Anyone know any cool or weirdly interesting facts?

Question

I will start you off- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and
silver!! Now your turn, most weird but interesting fact wins! NO made up stuff!

PS- If you come across a fact you like then please spare me a star for the question!

Answer 1

is this enough?


Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.



v Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush landing on it.



v The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.



v No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.



v Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.



v You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.



v Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.



v The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.



v The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.



v A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.



v American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.



v Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.



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



v The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.



v Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.



v The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.



v Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.



v Marilyn Monroe had six toes.



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



v Walt Disney was afraid of mice.



v Pearls melt in vinegar.



v Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.



v The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.



v It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.



v A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why, this is untrue I read a research paper about this last week



v The reason fire stations 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.



v Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal. The second was William Jefferson Clinton.



v Turtles can breathe through their butts.



v Butterflies taste with their feet.



v In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined



v On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.



v On average people fear spiders more than death.



v Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently-arrived immigrants.



v Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.



v Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.



v Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



v It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.



v The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.



v A snail can sleep for three years.



v No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."



v Our eye's retinas are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.



v The electric chair was invented by a dentist.



v All polar bears are left handed.



v In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.



v An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



v TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.



v "Go”, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.



v If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.



v A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



v The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.



v Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.



v Almost everyone who reads this will try or have tried to lick their elbow

Answer 2

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it

There's some for starters! Have a star too!

Answer 3

Every UEFA Champions Cup final year ending in 7 since 1957 has ended either 2-1 or 3-1 in normal time, and in sequence like this: 1957 (3-1), 1967 (2-1), 1977 (3-1), 1987 (2-1), 1997 (3-1), 2007 (2-1).
Start saving now for 2017, and put all your money on 3-1!
Ha ha, it could happen! Will you remember?

Answer 4

If you were to roll a lung from a human body out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

Terrell Owen’s middle name is Eldorado.

The symbol on the ‘pound’ key (#) is called an octothorpe.

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.

There are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood’s ‘Walk of Fame.”

The word ‘News’ is actually an acronym standing for 4 cardinal compass points-North, East, West, and South.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of human beings, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Answer 5

whoa cool . I had a dream about the after life last night pretty interesting. but for me i walked through a door and i entered into another world . i could still see people here on earth but they were moving slower almost as if they were standing still because where i was time was going alot faster or maybe there wasnt time at all im not sure . a man walked up to me and told me i was not suppose to be here yet and hurried me to go through the door again. more happened but im losing sight of it quickly .

Answer 6

1) I can list one hundred words in a row without hesitation, and none of them will have the letter 'a'. Start with zero, and count up!

2) Gross, but true, the Lewis and Clark expedition survived by buying dogs from different tribes and then eating them.

Answer 7

Tigers can throw up their stomachs, clean them out, then swallow them again.
If you lined up the entire population of China in a line then started walking along the line you will never reach the end because of China's reproduction rate.
We have the same number of bones in our neck as a giraffe - but their bones are obviously longer.
In our lifetime we will swallow 8 spiders in our sleep.
85% of the world's population has black hair.
Pigs can't sweat, they have no sweat glands and instead roll around in mud to cool themselves down.
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' contains all the letters of the alphabet and is technically known as a pangram.
After primary, secondary and tertiary, comes quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary.
Mince pies represent the baby Jesus in his manger.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion back then to shave them off.
The guy who created the Nobel Peace Prize earned his fortune by inventing dynamite.
The spot on top of a letter (for example, i and j) is called a tiddle.
The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionary archives is a lung disease called pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ( I wouldn't want to catch it!)
Porcupines float in water.
Poo contains dead red blood cells, that's why they're mainly brown.
If your ring finger is longer than your index finger then you have been exposed to more testosterone in the womb and are better at maths, whilst if your index finger is longer than your ring finger then you have been exposed to more oestrogen in the womb and are better at english.
If you keep your eyes open when you sneeze then they'll pop out. All the organs in your body stop working when you sneeze. A sneeze travels at over 100 m.p.h.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S than real ones.
By 2010, men will outnumber women in China by 7 million.
When you french kiss someone their spit will stay circulating in your mouth for 3 days.
A stamp contains 1/10th of a calorie. You burn 48 calories an hour whilst sleeping.
We shed 10 billion skin flakes a year and dust is mostly dead skin cells.

Answer 8

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

The average adult uses appx. 57 sheets of toilet paper a day.

Answer 9

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

And more people die by being squashed by vending machines than being ate by sharks!

Answer 10

There are 2 cities in London, City of London & City of Westminster....there are no roads in the City of London, they are all streets or avenues.