everybody has a few random, useless facts up their sleeves.... c'mon, what about yours?....
2007-08-16 06:16:20 · 24 answers · asked by cast.no.shadow 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
* a sneeze travels 100 miles per hour
* a crocodile can't stick its tongue out
* elephants can't jump
* you can buy land on Mars and Venus for $19.99 an acre
* some snails can sleep for 3 years
* you're almost a half inch taller in the mrning then the in the evening
* a goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds
2007-08-16 06:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by waddlin' along 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hrm...
1. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
2. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
6. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
7. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
8. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
9. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
10. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Ah ha, that's only 10, I've got many more, lol
2007-08-16 06:24:06 · answer #2 · answered by Crappy Haircut Girl 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
-The Pizza was invented in China,discovered by Magellan then taken to Italy from there...
-The last cow to live at the White House (USA) was named Pauline,
who provided Pres. Taft with fresh milk,from 1909 to 1913..
-The Nations (USA) first Kindergarten one room schoolhouse is in Watertown.Wisconsin,est.1856,;
by German born Margarethe Schurz
2007-08-16 06:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A college football kicker broke his kicking leg celebrating the longest field goal in school history.
2007-08-16 06:23:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did you know the sun rises in a different point each day than yesterday?
2007-08-16 06:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the basic measurment of a step is 14.5 cm, and the space required for a person to pass through is 60 cm
2007-08-16 06:21:28 · answer #6 · answered by k i w i ♥182 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Boogeyman checks his closet for Chuck Norris every night before he goes to bed.
2007-08-16 06:20:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
okay...you know those plastic bags they use at the grocery store. Originally they were marketed to carry the paper bags that had the groceries and not the groceries themselves.
2007-08-16 06:23:44 · answer #8 · answered by Madam Naka 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ok - the tap water you consume has certain impurities in it. over the course of ones lifetime,you will have consumed one 5 gallon bucket of fecal matter.
i heard that on the radio.
gross huh?
2007-08-16 06:20:55 · answer #9 · answered by ♥livingdeadgirl♥ 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
The indentation on your top lip is called a "floom"
2007-08-16 06:22:50 · answer #10 · answered by New Moon Daughter 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋