| Posted by: Zooped, January 4th, 2010 |
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* The average lifespan of a major league baseball: seven years. * The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,”uses every letter in
the alphabet.
* A ducks quack doesn’t echo and nobody knows why. (hehe)
* Hershey Kisses are called kisses because the machine that makes them looks like
it is kissing the conveyer belt.
* The longest flight of a chicken is 13 seconds… (they probly just put the chicken on top of a huge fan blowing up)
* The first toilet that was ever seen on TV was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
* In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. (hmm…)
* No word in the english language ryhmes with purple, silver month, or orange.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
* When you sneeze, all your body functions stop, even your heart.
* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* Its impossible to lick your elbow!
* (50-70% of the people who read the last one tried to lick their elbow)
* Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches
2 to 6 years of age.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales! EWW!!
* 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!
* Porcupines float in water!
* There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
* The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
* A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface!
* A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.
* Laughter is a proven way to loose weight. (YESS!)
* Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside-down.
* Life SaversTM candy was produced by a chocolate maker, to make up for the low chocolate sales in the summer.
* One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton
* A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.
* More people are alive today, than have ever died.
* Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
* The word ‘and’ appears 46,277 times in the bible.
* Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
* There are at least two golf balls on the moon.
* A cockroach can live 9 days without its head…. eww
* An average persons hair grows a combined 55,000 inches a month.
* Only about one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
* An average person has a total of 6 lbs of skin. EW!
* You were born with 300 bones, but at adulthood you only have 206! what? how
* Bamboo can grow 3 feet in just 24 hours.
* Your thumb is the same lenght as your nose.
* Weight for weight, bone is five times stronger than steel.
* The shortest verse in the Bible is “Jesus Wept.” John 11:35.
* The oldest vegetable is a pea.
* Chickens can’t swallow while they’re upside-down
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Copper is a brown-red color, correct? This is scientific evidence to back up blonde jokes!
* A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
* Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan died before his fleet reached it’s home port. So Magellan himself never curcumnavigated the globe!
* Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
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