-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
-Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and
ears never stop growing.
-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
-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.
-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
-The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
-When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
-Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
-A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a
carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions.
After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an
axe leaving her mentally retarded
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang
yourself."
-The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
-"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three
consecutive double letters.
-Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left
handed people do.
-The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the english language.
-If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction
-China has more English speakers than the United States.
-Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
-Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood
vessels.
-An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
-Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in
our bodies.
-Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average
man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in
his lifetime.
-According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
-The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotam
pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe
-If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at
approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
-Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive
proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from
space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced
to a microwave in the building.
-Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four
hundred questions a day.
-The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock
three times each morning.
-The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the
combined wealth of the fourty-eight poorest nations.
-The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
2 comments:
cool. mona lisa has no eye brows. never noticed them missing. cool facts hon. missing you still. will visit once i finish these nights ia. you coming to kateebah?
yep I sure am - will be late though. Have a friend getting married in manchester (that sat)! might come up on thursday - whats the chances of seeing you guys on thurs?!
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