36 random facts.
1. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
2. 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. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
8. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
9. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
10. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
11. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
12. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
13. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
14. Pearls melt in vinegar.
15. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. (why Ethel?)
16. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
17. 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.
18. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
19. Butterflies taste with their feet.
20. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
21. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
22. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
23. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
24. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
25. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
26. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
27. A snail can sleep for three years.
28. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
29. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
31. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
32. All polar bears are left handed.
33. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
34. 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.
35. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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7 comments:
OMG, no 10 is unbelievable! Hahaha starbucks has been conning us for 30 over years!
Errr, I don't know.
Since you've four stomachs like a cow, then.. you should know.
Where's no. 30th fact?
no 22 cannot be true!!!!!
lx
i fear all insects (and arachnids) more than anything else in the world lx.
and ethel, if i have 4 stomachs, u probably have 8.
haha claire, u shld have known that long ago!
NO YOU DON'T. SPIDERS ARE QUITE CUTE ACTUALLY YKNW!!!!!
lx
omg why the thg keep asking to to type random letters??? this is the 3rd time!
spiders cute? omg.... you freak.
get a blogger account then, stop asking me to switch to livejournal. haha.
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