Interesting Facts
Facts of life, you could call them
These are completely odd, yet completely true.....I think...
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
As you sleep, over the course of your lifetime you will eat 8 spiders (average)
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
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 continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. (They are called PALINDROMES - just like: wow, radar, madam, mom and noon.)
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
No president of the United States was an only child.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee.
If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Banging your head against a walls uses 150 calories an hour.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupoka-whenuakitanatahu -- a New Zealand hill.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
