rhino's horn. This list would be cooler if there were reliable sources to back up each fact. I'm skeptical because I've heard a lot of urban legends debunked. But, to add: A rat can go longer without water than a camel. I got that from a book called, 2500 Fascinating Facts. You'd probably like it.
And George, the Ring Around the Rosie isn't about the Black Plague, though I've heard that many times. See this: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm .

Answer 5

Woah, that's crazy! I'm going to eat 8 spiders!?

All of that is pretty intersting ideed.

Answer 6

thats cool

Answer 7

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