2007-12-30 01:31:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Gorillas can't swim.
2007-12-30 12:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charlie Chaplin once won 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike contest
Armadillos can be house-broken
Squirrels cannot actually contract the rabies disease.
1 out of 4 Americans do not know their astrological sign.
Every day, 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents. However, 200 babies are born every minute worldwide, so it is a tiny percentage.
A jiffy is actually a unit of time. It's 1/100 of a second.
Oops. 97% of all statistics are made up or use false information. And if that's true, does it include this one?
2007-12-30 13:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by turquoise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of French fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.
The Eiffel Tower is painted approximately once every 7 years and requires nearly 50 tons of paint each time.
The Empire State Building in New York City weighs approximately 365,000 tons.
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
2007-12-30 01:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I know where the phrase "THE WHOLE NINE YARDS" originated from.
During the first world war the automatic machine guns were belt driven - that is the bullets were srung on a belt and fed into the gun. The length of these belts were 9 yerds - so to give someone the whole nine yards is to give them a full belt of bullets. - am I sad or what?
by the way that bit above about a ducks quack isnt true - its an urban legend - www.snopes.com
2007-12-30 01:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by The Ghost 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the forth road brifge takes around 3 years to repaint each time and once they have finsihed they have to start again at the other side to stop rust.
the most capped player for scotland is kenny dalglish with 102 caps.
the most expensive footballer transfer fee in the world is 46 million pounds for zidane between real madrid and juventus.
2007-12-30 01:45:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I have quite a few. If I let them be known to you, you can produce them in dozens, scores and hundreds. For example, they are
1. If you do not eat, you would be hungry
2. If you do not drink water, you would be thirsty
3. If you do not breath properly, it indicates that you have a respiratory problem
4. If you do not spend your money, you would not know what to do with your money
5. If you do not know what love is all about, you would find life miserable.
2007-12-30 02:36:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 pin bowling started in the USA, because workers used to go to the pub at lunch time, start playing skittles (with 9 pins) and forget to go back to work. So 9 pin bowling was made illegal.
2007-12-30 04:35:11 · answer #7 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The three musical notes played at the beginning of NBC programs are G, E & C and it stands for General Electric Company which was the very first sponsor on NBC Radio when it first went on the air.
2016-05-28 01:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by rochelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first product to have a barcode scanning was wrigleys gum.............earth is the only planet not named after a pagan god...... earth worms have 5 hearts................If an Amish man has a beard, he is married...............Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning..............The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.............The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.......Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection........Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children..............Walt Disney was afraid of mice. ...............The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas........Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
2007-12-30 01:38:27 · answer #9 · answered by ejnea 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar
2007-12-30 01:40:46 · answer #10 · answered by planet 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If there was no space between its atoms, the Earth would be about the size of a baseball.
2007-12-30 01:34:14 · answer #11 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋