2.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
3.The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
4.Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
5.In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas.
6.Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen.
7.In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent.
8.The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year.
9.The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
10.Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
11.On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
12.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
14.Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
15.The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
16.97% of the earth's water is undrinkable.
17.The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
18.All babies are color blind when they are born.
19.Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
20.14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed.
21.There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.
22.Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses.
23.On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat.
24.There are no public toilets in Peru.
25.Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients.
26.The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
27.Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
28.Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize.
29.The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake.
30.The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney".
31.It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
32.The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
33.The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
34.The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
35.There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world.
36.X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
37.The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
38.It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour.
39.Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil.
40.Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
41.Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
42.Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
43.Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time.
44.Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains.
45.Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.
46.The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent.
47.To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
48.Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
49.The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
50.Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'.
It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885.
The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes.
The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.
The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours.
During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat.
In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed.
A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.
No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy.
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.
The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve," which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne.
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, "Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F.
The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil).
Warner Comm. paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
The "Swine flu" vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and... the crossroads.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
Snake venom is ninety percent protein.
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day.
Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer.
Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.
If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles.
If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.
Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call.
more to come Cheesy
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:07:43 AM
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
46. There are more chickens than people in the world.
47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
* The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.
* The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
* The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.
* The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
* The human brain is about 85% water.
* The human eyes can distinguish about 17,000 different colors.
* The human head weighs 7 pounds.
* The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
* The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
* The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.
* The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
* The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
* The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
* The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
* The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
* The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
* The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
* The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
* The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
* The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.
* The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
* The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
* The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
* The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
* The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
* The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
* The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
* The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
* The kilt was invented by a English gentleman who came to Scotland to open a factory because he got tired of his Scottish workers showing up in a long tunic with a belt (they couldn't afford pants). Rather than raise wages so they could afford pants he invented the kilt which is just a lot of fabric and they could afford that. The kilt did not become a symbol of clan pride until the English banned the kilt in Scotland. Then it became part of national pride to wear the newly invented clan plaids.
* The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
* The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village.
* The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
* The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
* The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
* The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
* The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
* The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
* The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
* The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It’s 20’ 2” high and 21’ 8” in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was installed.
* The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
* The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
* The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
* The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
* The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
* The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
* The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
* The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
* The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
* The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.
* The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.
* The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:09:10 AM
Quote from: Sawman3 on Yesterday at 07:08:44 AM
Wow, those are pretty cool, Callegg, ty Cheesy
BTW your sig is hilarious Tongue
ty Cheesy
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:09:53 AM
Some things that makes you feel good
1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. If not for you, someone may not be living.
8. You are special and unique.
9. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.
10. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
11. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world.
12. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you believe in yourself, probably, sooner or later, you will get it.
13. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.
14. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know.
15. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great.
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:10:44 AM
Facts about Bill gates
1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20
Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick
it up b'coz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned
it back.
3. The US National debt is about 5.62 trillion, if
Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in
less then 10 years.
4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left
with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US.
If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e.
US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as
rich as Bill Gates is now.
6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest
country on earth.
7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can
make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you
have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total
of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live
for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to
finish all his money before he can go to heaven.
Last but not the least:
If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their
computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be
bankrupt in 3 years!
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:11:07 AM
Birds, Animals and Trees amaze you!
1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same
time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants
& 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth,
used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as
a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
Cool CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by
tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25
miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:11:27 AM
In a period of a day or 24 hours an average human:
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (Including other liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
Cool Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
The above was posted on: November 24, 2007, 08:11:50 AM
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without
Turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19.John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a
Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of
White paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same
Airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can
For a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women
Who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
Parrots are unable to taste spiciness. You can give them the hottest Habinero pepper (400,000, when compared to the 7,000 of a jolepeno pepper), they will eat it happily. (They actually like hot peppers a lot).
There is a fruit commonly known as the "Miracle Fruit" that when eaten, can temporarily (2 hours) disable a persons ability to taste sourness.
It also gives foods a sweeter, stronger, and more delicious taste as well.
Parrots are actually able to see colors beyond the visible spectrum.
Small parrots live an average lifetime of 20-30 Medium sized parrots live an average lifetime of 40-50 years. Large parrots like Macaws can live an average lifetime of 90 years or more.
The size comparison between a person's pointer and wring finger is determined by the levels of testosterone and estrogen in a person when they were born.
If your ring finger is longer, you had more estrogen, and will more likely be better at languages.
If your index finger is longer, then you had more testosterone, and will most likely be better at math and science.
The most deadly substance to a parrot is avocado. It will lead to an almost instant death.
These are the average bite strengths of a series of animals:
Humans: 80-120 PSI
Dog: 500 PSI
Macaw: 500-700 PSI
Parrots beaks are designed similarly to tin snips. (Scissors that tear apart sheet metal).
Parrots are able to have such amazing bite strengths because unlike other animals, who apply pressure with the lower jaw, parrots are able to exert pressure from the lower beak, and from the upper beak as well. Though the upper beak does not exert as much pressure as the lower beak.
Parrots are actually not as colorful as they seem. Parrots are only able to be a combination of 3 solid colors. Red, Blue, and Green. The way light reflects off their feathers actually makes them seem to have all those other colors as well.
The Hyacinth Macaw's primary food (the Pine nut), is in a shell that requires a large human with a large metal sledgehammer to open. Yet these parrots are able to bite through them with very little effort.
The Hyacinth Macaw is the largest known parrot, being over 3 feet tall. (Including tail).
Macaw tails are so long, because they need to counteract the macaw's large head for ballance while flying.
the eclectus parrot is the only species of bird where the 2 genders are diffrent colors. the male is green and the female is red.
cows deplete the ozone more than cars do.
in georgia it is illegal to pile horse manure higher than 6 feet on any given street corner.
the double yellowhead amazon parrot is as smart as an average 5 year old human child
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. (they dont count the north and south parts of north and south america)
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which tated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
this one is really interesting
In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990’s.
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates
In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names
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.
In New Mexico it is illegal to set off nuclear devices.
In New Jersey, it is illegal to set off fireworks.
Also, it is illegal to pump your own gas (a person working there has to do it for you).
In Hawaii, it is illegal to have billboards (it blocks the beautiful view).
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves to death. (Creepy. I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Warning: Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!")
The flea can jump up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field. (30 minutes....lucky pig.... Can you imagine 30 minute orgasm??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond or the sea?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life.... quality over quantity!)
Butterflies can taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmmm........ won't go there.)
Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people. (Glad to be right handed.)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig???)
I'll add some stuff that I know myself:
-Lions are the only animals, besides human and dolphins, that have sex for fun. (a mistake in the upper text)
-Left handed people tend to have lower IQ, and increased possibility to gayness. ( Really glad to be right-handed)
-Guinness book of world records, holds the recored of being the most stolen book from libraries. LOL
The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks.
40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.
Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike!
Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph.
The average 1 1/4 lb. lobster is 7 to 9 years old.
Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President. (Really? Hmmm...)
Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys!
According to legend, there’s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Redheads only make up 3% of the earth's population.
39% of gamers are female
The oldest person to ever live was a chinese woman who lived to be 129 years old.
The car brand "volvo" means "I'm rolling!" in latin
The loudest burp ever was 160 dB, equivelant to an aircraft taking off!
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg)
The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
In a full grown rye plant, the total length of fine root hairs may reach 6600 miles (10,645 km).
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
A bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F (30,000°C); six times hotter than the Sun
The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million °C).
Fahrenheit (15 million °C).
Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 186,282 miles/sec (299,792 Km/sec).
The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F (-89.6°C) in Antarctica in 1983.
The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
A male angler fish is 40 times smaller than a female angler fish. After she lays the eggs and he fertalizes them, he then proceeds to eat her, from the inside out [giving a whole new meaning to the term].
-Godzilla is the largest movie franchise in the world, with 28 movies.
-The U.S. is the only country to use WWII as a major source of media inspiration
-Was going to put something about the war here, but I don't think its a good idea to discuss politics.
-And a standard piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times: I did it 8 times. I wet it lol!
