I Bet You Didn't Know Any Of This.
16 years, 1 month & 16 days ago
7th Oct 2008 17:14 It's faster and easier to walk up a hill backwards, rather than regularly (forwards).
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The liquid inside young coconuts
can be used as a substitute for
Blood plasma.
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No piece of paper can be folded in half
more than seven (7) times.
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Donkeys kill more people annually
than plane crashes.
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You burn more calories sleeping
than you do watching television.
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Oak trees do not produce acorns
until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
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The first product to have a bar code
was Wrigley's gum.
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The King of Hearts is the only king
WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
by eliminating one (1) olive
from each salad served in first-class.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
(Since Venus is normally associated with women,
what does this tell you!
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Apples, not caffeine,
are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from
DEAD SKIN!
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company
died of lung cancer.
So did the first "Marlboro Man."
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Walt Disney was afraid
OF MICE!
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PEARLS MELT
IN VINEGAR!
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The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...
but, not downstairs.
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A duck's quack doesn't echo,
and no one knows why.
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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
be kept at least six (6) feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles
resulting from the flush.
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And the best for last.....
Turtles can breathe through their butts!
Oh, and here are some more I found just recently from http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~me/facts.html!
We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both
cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a
relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period.
Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred
from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly
begun freezing up again.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or
it will digest itself. (WTF?)
The dot over the letter "i" is called a //t//i//t//t//l//e//.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants! (lol)
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before. (Wowza!
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (And who, may I ask, found /this/ out? o3o)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest. And that's pretty sad...
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries. (Haha!
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 (that means, sadly, to have children/a child) and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed Firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all
the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was
lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we
know today as the honeymoon.
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laserprinters all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the Most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
60 % of all statistics are made up.....
If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)
There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
One googol written out is:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000. (Holy crap!
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
A can of SPAM??? is opened every 4 seconds.
The McDonald???s??? at Toronto???s ???SkyDome??? is the only McDonald???s??? location that sells hot dogs.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp. (Pffft.)
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.
Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
There have been fewer people below 2km in sea than have been on the moon.
In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
The shortest war ever recorded lasted only 38 minutes. (Britain vs. Zanzibar in 1896)
In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow
In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep. ( ._. )
The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane
The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
There is a city called Rome in every continent.
Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy
a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck
regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
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