anyone know an intresting fact??
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Crazy Kitten
17 years agoHey i know some intersting facts:
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
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.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
The pancreas produces Insulin.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
World Tourist day is observed on September 27.
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
February is Black History Month.
Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.
The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees. -
Crazy Kitten
17 years agoHere are some more:
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
There are more chickens in the world than people
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
A prune is a dried plumb.
Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused.
Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience".
Saturday was named for the planet saturn.
The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The best beaches for surfing face west.
Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The first American dictionary was writen by Noah Webster.
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string. After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.
The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Frogs do not drink water.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
It's impossible to lick your elbow.
It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid!
The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight.
Babies have no kneecaps when they are born.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
A snail can sleep for three years.
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse.
Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday.
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek. -
Crazy Kitten
17 years agoYeah they are.
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claire
17 years agoSorry if these are already there, but i dont have it in im me 2 read ALL of those facts.
** if you chew gum while peeling onions, you won't cry
**it is very possible to apply mascara with your mouth closed, including both you lips and jaw. trust me, I do it every a. m .
**the first ballpoint pens were sold in New York in 1945 for $12 (random enough 4 u? lol)
