Do you know any cool facts?

Question

Like the diet coke and Mentos thing.

Answer 1

glass is a liquid

Answer 2

1. Everest isn't the tallest mountain in the world, it is in fact Mauna Kea in Hawaii (from the sea bed to the top)
2. The guillotine was invented in Halifax, Yorkshire
3. Water actually is very slightly blue, its not just the reflection of the sky
4. The human body doesn't have 5 senses, it's got anywhere between 9 and 21. (sense of balance, pain etc)
5. The great wall of China can't be seen from the moon or space, even the continents are hard to make out.
6. Henry 8th only had 2 legal wives, as he had broke the grounds of his annulments, which meant all later marriages didn't count as he was still techically married
7. A day is rarely exactly 24 hours long, it can be up to a minute longer or shorter
8. Due to a mistake in the peace treaty, the second world war ended in 1989, when West and East germany became 'Germany' as we know it.
9. Rudolf the red nose reindeer has antler, and only femal reindeer would have antlers at Christmas, as males shed their's in early winter
10. The first U.S President was called Peyton Randolf, as the first Continental cogress of 14 men declared themselves all to be presidents one after another, with Randolf being the first. Washington was therefore the fiftteenth president, and Bush being the 58th.
11. There are either 46 states in the USA, or 52. Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are all commonweathls, which means they have nospecial constitutional powers. If everyone regards these as being states, they have to regard the two overseas commonwealths as well: Puerto Rico and the Northern Marina islands are also commonwealths but NOT states.
12.Eskimo's only have, at most, 4 words for snow, not 32.
13.There are more tigers in Texas than in India.
14. Galileo was actually the first person to create the original theory of relativity, not Einstein.
15. America's cleverest man is actually a doorman for a nightclub
16. Ernest Duchesne was the original discoverer of Penicilin, not Alexander Flemming
17. The earth is still technically in an Ice age. Experts still agree that an ice age is defined as a time when there are polar ice caps and, while they are melting, we still do.
18. Bugs Bunny, The easter bunny and Brer rabbit are all hares.
19. It is estimated that anywhere between 2 and 20 wise men visited Jesus, not three. It is not mentioned how many were present.
20. The earliest known copy of the book of revelation states the number of the beast is 616, not 666.
21. The speed of light is only what everyone thinks it is in a vacuum. It is slower in air, and a team at harvard even managed to slow it down to 38 mph when they passed it through Sodium at -272 degrees celcius.
22. The earth has 7 moons, the largest being Luna (the one that we all know just as the moon), and the second largest being Cruithne.
23. The moon doesn't go round the earth and the earth doesn't go round the moon. They both orbit a point roughly 1000 miles below the earth.
24. Seismologists no longer use the richter scale to measure earthquakes. They now use the MMS (Moment Magnitude Scale), which measures the energy given off by earthquakes instead of the size of the vibrations.
25. The fact that chameleon changes colour to match its background is a complete and utter lie. It does change colour, but only with different emotional states like fear or pain. If it's colour matches its surroundings it is purely by coincidence.
26. The most dangerous animal in history is the mosquito, as it has killed an estimated 45 billion people in history (no, really)
27. Carrots were actually purple until 3000 BC. No one knows why.
28. The force of a crocodile bite is roughly the same a truck falling from a cliff, but the force it takes to open its mouth can be stopped with a rubber band.
29. It is illegal for a man in switzerland ages between 20 and 40 not to own a rifle.
30. Kilts, bagbipes, haggis, porridge, whisky amd tartan aren't scottish.
31. The driest place on earth is actually the antarctic: parts of it haven't seen rain for over 2 million years.
32. The longest word ever to appear in the dictionary was Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, 36 letters long. It means 'the fear of long words' and was actually a joke to poke fun of those with the 'condition'.
33. A berry is defined as something with one seed, which means that rasberries, strawberries, blackberries aren't berries, and peaches, plums etc aren't fruit.
34. Anyone who watches Top Gear will think that the fastest car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron is the fastest car in the world. Wrong. It is actually the Barrabus TKR, and reaches 270 mph.

Believe it or not everything above is 100% true, and the list is almost endless. Everything you think you know is wrong.

Answer 3

Ummmmm.

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

-Catholics can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent.

-Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat

-You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36

-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

-Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted

-The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it

-Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

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

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

-The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population


There are more down there......

Answer 4

This is an interesting video to look at:

count the number of times a ball is passed between players wearing a white shirt: I will tell you the answer later.

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

Play it again and do the same with the black team

Answer 5

Take a piece of uncooked spaghetti.
Hold it at each end.
Snap it.
How many pieces are there?
The answer is 3. It is impossible, when holding spaghetti at each end to snap it into 2 pieces - it is always 3 - even if the third piece is very small and flies away.

Answer 6

A human sneeze has the velocity of a hurricane.

It's true and verified. A sneeze can be over 100 mph.

Answer 7

microwaves (heat radiation like sun cancer)can give you cancer

there are three new planets and pluto isn't considered one anymore. (its to small)

coffee shreddings on chocolate ice cream taste good (more like an opinion)

ambulance trucks spell the word ambulance backwards on the car itself so that when you look in your driving mirrors you see the word ambulance.

Red dye can give you cancer

estrogen is made out of horses' pee. (so I ve heard)

a persons foot is the same length as their space between their wrist and the elbow. (try it - it usuaully is true unless you were born disfunctioned and have weird shaped apendages )

Some people are allergic to the sun

antlers or horns of deer and other animals is made from enamel and cartilage

This is the coolest more truest fact ever::::::

JESUS LOVES YOU AND DIED FOR YOUR SINS SO THAT YOU DIDN"T HAVE TO.

Answer 8

Egg Beaters are 99 percent real egg

Answer 9

I know that Ford only produced his cars in black because he found out that black paint dried faster and he need to keep production lines moving and not wasting time so that is why all Ford vintage cars where produced black

Answer 10

Argentina is the number one country who eats red meat.

Answer 11

Just a few.
1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321
2. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
4. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
5. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
6. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
7. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
9. All porcupines float in water.
10. The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
11. 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!)
12. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
13. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
14. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
15. The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 12 oz., measuring 12 1/4" around.
16. Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
17. There are approximately 450 million chickens in the United States.
18. There are more chickens than people in the world.
19. Chickens make sounds with actual meaning. They give different alarm calls when threatened by different predators.
20. A rooster will attack anything that he thinks will harm the hens ( that includes humans ). Their spurs (located at the back of their leg ) can cause a very painful puncture wound.
21. If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.
22. In Gainesville, Georgia - the chicken capital of the world - it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork! [Source: local ordinance]
23. McDonald's in India doesn't serve beef -- only chicken, mutton and fish. [Source: notice displayed in McDonalds Bombay outlet ]
24. The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken.
25. The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
26. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
27. There are more chickens than people in the world.

OK, enough with the chickens, here's other things.

28. The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
29. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight >floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
30. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
31. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
32. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? -- One thousand
33. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?-- All were invented by women.
34. Married men revealed that they change their underwear twice as often as single men.
35. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
36. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
37. Coca-Cola was originally green.
38. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
39. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
40. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
41. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
42. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
43. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
44. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.
45. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
46. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still not over that pig thing!)
47. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (So why does a damn PIG have the half hour orgasm!?!?)
48. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
49. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmm.....)
50. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
51. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
52. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
53. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
54. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
55. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
56. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
57. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of...?) (Did the govt. pay for this research??)
58. Polar bears are left handed.
59. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the 60. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
61. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....")
62. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig...quality over quantity!)
63. Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh, ****)
64. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
65. A cat's urine glows under a black-light.

OK, and I thought I'd include the site, Death By Caffeine. How much would it take to kill you?
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/