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LOL at some of them
LOL at some of them
Posted: 17:04 May 11 2002
Did you know ....
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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.
Polar bears are left handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Honey, I'm home.. what the...)
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
Laughter is a proven way to loose weight.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment in your skin orange. (Carotene is the same substance that makes leaves turn orange in the fall)
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist! (see I knew they were Evil)
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Julio Inglesias was originally a goal keeper for Real Madrid until his doctor suggested playing the guitar to excercise his fingers.
Elvis Costello (Deckland McMannis) used to be a computer programmer before he was a pop star.
Sean Connery started out in life as a milkman on a horse-drawn float.
There ya go some totaly useless facts for you , although some kinda spooky ones too
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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.
Polar bears are left handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Honey, I'm home.. what the...)
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
Laughter is a proven way to loose weight.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment in your skin orange. (Carotene is the same substance that makes leaves turn orange in the fall)
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist! (see I knew they were Evil)
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Julio Inglesias was originally a goal keeper for Real Madrid until his doctor suggested playing the guitar to excercise his fingers.
Elvis Costello (Deckland McMannis) used to be a computer programmer before he was a pop star.
Sean Connery started out in life as a milkman on a horse-drawn float.
There ya go some totaly useless facts for you , although some kinda spooky ones too
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