Monday, November 30, 2009

Facts of the World!!


-          A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-          People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-          When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-          It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-          40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-          Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-          The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-          The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-          The average housefly lives for one month
-          The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-          Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-          The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-          The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
-          The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.  
-          Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-          The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-          A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-          There are more chickens than people in the world.   
-          Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-          A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-          An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-          Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-          In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-          A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-          The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-          The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-          The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-          "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
-          What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
-          In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

-          A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

-          Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

-          You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

-          It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

-          Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

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

-          Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

-          The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.

-          One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

-          Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

-          Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

-          The longest recorded flight  of a chicken is 13 seconds.

-          A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

-          A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

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