130 facts that you might not know ...by chermaine

1 ) It is impossible to lick your elbow.

2 ) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

3 ) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

4 ) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

5 ) The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69! The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly 4 sets of quadruplets. Even in the days before IVF!

6 ) Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

7 ) Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

8 ) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

9 ) Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.

10 ) Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

11 ) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

12 ) 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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

13 ) Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

14 ) The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

15 ) 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie.

16 ) To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

17 ) In Texas, a recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. Only in Texas....

18 ) "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

19 ) The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

20 ) 1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else.

21 ) In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

22 ) Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.

23 ) In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar

24 ) A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

25 ) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

26 ) Goats and octopus' eyes have rectangular pupils.

27 ) Cat urine glows under a blacklight.

28 ) Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

29 ) It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

30 ) A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

31 ) A shrimp's heart is in its head.

32 ) A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death

33 ) Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.

34 ) The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people !

35 ) Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

36 ) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

37 ) A snail can sleep for three years.

38 ) The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

39 ) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

40 ) Starfish have no brains.

41 ) A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

42 ) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

43 ) It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged. Try it!

44 ) If someone places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

45 ) Chickens can't burp.

46 ) Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

47 ) By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

48 ) Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

49 ) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

50 ) The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

51 ) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

52 ) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.

53 ) Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

54 ) If Barbie dolls are real :


Height: 7ft 2 inches (average woman: 5ft 4in)
Neck: Twice the size of a normal human female which would make it very unable to support the weight of her head.
Boobs: 39 inches (or approximately an FF cup: average woman 36B)
Waist: 18 inches (which is only possible if you remove 2 ribs and carry both kidneys around in a bag)
Hips: 33 inches
Shoe Size: 5
Also KEN AND BARBIE are brother and sister!

55 ) Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of 'Snow'

56 ) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

57 ) TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

58 ) On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.

59 ) The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.

60 ) Armadillos are crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

61 ) When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air.

62 ) Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'

63 ) An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

64 ) If you removed the stomach, the spleen, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area, the human body would still be able to survive.

65 ) On average,100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

66 ) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

67 ) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

68 ) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

69 ) Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

70 ) Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

71 ) All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.

72 ) The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants.

73 ) Coca-Cola was originally contain cocaine.

74 ) 13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese

75 ) No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

76 ) The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.

77 ) Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

78 ) Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it

79 ) Earthworms have five hearts

80 ) As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates ( haha so yeng , you are ONE OF THEM !!! ) XD

81 ) Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

82 ) Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.

83 ) Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.

84 ) Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

85 ) For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality.

86 ) Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life

87 ) Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.

88 ) Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

89 ) Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.

90 ) Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

100 ) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

101 ) Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

102 ) Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

103 ) A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

104 ) Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

105 ) Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

106 ) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

107 ) The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.

108 ) Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

109 ) Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

110 ) The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

111 ) Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

112 ) The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

113 ) Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.

114 ) The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

115 ) It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.

116 ) The average person can live 11 days without water.

117 ) Coca-Cola was originally green.

118 ) There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

119 ) City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.

120 ) The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

121 ) First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."

122 ) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there

123 ) There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

124 ) The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

125 ) More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

126 ) The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

127 ) "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed

128 ) In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

129 ) Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

130 ) A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

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