Monday, March 23, 2009

Know these Facts

01. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
02. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
03. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
04. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
05. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
06. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
07. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
08. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
09. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19.John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same Airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
26. Coca-Cola was originally green.
27. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
28. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
29. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
30. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
31. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
32. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
33. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
34. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
35. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
36. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
3712. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
38. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
39. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
40. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
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