Interesting Facts! It's way too COOL!!
* No two-spider webs are exactly the same.
* Owls eyeballs are not round like ours, but tubular.
* There are about 2,600 different species of frogs.
* The Greek national anthem has 158 verses. Only the first two are played at the Olympics.
* The volcanic eruption of Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 killed the most people. Close to 92,000 people died.
* The Turkey Vulture's digestive system has the unique ability to kill any virus or bacteria in the food the bird eats.
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
* Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.
TAKE A REST.
* Coffee is the world's most popular stimulant.
* Bees do not have ears.
* The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933.
* When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed "Hey Jude", to cheer Julian up.
* The blue whale is the largest animal on earth.
* The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
* You can keep mice on a table without a cage because mice are afraid to jump off high vertical drops.
* There are about 420 seats on the standard 747 jumbo jet.
* The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
* By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
TAKE ANOTHER REST.
* In February, the average temperature in the high Arctic is -34 C.
* Built in 1697, the Frankford Avenue Bridge which crosses Pennypack Creek in Philadelphia is the oldest U.S. bridge in continuous use.
* Flies mate during the first 5 days of life.
* Each link of the anchor chain on the Titanic was about 80 kg.
* Polar bears have more problems with overheating than they do with cold. Even in very cold weather, they quickly overheat when they try to run.
* The Great Wall stretches for 6,693 kilometers across North China.
* The moose is the largest member of the deer family. Its scientific name is Alces alces.
* Gandhi was born in 1869.
* A new born baby breathes five times faster than an adult man.
* Johnson & Johnson's "BAND-AID" brand adhesive bandages have been around for 75 years.
DIDn't I SAY YOU TAKE ANOTHER REST?
* Jeanne Louise Calment of France is the oldest fully authenticated human that has ever lived. She lived for 122 years and 164 days.
* Frogs drink and breathe through their skin.
* Elephants spend approximately 75% of their time feeding. They eat about 200kg of food per day and produce about 100kg of dung.
* An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
* A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
* It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
* When horses lift their heads up high to look at something, they're looking far into the distance. To see things that are closer, they lower their heads.
* A typical lightning bolt is four to eight centimetres wide and 3 kilometres long.
* The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
* When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within 20 minutes.
DID YOU LISTEN TO WHAT I've SAID?
* Potatoes were first imported by Europe in the 1500s on Spanish ships returning from Peru.
* Ken doll (Barbie's boyfriend) turns 40 this year.
* The African Rock Python can survive for two years without eating.
* The bowling ball was invented in 1862.
* The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
* Pope Adrian the VI died after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was drinking from a water fountain.
* In 1910, magician Harry Houdini was the first solo pilot to fly a plane in Australia.
* The amount potato chips Americans eat each year weighs six times more than the Titanic.
* A can of Diet Coke will float in water while a can of regular Coke sinks.
* About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
JUST GO REST!
* Paper was invented in China.
* There are 47 czars buried within the Kremlin.
* Diamonds are composed of just one chemical element, carbon.
* The mushroom "Ganoderma applanatum" can live up to 50 years.
* Dinosaurs were mostly vegetarians.
* If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
* Dolphins give birth to live young that are attached by an umbilical cord.
* In a three year period to classify various types of polio, over 30,000 monkeys were used.
* Eighty percent of the world's ice is in Antarctica.
* The Tonle Sap river in Cambodia flows north for half the year and then south for the rest of the year.
STUPID, Why did you listen to me?
* Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system. It has a diameter of 5,269 kilometres and is bigger than either Mercury or Pluto.
* In 1884, Hiram Maxim produced the first automatic machine gun.
* Close to 700,000 land mines were dug up from the banks of the Suez Canal after the 1973 war between Egypt and Israel.
* Flamingos can live up to 80 years.
* The first film to be given the title "Blockbuster" was Jaws in 1975.
* The first person to ever set foot on Antarctica was John Davis on February 7, 1821.
* The average life of a nuclear plant is 40 years.
* The densest substance on Earth is the metal osmium.
* The first American submarine was built around 1776.
* Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" book sold out the first day of publication. All 1,250 copies.
Hahaha!!! You're so Lame. You certainly need a rest now.
* Levi Strauss first wanted to sell his denim material to the miners who were searching for gold in 1850, in order to make tents and covers for their wagons.
* Noah Ketchup, an American Indian, began selling the tomato sauce which his wife used to make. Unfortunately, he made little money from his invention.
* John Montague, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, liked gambling but since he did not want to stop to eat a meal, he invented sandwiches in the second half of the 18th century.
* Otis P. Walkman's first walkman was rather poor - the device had to be pulled behind the wearer on a small wheeled cart.
* The majority of the men of the 1849 Gold Rush never came back home and died in poverty.
* Thomas Edison, a famous American inventor, was almost deaf, but did not want to be operated on because he said his deafness helped him concentrate better.
* The first bicycles were bumpy and had iron rims fitted to wooden wheels.
* When bees detect the source of food, they return to the hive and dance waving their abdomens to indicate to other bees that they had found food.
* If a man is stung by 500 bees, he can die.
* After eating onion, you should eat two teaspoons of honey in order to remove the unpleasant smell of the onion.
Too Much, so you can just come back another day. Now, go REST!
* On June 15, 1993, police surrounded Rochester General Hospital and tried to negotiate with an armed man. A few hours later, they realized they were negotiating with a mannequin.
* Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest who was the surveyor-general of India from 1830 to 1843. He was the first person to accurately survey the peak's height.
* Every day, 5 billion gallons of water is flushed down toilets in the United States.
* U.S. President Roosevelt exempted tobacco growers from having to fight in World War II because he declared tobacco an "essential crop."
* Sharks can live up to 100 years.
* Dough nuts originated in Holland.
* In 1950, an automatic spaghetti spinning fork was patented.
* Keanu Reeves once managed a pasta shop in Toronto.
* At 1.6 deaths for every 1000 persons, Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world.
* Ketchup originated in China.
Dumb, you're still here, can't you have enough reading? Your eyes need some rest!
* Rice paper does not have rice in it.
* In 1955, one-third of all watches sold were Timexes.
* Actor/Comedian Robin Williams was voted in high school the least likely to succeed.
* Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to 1.
* There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
* Bill Bowerman, founder of Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. He got the idea of using squared spikes to make shoes lighter.
* Cleopatra cost over $40 million to produce in 1963.
* Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
* 80% of women wash their hands after using the bathroom.
* 55% percent of men wash their hands after using the bathroom.
GO GO GO, your eyes can't take it anymore.
* A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
* The average person will spend approximately 2 weeks of their life kissing.
* Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps.
* Essay in French means 'to try, attempt'.
* Coffee does not help sober up a drunk person. In many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
* A tenth of the 7 million tons of rice grown in the U.S. each year goes into the making of beer.
* Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
* Salt is one of the few spices that is all taste, and no smell.
* Canada imports about 850 Russian made hockey sticks on an average day.
* Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox.
Do i have to swear or kick you out then will you listen to me, right? REST REST REST!!!
* Ancient Romans believe that birds mated on February 14th.
* The world's horse population is estimated at 75 million.
* On average, a man will only speak 2000 words over the course of a day while a woman will speak 7000 words in the same amount of time.
* New York City has the most skyscrapers than any other city in the world with 140. A skyscraper is any building that exceeds 152 metres in height.
* Jeans were named after Genoa, Italy, where the first denim cloth was made.
* Pomology is the study of fruit.
* Ants can live up to 16 years.
* Actor Andy Garcia was a Siamese twin.
* Actor Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln.
* "Good bye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
Rest has got lots of meaning. Now, TAKE A REST and i'll tell you tomorrow!
* The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
* There's a 'cemetery town' in California called Colma, its ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1.
* The average four year-old child asks over 400 questions a day.
* Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
* "Happy Birthday To You" is the most often sung song in America.
* Paedophobia is a fear of children.
* Once in a four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained an average of one patent every five days for his new inventions.
* Computer users, on average, blink seven times per minute.
* Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
* Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein at the age of 19.
You didn't take my advice, didn't you? then why am i seeing you here?
* Canada has one-third of all the fresh water in the world.
* There are more cows than people in the U.S.
* Bees are fully grown when they are born.
* People in China sometimes use firecrackers around their homes as fire alarms.
* The Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
* Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.
* Women's hearts beat faster than men.
* Bees have to fly approximately 175,000 kilometres to make one kilogram of honey.
* Tarantulas cannot spin webs
* Jaguars are scared of dogs.
Super stubborn, Dumb, why not just come back later? I'm so tired of telling you all these.
* Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
* Leonardo da Vinci invented the concept of the parachute, but his design was fatally flawed in that it did not allow air to pass through the top of the chute. Therefore, the chute would not fall straight, but would tilt to the side, lose it's air, and plummet.
* Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
* Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
* Despite his great scientific and artistic achievement, Leonardo daVinci was most proud of his ability to bend iron with his bare hands.
* All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
* Elizabeth 1st suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).
* George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
* King Tut's tomb contained FOUR coffins. The third coffin was made from 2,500 pounds of gold. And in today's market is worth approximately $13,000,000.
* While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
It's just too interesting huh? FINE suit yourself~~!!!
* Bubble gum contains rubber.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
* China produces 278,564,356,980 eggs per year.
* China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* Cranberry Jello, is the only jello flavor that comes from the real fruit, not artificial flavoring.
* Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.
* Diet Coke was only invented in 1983.
* Dunkin' Donuts serves about 112,500 doughnuts each day.
DUMB.
* 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
* A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.
* A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.
* A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.
* A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
* A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites.
* All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.
* An average of 200 million credit cards are used every day in the United States.
* As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United States.
* Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
STUBBORN.
* Mosquitoes have teeth.
* Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
* Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
* The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
* Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
* The biggest bee is as big as a hummingbird.
* Bees cry when they lack a queen bee.
* Bees cannot perceive the color red.
* When stung by a bee, remove the stinger and put a little HONEY on the wound.
Don't friend you le LAH.
* 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells while you have been reading this sentence.
* A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
* 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 woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
* Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
* By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
* During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
* From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
* In a lifetime, we replace our skin approximately 1000 times.
* You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
Almost finishing... so i guess you can rest after that...
* 7% of Americans eat McDonalds each day.
* Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.
* 96% of a cucumber is water.
* 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
* 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
* By 65 years old, Americans have watched more than nine years of television.
* In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.
* In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.
* You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
* Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.
Had enough?
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
* Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
* Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
* The youngest pope was 11 years old.
* Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
* 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.
* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
See enough?
* Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
* It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
* The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
* Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
* A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
* Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
* There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
* Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
* The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
read enough?
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
* Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
* A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
* A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
* You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
* Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
CLOSE YOUR EYES! AND, mummble this: All these interesting facts are not facts but rubbish and lies!!! You got cheated! Dumb.
