anyone have any interesting facts?

Question

any cool, interesting facts about anything! please, no rude comments

Answer 1

did u know that.......

* Money isn't made out of paper; it's made
out of cotton.

* The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.

* Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it would digest itself.

* The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

* The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle."

* A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

* Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.

* 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

* Every person has a unique tongue print.

* 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

* The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

* On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

* During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

* Warren Beatty and Shirley McLain are brother and sister.

* Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

* Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

* Most lipstick contains fish scales.

* Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

* Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

* Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

* Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

* Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

* There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

* The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

* Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10
years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

* A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

* The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was
a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

* If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

* By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).

* 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.

* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

* The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

* Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

* The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

* Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

* Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game.

* Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into
space because passing wind in a space suit damages them

Answer 2

Even though Reykjavik,Iceland is only 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it has never recorded a temperature below 14 degrees fahrenheit.That's because the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic modifies the climate in Iceland. Antarctica is considered a desert! Even though it's brutally cold, it receives little precip. in a year. You can actually snow ski in Hawaii in the winter on top of Mt. Halekalala(spelling?) The world's hottest temp. ever recorded was 136 in LIbya, the second highest was 134 in Death Valley,CA. Both of those occurrerd about 80 years ago. Nina Hartley, a beautiful and famous adult film star, graduated top honors from UC Berkeley in 1984 before her film career. The Atacama Desert in South America is the world's driest place even though it's along the Pacific coast.It averages a few inches of rain every century! Marilyn Vos Savant, with an IQ of 228, is the world's smartest person. Despite his success and wealth, Bill Gates dropped out of college. The highest and lowest points in the continental US are only 80 miles apart-Mt.Whitnety at 14,000 feet and a point in Death Valley at -282 feet below sea level. The word sanction has two opposing meanings when used as a noun and verb.As a noun it means penalty.As a verb it means to approve. There are palm trees growing outside in southwestern British Columbia,Canada near Vancouver and Victoria. The sun is closer to the earth in winter than in summer believe it or not.Why is winter colder? Because the earth's tilt receives less sunlight in the winter. The Bristlecone pine trees in the Sierra Nevadas of CA are the world's oldest organism at 4600 years old. The Maybach 62S is the world's most expensive new car at $426,000 dollars.Even more than a Rolls Royce! Most Icelanders speak 5 or 6 languages fluently. Camarillo,CA, where I grew uo, was nominated by National Geographic in the 60's as having the world's best climate. A lot of people tend to think Hawaii, but Camarillo's weather can't be beat. In 1977, it snowed south of Miami. Bermuda has the world's northernmost coral reef. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from the moon. A couple of weeks ago, it snowed in Baghdad for the first time, a rare tornado struck near Portland,OR and an unheard of Jan. tornado hit near Milwaukee,WI. Las Vegas means the meadows in Spanish. Today it means lost wages-lol! English became the world's international language after England won The Battle of Trafalgar against Spain and FRance for control over trade routes.That's why English is the world language of business. The Koala Bear is not a bear.I think it's a marsupial. The internet was established in 1969, but it was only used by scientists and researchers.The world wide web was founded in 1991 by a Swiss scientist. Cancer is actually considered 100 different diseases and not a single disease.

Answer 3

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

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

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Answer 4

I have a few,
did you know that a girraffs tounge it on average 28 in long.

when a girraff gives birth, the baby falls over 6 feet from the air, and most of the time results in no injury

a pound of bricks and a pound of feathers weigh the same

Answer 5

Only one kind of armadillo ( 3 banded) can roll up intop a ball

Chocolate doesnt give you acne.......... unlesss your allergic or an oddball

laughing burns calories

team doesn't have an "I" but it does have "me"

Foxglove can make you sick

Right handed people averagely live some years more than left handed

People with pets tend to live longer than without

Answer 6

Thomas Edison never graduated from grade school.

Mozart died a pauper, and was buried in a communal grave.

3 or 4 billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are going to collide.

Answer 7

Apparently if you hear a sentence 20 times you'll remember it.
The first flight wasn't in the United States but in Canada a year earlier then the American flight.

Answer 8

Left Handed "facts"
Lefties tend to be at the farther ends of the I.Q. scale-- either
smarter than average or less intelligent than average.
A higher percentage of artists are left handed than right handed.
Lefties have a higher incidence of suicide than righties( see next line).
Lefties also tend to have a higher incidence of mental illness--perhaps from a real or perceived prejudice against them by
'righties'!
Lefties also tend to not live as long(on avareage) as righties --could be due to accidents caused by using right handed tools such as chainsaws,etc. and also due to the mental illness thing.
Fun saying--Since the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, and vice versa, then left handers are the only ones in their 'Right minds'!
(If you hadn't guessed--I'm a lefty!)

Answer 9

^Vegetarians save 200 animals lives a year!
^Love really is the strongest thing on earth!
^there are over (well taken care of though) domestic cats in Disney World to catch rodents!
^226,000 trees are in central park!
^the average ear of corn has 800 kernels!
^Bamboo can grow 24ft in an hour!
^Theodor Roosevelt couldn't see in his left eye!
^ One year Elvis spent 91% of his anuall income to the IRS!
^No One knows were mozart is buried!
^Sry to snd you a link but I don't have time to lst ALL OF THESE! it's http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/

Answer 10

there is no record of pilate ever ordering first borns killed. the man was a brutal tyrant and wouldn't have given a damn about anyone knowing had he thought it was the thing to do.

in scottland it IS a law if someone comes to your house asking to use your bathroom you HAVE to let them.

it's also illegal to steal a cow while your drunk


the legal age of consent in canada was recently raised to 16.

from 14...

in chester, england, you may shoot welsh with a bow and arrow as long as its within city walls after midnight


kissing on triains is illegal in france


in italy a man can be arrested for wearing a skirt.


all taxis in australia MUST have a bale of hay in the trunk


in china it's a crime to go to college if your not smart.
and if someone is drowing you can be arrested for interfering with their fate...

and for the capper..

In the middle east after you have sex with a sheep eating it's flesh afterward is a strict violation of islamic law...

Answer 11

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day