give me the most random fact you know. The one I like the best will be given 10 pts.
here's one to start you off.
Did you know that elephants are the only land Mammals that CANNOT jump?
2007-07-23 11:21:12 · 37 answers · asked by Miss Meg 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Did u see any of my facts of the day?
Here's all of them:
A day is actually 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds long.
A butterfly can smell with its legs and hear with its wings.
4 million new items are added to eBay every single day.
The most expensive item sold on eBay is a private business jet for $4.9 million.
Almonds are part of the peach family.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The only planet without a ring is Earth.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person can eat his or her own body weight in a half a year.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. (But I haven’t found it)
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
"I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.
There is a city called Rome in every continent.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery provides you with.
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Periwinkle Blue.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
The best beaches for surfing face west.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Our eyes never grow, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Number of lottery combinations (6 numbers from 49): 13,983,816 The first million decimal places of pi!
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You blink about 25,000 times a day.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The average person spends 1 - 2 months during a lifetime looking aimlessly into the fridge for something to eat.
If a man watches a woman undress in front of a window, he can be arrested as a peeping tom, if a woman watches a man undress in front of a window, she can have him arrested for indecent exposure.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
AND A NEW ONE:
ginormous is an actual word in the dictionary now
AND
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." has all the letters in the alphabet in it
2007-07-23 11:24:44 · answer #1 · answered by xoxox 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
and one more
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
2007-07-23 11:24:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that Billy Mills is the only American ever to win the Olympic 10,000 meter run (event was introduced to the Olympics in 1912, and is still contested present day) 1964 Tokyo Games. Also, in those same Tokyo games, Bob Schul is the only American ever to win the Olympic 5,000 meter run. Also "Crappy Day" is incorrect. The giraffe will have sex with any other giraffe, if one of the opposite sex is not available.
2007-07-23 11:28:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elephants are the only animal with 4 knees.
2007-07-23 11:24:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dude means white hair on an elephants but
2007-07-23 11:23:13 · answer #5 · answered by lauraboo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marilyne Monroes birth name was Norma Jean Mortensen
2007-07-23 11:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you know German war profiteer and prison camp director Oskar Schindler saved more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during WW2
2007-07-23 13:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by jlassw101 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i heard that one before from this book, i can't remember any of them i read but remember that
if a person was to stand on the top of an eiffel tower and dropped a penny, the person it hits could die instantly because of the speed it is travelling at.
it's fun knowing random facts
2007-07-23 11:25:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
2007-07-23 11:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by TexAss 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
2007-07-23 11:31:34 · answer #10 · answered by mbucket 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋