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Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order.
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe", meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
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1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel use a cell phone. |
1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
11% of the world is left-handed.
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
1200 equals 1 pound (72 rupees).
123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
1959's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
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27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon. |
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
3% of all mammals are monogamous
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot
48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
52% of Americans drink coffee.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year
67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in the US.
78 rpm albums, used prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for four minutes. It wasn’t until later that year that Columbia Records introduced 33 rpm albums capable of playing 23 minutes per side.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
One in ten people live on an island.
84% of a raw apple is water.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
A 10-gallon hat actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electrical shock.
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
A bat is the only mammal that flies.
A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.
A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.
A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
A cheetah is the fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.
A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A cucumber is 96% water.
A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which a human ear cannot.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
A Fag is to work hard or to tire by strenuous activity and cigarettes are sometimes called Fags
A fagot is a bundle of sticks or a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature.
A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.
A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat.
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph
A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.
A foal is a baby horse.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.
A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)
A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
A group od geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.
A group of crows is called a murder.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.
A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.
A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.
A hinny is the offspring of a female donkey.
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. |
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
A horse can sleep standing up.
A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell
A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles awday.
A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.
A mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.
A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.
A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base -by any means.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.
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A person uses approximently fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day. |
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.
A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.
A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pineapple is a berry.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.
A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.
A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A scrum in rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing the forward position on both teams.
A SEAL's weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
A speleologist studies caves.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
A spremologer collects trivia.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A ton of potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are an important source for commercial alcohol.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A traditional dish from Savolax, called "kalakukko" (fishcock in engl.) is made of white fish and porkfat encased in a baked crust of rye.
A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.
A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags
A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.
A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.
A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
A women's heart beats faster than men.
A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Absinthe is another name for the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and the name of a licorice-anise flavored green liqueur that was created at the end of the 18th century, and manufactured by Henry-Louis Pernod. Called the 'green Muse' it became very popular in the 19th century, but was eventually banned in most countries beginning in 1908. The reason is the presence of the toxic oil 'thujone' in wormwood, which was one of the main ingredients of Absinthe. Absinthe seemed to cause brain lesions, convulsions, hallucinations and severe mental problems. Thujone was the culprit, along with the fact that Absinthe was manufactured with an alcohol content of 68% or 132 proof.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
According to bar sales across the U.S., here are the top 15 cocktails: 1) Dry martini, 2) Manhattan, 3) Whiskey sour, 4) Bloody Mary, 5) Gimlet, 6) Daiquiri, 7) Tom Collins, 8) Old Fashioned, 9) Margarita, 10) Screwdriver, 11) Bacardi, 12) Stinger, 13) Harvey Wallbanger, 14) Gin & Tonic, and 15) Rum & Coke
According to Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard 5km (3.3 miles for u Americans) away.
According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.
According to Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wakea to give birth to the Hawaiian Islands.
According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."
According to L. Frank Baum, the name Oz was thought up when he looked at his filing cabinet and noticed one drawer marked A-G, a second tagged H-N, and a third labeled O-Z.
According to legend, when Burmese women are making beer, they need to avoid having sex or the beer will be bitter.
According to National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalyan peaks to grow slightly each year
According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.
According to Scandinavian folklore, trolls only come out at night because sunlight would turn them to stone.
According to statistics, Australian women are the most likely to have sex on the first date.
According to the 1900 U.S. Census, there were: 596,000 carpenters, 280,000 laundresses, 220,000 blacksmiths, 134,000 tailors, 102,000 shoemakers, 42,000 porters, 37,000 stonecutters, 25,000 millers, 8,000 bootblacks, and 7,000 furriers
According to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Finnish word SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS a soapstone seller is the longest known palindrome in any language.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the single-seeded fruit of the giant fan palm, or Lodoicea maldivica, can weigh 44 lbs. Commonly known as the double coconut or coco de mer, it is found wild only in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
According to the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is someone between the age of 15 and 64.
According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
According to the Population Council, people overwhelmingly tend to marry partners who live near them.
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United States in the 1890s was a farmer. Today, it’s a salesman.
According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time. (It's just like its better to water your plants in the early mornings or the evenings)
According to the United States Postal Service, each person sent on average 689 letters throughout the year of 1996.
Activated charcoal made from coconut shells is the odor absorbing agent in odor-eating shoe liners.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.
Actress Jayne Mansfield accidentally exhaled her breast out of her dress during the telecast of the Academy Awards in 1957.
Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.
Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 270 million 1999 dollars.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.
Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1846.
Adult bears can run as fast as horses.
Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.
Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
Africa's 8,000-year brewing history began with ancient Egyptian commercial brewing dynasties and still includes handmade tribal beers.
After Canada and Mexico, Russia is the nearest neighbor to the United States. Siberia’s easternmost point is just 56 miles from Alaska. In fact, in the middle of the Bering Strait, Russia’s Big Diomede Island and the U.S.’s Little Diomede Island are only two miles apart.
After his death in 896, the body of Pope Formosus was dug up and tried for various crimes.
After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
After the decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
Air pollution may contribute to two percent of all deaths in the US, some 50,000 cases per year. A nine-year study of US cities showed a strong correlation between death rates and periods of significant pollution.
Airbags are deployed at a rate of two-hundred miles per hour.
Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.
Alaska, with 8, is the US state with the most national park sites.
Alaska's borders make it the farthest state east, west and north. Its Aleutian Islands extends across the 180th meridian, which puts the islands chain's end in the eastern hemisphere.
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).
Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
Alexander H. Stephens was Jefferson Davis's Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Alfalfa sprouts and feta cheese contain bacteria that could be harmful to small children and pregnant women.
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called Blackmail and was made in 1931.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
All elephants walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of no bone just fat.
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
All mammals have tongues.
All mammals, except man and monkey are color blind.
All nude people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.
All of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot springs.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All of the proceeds from James Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
Interesting facts
INTERESTING FACTS
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it)
2. If you fart 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)
3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
(In my next life I want to be a pig)
(How'd they figure this out, and why?)
4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Still can't get over that pig thing)
(Don't try this at home...maybe at work?)
5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)
(And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn't seem fair)
6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmmmmm........)
7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
(If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(From drinking little bottles of...?)
(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)
9. Polar bears are left handed.
(Who knew....? Who cares? How'd they find out, did they ask them?)
10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)
11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes...can you imagine?? And why pigs?)
12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
(Creepy)
13. 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....)
(Well, at least pigs get a break there...)
14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(In my next life I still want to be a pig ... quality over quantity)
15. Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Oh, Geez) (That's almost as bad as catfish)
16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
(I know some people like that.)
17. Starfish don't have brains.
(I know some people like that too.)
Interesting Facts II
1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)
19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
21. Pearls melt in vinegar.
22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)
26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
29. Butterflies taste with their feet.
30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
34. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)
38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
39. A snail can sleep for three years.
40. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
44. All polar bears are left handed.
45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
46. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
48. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow
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You have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut. (Click here)
Unique animals. Hippopotami cannot swim (ppl have said that a hippo can swim, but i dont think its classified as swimming. I'll check), whales can't swim backwards, tarantulas can't spin webs, crocodiles can't chew and hummingbirds can't walk
Ants
- Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue
- An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
- The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
- Ants dont sleep. Thanx teepo (apparently noone can be sure since they don't have eyelids, they also have no need for sleep)
- Ants taste like sweet tarts. (from experience..)Thanx RiffSingr
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin. (But one also wonders how big a milk glass is... anyone?)
The gases emitted from a banana or an apple can help an orange ripen. (Not sure which fruits are concerned).
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates. Thanx Rebecca
Australia is a major exporter of camels
Australia has no native monkeys. (in the wild)
Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world
Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)
Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights
There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
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Most caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes colour after child birth.
Believe that Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad... are all prophets from God? Have you heard of the baha'i faith?
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. (apparently they fuse together such as the parietal, occipital of the skull) thanx Christie
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Wow... utterly amazing huh
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. < == ( the arrow is pointing left. Just in case)
The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer). The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.
Bees
- Bees can see ultraviolet light.
- Most honey bees die after it stings people as our skin is elastic, unsuitable for their stingers which are meant for harder inelastics skins. Their venom glands are also torn out in the process. (So removing the stinger by piching the tip is well, in one word, dumb.jk)Thanx Mr Tuvai
- A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.
There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined. Thanx Julie for this and a couple more
Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they'll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit -- because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed
The Burramundy, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed. (i think papaya(papua?) trees are the same)
The first bar code was used on Wrigleys gum
Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B. (hmmm...)
Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
Bulls are not attracted to the colour redThanx Gwynovere C.
Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan, to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains during birth. (Got this off my lecture).
Babies crawl an average of 200m a day
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck
If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won't pop.Thanx harrison
Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958.(Hang on... Bruce Lee a cha cha king? This i gotta see) He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather. THanx Mrtan787
What does a Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow,Julia and Great Egg Fly have in common? They're all butterflies!Thanx Bijou
The BEAVER, is America's largest rodent and can remain underwater for 20 minutes! erm... sealions can do that as well (just something random)
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.
A boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight (120ft). Click here
Eating breakfast will help you burn from 5-20% more calories throughout the day. Click here
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day. Click here
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Colour blind people are used to detect camouflaged units in previous war-fare. And some of you thought Jonathan was useless.. :P~
Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light. (But did you reeeeally want to know this?)
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten (unsure)
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear
Cockroach
- The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
- Fried cockroach with garlic is used as medicine for the common cold (unsure)
- The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second.
- If it were human size, it could run at speeds of 300MPH.
- If you cut off the head of a cockroach, it can still survive but will eventually die, but only because it cannot eat without its head.
- cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
Coffee beans can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into O type blood
Rubbing cocoa butter on your abdomen during pregnancy will prevent stretch marks. Thanx udamann
The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost 186,000 miles per second.
If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll lose more energy than you'll gain from actually eating it.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen.
The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script. (I could have sworn it was more.)
For those who love to drink Coke
In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
There are more chickens than people in the world. (unsure)
On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.Thanx Doug B. and Dwain
In the city of Carmel, where Clint Eastwood grew up, they dont have postmen, coz they dont have street numbers. Ppl go to the post office to collect their mail. Thanx Erin
The first contraceptive diaphragms, centuries ago, were citrus rinds (i.e., half an orange rind). Casanova used half lemon rinds as a cervical cap and the acidic juice as a potent spremicide(something that kills sperms).Thanx Donna C.
Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers
Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out. (I wonder why)
Crocodiles can snap their jaws in 1/8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth
Everyone is colourblind at birth (check here)
In 1915, Winston Churchill fought in the front line trenches before he became the Minister of Munitions.Thanx Shadey66
Cows release 50 million metric tonnes of methane gas a year.
Cows sweat through their noses. (Think twice before clicking here.)
An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.
Cows, like my grannie, do not have upper teeth.
Chocolate is potentially lethal to a dog coz cocoa beans contain theobromine which can poison the poor bastard
Coral (pro osteon) has molecular architecture and chemistry similar to human bone and so it can be used to replace bone grafts, helping bones heal faster. 150-200 pounds of it can sustain hundreds of graphs
The liquid inside coconuts can be used as blood plasma substitutes!
There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind. Click here
80% of arrested criminals are male. (and you girls thought that we just sit on the couch and fart whole day).
Canada actually comes from the word 'Kanata', a Huron or Iroquois word for village, and Canada is a 'big village'.
The Catholic Church only declared in 1992 that the earth may go round the sun.
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Laika the dog, was the first living thing which was sent to space. (remember snoopy?)
Dominique Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon, could amputate a leg in 13 seconds.
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he/it doesn't wear pants
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Dentistry has also achieved the highest number suicidal deaths for a profesional job. Thanx Dan R.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Calculating DNA length for each person, it would stretch across the diameter of the solar system. 6 000 000 000 000 basepairx 0.6 nm x 1013 cell = 3.6x1016 metres
If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia
Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
The amount of drag or air resistance produced by putting your bicycle on top of your car is so great that on a trip from England to Scotland it would be cheaper to send it by train because of the fuel consumption to overcome the drag
The "Daddy long legs" spider has venom to be used as a defensive mechanism. Don't worry though, coz it cannot puncture human skin, and even if it did, it would PROBABLY only cause a allergic reaction
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell
It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It's in a journal on Lancet. Click here
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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand, and Bujang Senang has 2.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
Mr Ennis used to be a singer for a jazz band (He's my modern history teacher)
Emus cannot walk backwards.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Everest is not the tallest mountain. Mauna Kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater! Everest is only 8848m.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died, so his middle name Aaron is in his honour. In 1971, he was appointed an honourary FBI agent by Nixon before Nixon's resignation.Thanx Spike
There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. Thanx Laine S.
E-mails started in 1971. Ray Tomlinson is it's DADDY!! and the first e-mail was sent WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE.
During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
Elephants can't jump.
Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. (Do you drink milk?)
An elephant has 4 knees
English is a crazy language
If you try to squeeze the ends of an egg with your thumb and finger and you wont be able to break it. Thats probably why people use the design so often or used to for building (arches) gutters drain pipes the skull, makesa sense dont it? Thanx J Kennedy
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Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain
Certain frogs can reguritate their stomachs, in order to clean them (with their feet)
Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Flies
- Flies taste with their feet.
- A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it. (Listen up all you fly haters)
- Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.
Franz Ferdinand was killed.. remember that the guys death partly caused the WWI. Anyway, his death was almost unavoidable. After an attempted assasination using a bomb failed, (because the bomb hit the rear mud flap of the car Ferdinand was in and bounced away) authorities decided to change the route of Ferdinands tour... but failed to inform the driver of the car. And so, unfortunately, at one stage, the driver took a wrong turn and drove into an alley. While reversing out, Princip (killer) came and shot Ferdinand and his wife at a distance of 4-5 feet killing them. Ferdinand brought his wife to Serejavo to celebrate their anniversary. (And you thought you had a bad day)
Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die.
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph
Now, where did the word 'fuck' come from? Click here to find out
Finagle's Law was the one that went, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." Not Murphy's Law.
Rosalind Franklin was the woman behind Watson and Crick's doudle helix DNA model. She did all the experiments, but died before she was paid credit. Watson and Crick merely took her results and interpreted it.
Some frogs use sugars as an antifreeze for vital organs
Some frogs like the wood frog and some turtles can stop their heart and frost their tissues during winter and defrost after that
The reason firehouse stairways are circular is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor but figured out how to walk up straight staircases. (unsure)
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too.
Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans. Their lips are prehensile, their tongues are 21 inches long, and they cannot cough.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
Galileo became totally blind shortly before his death.(probably from looking at the sun too much)
As of 14.10.2003, only 0.6% of people actually sign the guestbook. Its true. Over 120,000 visitors. Yes, the statistic did go down.
Goldfish have the memory span of about 3-5 seconds, thats why you can leave them in a small jar and they wont get bored and you can also over feed them till they kaput.
If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white. (be reminded of the RSPCA though)
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
If you rubbed garlic on the sole of your feet, it would be absorbed and eventually show up on your breath (unsure)
If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each. Thanx clem
When glass breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it. To reiterate, I will repeat it again one more time, to recap, TOWARDS the force, not away.
People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
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Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes
Astronauts grow taller (height) in space
The horse shoe crab has blue blood which can be used to kill bacteria
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The Honda Accord has the highest stolen rate in the US according to NCIB. thanx jon cook
A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside
Hippos kill more people in Africa when compared to crocodiles. (pfft, with a mouth that big and a fart to match...)
During warm weather, hippos secrete a reddish, oily fluid, called pink sweat, which acts as a skin conditioner to keep it moist.
In a year, your heart can beat up to 40 000 000 times! Thanx eric c.
Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border. Soviets have been drilling since 1970 and it is over 40 000 ft. This is used to study the earth's core.Thanx Kristian B
The female spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has a 'penis'. (RARE!!! MUST READ!!!) Thanx Z Kirsch
Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
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Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time. (It's just like its better to water your plants in the early mornings or the evenings)
An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.
In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are humans on earth
In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted.
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
Jaguars are frightened by dogs
Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.(unsure)
The sound you hear when you macho people crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Okay, ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labelled "Kachiap". (Funky? I think not. Try their sweet chicken sauce. Thumbs up.)
4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
Koalas have twin thumbs
Koala bears also have finger prints that are almost identical to ours (*disregard 'ours' if you're not human)
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Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right". Don't believe me?.Thanx De Composed
If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time
The right lung is slightly larger than the left
Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. He could also draw with one hand and write with the other.He ALSO wrote his notes backwards, going from right to left, just as a mental exercise.Thanx De Composed
There ARE clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.Thanx CPPnz and udamann (who lived there for 5 years)
To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
More than 92 465 people that did the death test in www.thespark.com claimed they had leprosy. (everybody's a joker)
The "London Bridge" is now in Arizona in the U.S.A. This fat cat(rich guy) bought it for only $2.46 million dollars.Click here Thanx Allen A.
Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not dirty ones. click here
Los Angeles was formerly known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula or The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion although its official name was simply El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.Thanx Beth
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right". Don't believe me?.Thanx De Composed
Men are more likely to be left-handed(10%) than females(8%)
It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago
Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F)
If you were at 0° latitude and 0° longtitude, you would be standing in the Atlantic Ocean (thought some of you would like to know this)
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A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
A male emperor moth can detect and find a female of his species a mile away.
You can test for a two way mirror by putting your fingernail on the surface, if there's space between the tip and the image, then its a normal mirror, if not, its two way.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.
Marilyn Monroe's real name is Norma Jean. (after all this time...)
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
December 1972 U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to set foot on the moon.(Didn't know they stopped going there)
The magnetic North Pole shifts by about 7 meters a day.
Only female mosquitoes bite. Males only drink water and plant juice. (There goes that debate..)
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, BUT, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch-slap the mo**erf**k*r upside the head, and 2 muscles to move your lips and tell the person to kiss your ass.
You can only tell the gender of a Macaw through an operation. They lack exterior genetials.
As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by YOUR HEAD! visit microshield
More Monopoly is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. Thanx Gwynovere C.
The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.Thanx Shawna
A mole can dig about 92 metres in 1 night
Most marine fish can survive in a tank filled with human blood
According to Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard 5km (3.3 miles for u Americans) away. (reminds me of a girl i once knew..)
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
Mosquito repellents dont really repel mozzies. They actually block the sensory pores and makes the mozzies think they're flying to a colder, dryer, more CO2 free area. VIOLA! No bites Thanx Davina
The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured. Click here
The metric system was to blame for the loss of the Mars Climate orbiter. (Read this!)
All mammals have tongues.
A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.
Mules are genetically sterile. i.e. they cannot reproduce. (however, there has been a first)
Monosodium glutamate can be found in mushrooms thanx liz chell, tomatoes and meat. MSG is safe to consume, and is essentially made of only water, sodium and glutamate. It contains only 1/3 the amount of sodium found in table salt, and can reduce salt intake in recipes.Click here
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
The Nile catfish swim upside down.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
Neck ties were first worn in Croatia.
The entire worlds output of urine takes about 45 minutes to go over the Niagra falls. (unsure)
The bridge across the Niagra Falls began with a kite carrying a line across it.
It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion (just try it..hehehe)
Nobel, actually invented dynamite, (Dynamite no.1 and Ballistite) but when he saw the destruction it caused, he decided to do something benevolent with all the money he made. Hence the Nobel Prize. Thanx 'a girl named Ryan'
Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old.
Your nostrils take turns inhaling. You breathe through one for about 3-4 hours then switch to the other one. THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE sGROSSOLOGY EXHIBITION: THE SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN BODY(Sounds dodgy to me)
Despite the many rat infested slums in New York City, only 311 people are bitten by rats in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers (Unsure but grabbed this and a few more from humourplanet. Apparently true)
The numbers 111 222 333 444 555 666 777 888 999 are all multiples of 37. Thanx liz chell
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Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
The eggs from the ovaris of a pig, when shot into another animal, can sterelise it, making it impotent.
An oyster can change its sex once every seven days. (This may have some phychological implications)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Ok food fans! Whats in an oxtail soup? "Oxen tails!" i hear you say...well, wrong. Try beef cattle. (unsure)
Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water
An Octopus has 3 hearts!
The Ostrich people in Africa are a group of people who have only 2 toes due to inbreeding (From Ripley's believe it or not
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Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them. No head popping. thanx 8=o and udamann)
Porcupines float in water. (Who would've thought.)
In the 1960's, the US spent millions developing a zero gravity pen for use in space, and the Russians...., they used pencils. :)
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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.
In the early stages of development, and pig's embroyo is similar to that of a human's.
Pears ripen from the inside out, and according to a survey on the lifestyle channel, men prefer hard pears while women prefer soft pears.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole
When potatoes were brought from South America over to Spain, it took about 200 years before it was recognized as a food. (Now they can't get their hands off it. Go figure.)
Prague consumes 3 times more beer than all the soft drinks combined
The Pacific Ocean was named by Magellen because it was calmer than the Atlantic
Polar bears are left handed.
The hair on a polar bearis not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.
Pregnant female polar bears will not eat for several months while resting in her den under the snow. Thanx Tony W.
POSSLQ in a census form means "Person of opposite sex sharing living Quarters" (this is totally random, even for this website)
Preys like buffalos react poorly to slow movements. That's why crocs can swim slowly over to them without them scuttering off.
Since the beginning of this fact, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A
Pearls can melt/dissolve in vineger. Click here
The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb." Listen to it here(1/3 of page)
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
Pigs cannot sweat because they don't have sweat glands. Instead, they roll around in mud to keep cool.
In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
Would you believe that pigs are smarter than dogs? On the human intelligence scale, pigs are third removed from humans, while dogs are 13th removed, and only primates and dolphines are smarter than pigs. They are quick one time learners, and some learn by watching others. (I dont know how much of this is true, coming from a site called Pig's Peace Sanctuary
Most people know what pH means, but few people know that it stands for pondus hydrogenii which means potential hydrogen and that each unit is a phidron. Thanx Pramesh H
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Mary Queen of Scots was a skilful billiards player
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The gender of Reptiles are determined not by the sex genes, but by the temperature in which the egg is incubated. A certain temperature will produce a male and vice versa for a female.
A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth
Male feral rabbits urinate on the females to state their ownership
Female rabbits on the other hand, reabsorb their embryo for the proteins
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Rubberbands last longer when refregerated
Rice and some other grains contain chemicals that can enhance brain functions.
The Ribbon worm will start eating itself to avoid starvation
Rats cannot vomit (why?)
Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph)
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Snakes have two sex organs... in case one drops off in their fervent attempt to trick females into mating..
Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They'll 'snap' and sting themself.
No piece of dry square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
Slugs have 4 noses
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. They also dont have brains. (See the connection?)
1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
Dall's porpoise never sleeps, elephants sleep two hours a day, horses nap standing up, and Sitatunga antelopes can sleep submerged
In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century. (I won't even comment on this one)
Sting was a high school teacher
Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick
A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.
It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
When you put a seashell to your ear, the sound you hear is not the waves, but actually the echo of the blood pulsing in your own ear.
The salute of uniform bodies (eg. army, police) originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First off would be your sight.
There is a member of the spider family called the demodex folliculorum that lives at the root of people's eye lashes. It's harmless and normal.(so they claim) To look for them, grab a handful of your eyelashes and dunk them in warm water. They'll start swimming out. It is prevalent in nearly 100% of old people in the U.S. click here Thanx Grant
Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.thanx kim (Now dont you feel more contented each night before you go to sleep ALONE)
Your body releases growth hormones when you sleep.
Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often)
In the Simpsons series, Homer has said 3267 "Doh!"
An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The sun's average period of rotation is 27 days. (as if you'd care)
The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon. (right out of blueskyfrog quizzes)
Soybean actually has Diadzein and genistein that act like weak estrogen.
The average person swallows one liter of snot every day. This is from the MN Science Museum. (and i bet you downed a few reading all this. hahaha) Thanx a girl named Ryan
Shirley Temple always has 56 curls in her hair. (talk about uptight). Thanx Gwynovere C.
Your skin weighs about 3.2kg
A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)Thanx Beth
In every episode of TV's Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere in at least one scene. (There's plastic figurine on the shelf in the dining area, and a magnetic Superman on the fridge!)
Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup. $4 per capita. Australia is second at $2.50
The sea contains about 1/2 of the world's known animal groups
Male seagulls have red legs. (From National Geographic)
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km per hour
You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.thanx CHs2592
A snail can sleep for three years.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny.It is a.k.a 'the poor man's weatherglass'
In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen ("Cymbeline"), with 591 lines.
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St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players!!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Anne Archer are members of the Church of Scientology
When the German army invaded France in WWI, they actually followed the schedules of the local trains to invade (it was faster by rail and they wanted to surprise France), checking the timetable and abiding by it. And France, whose army was waiting at the border, sent taxis to pick up and transport the troops to counter the attack!
The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.
It is impossible to get water out of a rimless tyre. (If any of you are acutally that free.., try confirming this one.)Thanx Nat
The tiger is the largest member of the cat family. (One guy in "Who wants to be a millionaire" got this one wrong. So soak it in.)
In most comic strips and magazine advertisments, the time on the clock is 10:10.
The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years. (then what?)
In turtles, the colon(intestine) is also used for respiration, as it takes in oxygen. Thats how they stay underwater for so long.
Tarantulas have retractable claws like cats and the hairs on their abdomen and back legs can stick into an enemy and itch. They also get bald on their thorax when they get old. Thanx Laura
Some reconstituted tobacco contains the same ingredients found in fart. (Go figure)Thanx Emir
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.(honestly, who think these things up?)
When the temperature drops, the eyesight reaction time of insects (like the dragonfly and some animals like tortoises) decrease and thats why they can be caught early in the morning or at night by predators like birds whose eyesight reaction times are unaffected by temperature. (from Animal Planet)
Did you know a tuna called the 'Blue Fin' tuna can be sold for over $20,000 around the world?
Toothbrushes should be kept 6 feet away from the toilet to avoid being contaminated by airborne stuff stirred up after flushing
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis
Did you know that in Tibet there is actually a practice called 'polyandry' where many men, usually brothers, marry a single woman? This takes place so that only one set of children will inherit the land. (*snicker* The excuses they come up with)
The Taj Mahal in India is perfectly symetrical, except for one thing. The two tombs inside are not equal in size. This is because the male tomb has to be larger than the female tomb.
The minarets ofthe Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees outwards so that they would not collapse into the structure should an earthquake occur
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Uranus was originally called George, in honour of King George III of Britain
URanus' axis is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic.)Thanx ...
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Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child and would be about 100,000 miles in an adult - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards.
A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.
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Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
We lose half a litre of water a day through breathing. This is the water vapour we see when we breathe onto glass.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'. It came from the author's friends, whom he called his "fwendy" (friend) Thanx 'a girl named Ryan'
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume.Thanx Tony W.
If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9!! different ways; Read this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." Thanx Marky
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise except in one country. (or so i'm told)
Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways.
Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded; sounds that have more energy than jet plane noise.
It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.
Humpback whales are the only ones that use bubbles to help capture their prey. The bubbles trap fish in a spot for feeding whales.
Fin whales are the second largest animal ever to live on earth. They have been measured to over 80 feet long in Antarctic waters.
The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessal is so broad, that a person could swim through it.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.... (from humourplanet)
The words racecar, kayak, level and Navy Van are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left, and these are called palindromes. The longest palindromes in the dictionary however are the words 'Malayalam''rotavator' 'redivider'. Now check these out. 'A man a plan a canal panama'. 'Ten animals i slam in a net'thanx seraph, mashkur, hannah b, marky and jay, jelly baby king
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Xylophones(Greek xylon,"wood"; phone,"sound") were actually developed in South East Asia in the 14th centuaryThank you thank you Gwynovere C.
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If you pile up the cans of Yeo's products, you would be able to reach the moon.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (unsure)
The term Y2K was invented by David Eddie in June 1995 through the email.
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Zebras are not black with white stripes, but are actually white with black stripes, coz if any of you animal lovers happen to stare at it's butt, you'll notice that the black stripes end there. (Care to look??) thanx Haux Bum
Zero point energy is a source of energy which is released when atoms stop moving, at -273 Celcius. Impossible?
The number 666 is cool. Made (in?)famous by the Book of Revelation (Chapter 13, verse 18, to be exact), it is also interesting because of its many numerical properties. Here is a compendium of mathematical facts about the number 666. Most of the well-known "chestnuts" are included, but many of these are relatively new and have not been published elsewhere.
The number 666 is a simple sum and difference of the first three 6th powers:
666 = 16 - 26 + 36.
It is also equal to the sum of its digits plus the cubes of its digits:
666 = 6 + 6 + 6 + 6³ + 6³ + 6³.
There are only five other positive integers with this property. Exercise: find them, and prove they are the only ones!
666 is related to (6² + n²) in the following interesting ways:
666 = (6 + 6 + 6) · (6² + 1²)
666 = 6! · (6² + 1²) / (6² + 2²)
The sum of the squares of the first 7 primes is 666:
666 = 2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²
The sum of the first 144 (= (6+6)·(6+6)) digits of pi is 666.
16661 is the first beastly palindromic prime, of the form 1[0...0]666[0...0]1. The next one after 16661 is
1000000000000066600000000000001
which can be written concisely using the notation 1 013 666 013 1, where the subscript tells how many consecutive zeros there are. Harvey Dubner determined that the first 7 numbers of this type have subscripts 0, 13, 42, 506, 608, 2472, and 2623 [see J. Rec. Math, 26(4)].
A very special kind of prime number [first mentioned to me by G. L. Honaker, Jr.] is a prime, p (that is, let's say, the kth prime number) in which the sum of the decimal digits of p is equal to the sum of the digits of k. The beastly palindromic prime number 16661 is such a number, since it is the 1928'th prime, and
1 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 1 = 1 + 9 + 2 + 8.
The triplet (216, 630, 666) is a Pythagorean triplet, as pointed out to me by Monte Zerger. This fact can be rewritten in the following nice form:
(6·6·6)² + (666 - 6·6)² = 666²
There are only two known Pythagorean triangles whose area is a repdigit number:
(3, 4, 5) with area 6
(693, 1924, 2045) with area 666666
It is not known whether there are any others, though a computer search has verified that there are none with area less than 1040. [see J. Rec. Math, 26(4), Problem 2097 by Monte Zerger]
The sequence of palindromic primes begins 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 131, 151, 181, 191, 313, 353, etc. Taking the last two of these, we discover that 666 is the sum of two consecutive palindromic primes:
666 = 313 + 353.
A well-known remarkably good approximation to pi is 355/113 = 3.1415929... If one part of this fraction is reversed and added to the other part, we get
553 + 113 = 666.
[from Martin Gardner's "Dr. Matrix" columns] The Dewey Decimal System classification number for "Numerology" is 133.335. If you reverse this and add, you get
133.335 + 533.331 = 666.666
[from G. L. Honaker, Jr.] There are exactly 6 6's in 6666. There are also exactly 6 6's in the previous sentence!
[by P. De Geest, slight refinement by M. Keith] The number 666 is equal to the sum of the digits of its 47th power, and is also equal to the sum of the digits of its 51st power. That is,
| 66647 = |
5049969684420796753173148798405564772941516295265
4081881176326689365404466160330686530288898927188
59670297563286219594665904733945856 |
| 66651 = |
9935407575913859403342635113412959807238586374694
3100899712069131346071328296758253023455821491848
0960748972838900637634215694097683599029436416 |
and the sum of the digits on the right hand side is, in both cases, 666. In fact, 666 is the only integer greater than one with this property. (Also, note that from the two powers, 47 and 51, we get (4+7)(5+1) = 66.)
The number 666 is one of only two positive integers equal to the sum of the cubes of the digits in its square, plus the digits in its cube. On the one hand, we have
6662 = 443556
6663 = 295408296
while at the same time,
(43 + 43 + 33 + 53 + 53 + 63) + (2+9+5+4+0+8+2+9+6) = 666.
The other number with this property is 2583.
We can state properties like this concisely be defining Sk(n) to be the sum of the kth powers of the digits of n. Then we can summarize items #13, #14, and #2 on this page by simply writing:
| 666 |
= S2(666) + S3(666) |
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= S1(66647) |
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= S1(66651) |
| |
= S3(6662) + S1(6663) |
[P. De Geest and G. L. Honaker, Jr.] Now that we have the Sk(n) notation, define SP(n) as the sum of the first n palindromic primes. Then:
S3( SP(666) ) = 3 · 666
where the same digits (3, 666) appear on both sides of the equation!
[by Carlos Rivera] The number 20772199 is the smallest integer with the property that the sum of the prime factors of n and the sum of the prime factors of n+1 are both equal to 666:
20772199 = 7 x 41 x 157 x 461, and 7+41+157+461 = 666
20772200 = 2x2x2x5x5x283x367, and 2+2+2+5+5+283+367 = 666.
Of course, integers n and n+1 having the same sum of prime factors are the famous Ruth-Aaron pairs. So we can say that (20772199, 20772200) is the smallest beastly Ruth-Aaron pair.
[by G. L. Honaker, Jr.] The sum of the first 666 primes contains 666:
2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 · · · + 4969 + 4973 = 1533157 = 23 · 66659
[Wang, J. Rec. Math, 26(3)] The number 666 is related to the golden ratio! (If a rectangle has the property that cutting off a square from it leaves a rectangle whose proportions are the same as the original, then that rectangle's proportions are in the golden ratio. Also, the golden ratio is the limit, as n becomes large, of the ratio between adjacent numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.) Denoting the Golden Ratio by t, we have the following identity, where the angles are in degrees:
sin(666) = cos(6·6·6) = -t/2
which can be combined into the lovely expression:
t = - (sin(666) + cos(6·6·6) )
There are exactly two ways to insert '+' signs into the sequence 123456789 to make the sum 666, and exactly one way for the sequence 987654321:
666 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 567 + 89 = 123 + 456 + 78 + 9
666 = 9 + 87 + 6 + 543 + 21
[from Patrick Capelle]
666 is a divisor of 123456789 + 987654321.
[from Patrick Capelle] 666 can be expressed just using the digit 3, as
666 = p(3·3·3) + p(p(3·3·3))
where p(i) means the ith prime number (that is, p(1) = 2, p(2) = 3, p(3) = 5, etc.)
A Smith number is an integer in which the sum of its digits is equal to the sum of the digits of its prime factors. 666 is a Smith number, since
666 = 2·3·3·37
while at the same time
6 + 6 + 6 = 2 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 7.
Consider integers n with the following special property: if n is written in binary, then the one's complement is taken (which changes all 1's to 0's and all 0's to 1's), then the result is written in reverse, the result is the starting integer n. The first few such numbers are
2 10 12 38 42 52 56 142 150 170 178 204 212 232 240 542 558 598 614...
For example, 38 is 100110, which complemented is 011001, which reversed is 100110. Now, you don't really need to be told what the next one after 614 is, do you?
The following fact is quite well known, but still interesting: If you write the first 6 Roman numerals, in order from largest to smallest, you get 666:
DCLXVI = 666.
The previous one suggests a form of word play that was popular several centuries ago: the chronogram. A chronogram attaches a numerical value to an English phrase or sentence by summing up the values of any Roman numerals it contains. (Back then, U,V and I,J were often considered the same letter for the purpose of the chronogram, however I prefer to distinguish them.) What's the best English chronogram for 666? Here's one that's pretty apt:
Expect The Devil.
Note that four of the six numerals are contained in the last word.
A standard function in number theory is phi(n), which is the number of integers smaller than n and relatively prime to n. Remarkably,
phi(666) = 6·6·6.
The nth triangular number is given by the formula T(n) = (n)(n+1)/2, and is equal to the sum of the numbers from 1 to n.
666 is the 36th triangular number - in other words,
T(6·6) = 666.
In 1975 Ballew and Weger proved (see J. Rec. Math, Vol. 8, No. 2):
666 is the largest triangular number that's also a repdigit
(A repdigit is a number consisting of a single repeated non-zero digit, like 11 or 22 or 555555.)
[From Patrick Capelle] 666 is the sum of the squares of two consecutive triangular numbers:
666 = 152 + 212
which can also be elegantly written as
T(6·6) = T(5)2 + T(6)2.
But also note that T(5) + T(6) = T(8). Indeed, 666 is the smallest triangular number of the form a2 + b2 with a+b also triangular.
The doubly-triangular numbers are those numbers of the form T(T(n)), where T(n) are the triangular numbers defined in the previous item. The sequence of doubly-triangular numbers begins
1, 6, 21, 55, 120, 321, 406, 666, 1035
so we see that 666 is the eighth doubly-triangular number (i.e., T(T(8)) = 666).
The nth doubly-triangular number is, among other things, the number of ways to paint the vertices of a square using a set of n colors, where the colors are distinct but rotations and reflections of a given colored square are considered the same. So there are 666 distinct ways of painting the vertices of a square with a set of eight colors.
[from Monte Zerger] 6 (= T(3)), 66 (= T(11)), and 666 (= T(36)) are all triangular numbers in base 10. These three numbers are also triangular in two other bases: 49 and 2040:
(6)49 = 6 = T(3)
(66)49 = 300 = T(24)
(666)49 = 14706 = T(171)
(6)2040 = 6 = T(3)
(66)2040 = 12246 = T(1564)
(666)2040 = 24981846 = T(7068)
[from Monte Zerger] 6666 = 87266061345623616, which contains 6 6's. In addition, the digits of 6666 can be split into two sets in two different ways, both of which sum up to the same value, 36 (= 6 x 6).
The first eight and last nine digits both sum to 36:
8 + 7 + 2 + 6 + 6 + 0 + 6 + 1 = 6 x 6 = 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 2 + 3 + 6 + 1 + 6
while the 6's and non-6's also add up to 36:
6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 6 x 6 = 8 + 7 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 2 + 3 + 1
Finally, note that 6666 is almost pandigital - the only digit it's missing is an upside-down 6 (i.e., 9).
A polygonal number is a positive integer of the form
P(k,n) = n((k - 2)n + 4 - k)/2
where k is the 'order' of the polygonal number (k=3 gives the triangular numbers, k=4 the squares, k=5 the pentagonal numbers, etc.), and n is its index. A repdigit polygonal number is a polygonal number that also happens to be a repdigit. Finally, define the wickedness of a polygonal number as n/k. Now, an amazing fact:
666 is conjectured to be the most wicked repdigit polygonal number.
Since 666 = P(3,36), its wickedness value is n/k = 12. I recently showed by computer calculation that there are no counterexamples to this conjecture less than 1050. See my paper here for more details. It seems quite certain that this is true but so far no one has proved it.
Whilst on the subject of polygonal numbers, we can find among them some rather beastly configurations. One of the more striking is the following:
If one arranges a group of people in a solid 3010529326318802-sided polygon with 666 people on each side, there will be a total of 666666666666666666666 persons in all.
Or, more simply, P(3010529326318802, 666) = 666666666666666666666. See the paper link in the previous item for more like this.
Define PI(n,d) as the d consecutive decimal digits of the number π (3.14159265358979...) starting at the nth digit after the decimal point. Then we can make the following pretty statement:
PI(666, 3) = 7·7·7 (since the digits at that position are "343", or 7 cubed)
as well as the following one, which contains nothing but 6's and 3's (and two 666's):
PI(666 · 3.663663663..., 3) = 666.
Inserting zeros between the sixes in 666 gives the number 60606, which has a few interesting properties of its own:
60606 = 7 x 13 x 666 = 91 x 666 = T(13) x T(36) - i.e., 60606 is the product of two triangular numbers.
60606 = 7 x 37 x (13 x 18), which is interesting in that Rev 13:18 is the place where 666 is mentioned.
60606 = P(7,156) - i.e., 60606 is a 7-gonal number. (Note that this can be written entirely using the evocative numbers 6, 7, and 13, by saying 60606 = P(7, (6+6)·13)). In addition we can make a statement using only 7's:
60606 is the 7th palindromic 7-gonal number.
60606 has exactly 6 prime factors.
60606+1 is a prime number. Not only that, but it's a prime (p) for which the period length of the decimal expansion of its reciprocal (1/p) attains the maximum possible value of p-1. In other words:
1/(60606 + 1) has period length 60606.
60606 is, just like 666, the sum of two consecutive palindromic primes (both of which contain the evil eyes!):
60606 = 30203 + 30403.
[Thanks to G. L. Honaker, Jr., Jud McCranie, Monte Zerger, and Patrick De Geest for these.]
[found by Jud McCranie] It is a theorem that every positive integer occurs as the period length of the reciprocal of some prime. So, the obvious question arises: what's the smallest prime with period length 666? The answer was found in June 1998:
p = 902659997773 is the smallest prime whose reciprocal has period length 666.
The first 666 digits after the decimal point of 1/p (which then repeat) are:
000000000001107836840523732794015856393629176199911567364459
553453849096605279881838076680979988886781773038423114524370
500571392445408560228574284480352437836776725525116619485115
892576776519141738094220028289530945207260114524370499463555
604884827434558428086723261636865158160657066031266795971496
637303661413240039402749172168836999999999998892163159476267
205984143606370823800088432635540446546150903394720118161923
319020011113218226961576885475629499428607554591439771425715
519647562163223274474883380514884107423223480858261905779971
710469054792739885475629500536444395115172565441571913276738
363134841839342933968733204028503362696338586759960597250827
831163
Observe that if you turn the prime p upside down, there's a 666 inside, slightly to the left of the middle, and if you turn the single period of 1/p upside down, there's a 66666666666 inside, slightly to the left of the middle!
[from Simon Whitechapel] A mathematically important number sequence is:
7, 17, 19, 23, 29, 47, 59, 61, 97, 109, 113, 131, 149, ...
which is the sequence of primes p whose reciprocal in base 10 has maximum period p-1. The last one, 1/149 with period 148, has the following digits after the decimal point (which then repeat):
0067114093959731543624161073825503355
7046979865771812080536912751677852348
9932885906040268456375838926174496644
2953020134228187919463087248322147651
As luck would have it, the sum of these is 666. If these 148 numbers (the first 148 digits of 1/149) are written as the top row of a 148x148 square grid, and then the digits of 2/149 as the second row, then 3/149 and so on, the result is a 148x148 pseudo-magic square, in which every row and column sums to 666.
[sent in by P. De Geest] The smallest prime number with a gap of 666 (that is, such that the prime following it is larger than it by exactly 666) is
18691113008663
Note the three sixes! Also, Patrick Capelle points out that this prime (1869113008663) and the following one (1869113008663 + 666 = 18691113009329) both have the same digit sum, 53 (also a prime).
Define a dottable fraction as one in which dots (representing multiplication) can be interspersed in both the numerator and denominator to produce an expression that's equal to the original fraction. The noteworthy dottable fraction
666 = 6·6·6
64676 6·46·76
has a numerator of 666 and a denominator of the form 6x6y6.
Here's another one (actually, two) based on a fraction [by Manley Perkel and Mike Keith]. The fraction 1666/6664 (which has a 666 in both numerator and denominator) has two interesting properties:
(1) The numerical value of the fraction (0.25) is the same as the numerical value of the fraction you get by "canceling" (i.e., erasing or removing) the 666 from both the numerator and denominator.
(2) The value of the fraction is the same as the value you get by splitting the fraction in half and multiplying the two parts together; that is,
1666 = 16 . 66
6664 66 64 A fraction like this is known as a fractured fraction.
The alphametic below has a unique solution (i.e., there is only one way to replace letters with digits so that the addition sum is correct):
[by Monte Zerger] Note that 1998 (a recent year) = 666 + 666 + 666. Not only that, but if we set A=3, B=6, C=9, etc., we find, amazingly, that
NINETEEN NINETY EIGHT = 666
Frank Fiederer pointed out that the age of the United States in 1998 is also related to 666, since
1998 - 1776 = 666/3.
Finally, we close with an observation that makes a commentary on the folly of attaching a too-specific meaning to the number 666. If the letter A is defined to be equal to 36 (=6·6), B=37, C=38, and so on, then:
The sum of the letters in the word SUPERSTITIOUS is 666. |
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