Did you know...?
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The
spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept
At least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting
from the flush
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty
years of age or older.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from
each salad served in first-class.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
- The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro,
Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order.
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- Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name
contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was
William Jefferson Clinton.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- On average people fear spiders more than death.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- No word in the English language rhymes with
"MONTH", "ORANGE" or "CHIMNEY".
- The average life span of a major league baseball is just 7 pitches.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing. SCARY!!!
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
- "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be
39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full
name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.