Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Randome Knowledge?!

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually

clear.

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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

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If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than

left-handed people do.

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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which

they start.

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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or

it will digest itself. (YUCK!)

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The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and

down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.(who leaves

champers in their glass long enough to find out?)

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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear

pants.

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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple

and silver.

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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was

never a recorded Wendy before

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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2

killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will

instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

(Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down

so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which

stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your

thumb.(WHAT???)

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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot

Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )

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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin

Look-alike contest.

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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from Public Libraries.

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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space

because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the

other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space....)

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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!

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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred

and Wilma Flintstone.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

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The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

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The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

2 comments:

SuperTiph said...

You just wiped out half of my potential future tips of the day. Good thing you don't have the other half of that email. Then again, the breadtangle must share its knowledge, since alone we don't have enough to function as individual humans :P:P

Tigers in a Cheese Song

Lerchy said...

what ya mean e-mail???