Sunday, September 17, 2006

Interesting facts you may have never known

People A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with Midnight Cowboy. Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

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

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!

Things:

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of ingredients in the sauce.

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

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

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. Before the 1950's it was made from hemp the stem and leaves of a marijuana plant. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants (trousers).

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

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

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

Bubble gum contains rubber.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.



Animals, mammals insects and such:

Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.

Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

Interesting Facts

Maybe this will spur some of you to make some changes, and maybe need to get real.

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

If man evolved from apes why do we still have apes?

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was, she said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?

If a mute kid swears does his mother wash his hands with soap?

Is there another word for synonym?

Isn't it scary that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all?

What should you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

If a parsley farmer is sued do they garnish his wages?

Would a wingless fly be called a walk?

Is a shelless turtle homeless or just naked?

Why do they put Braille on the drive through bank machines?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a work station...GO FIGURE!

If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?I believe five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead?"

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . they were cramming for their finals.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with little tiny spoons and forks, so I wonder what Chinese mothers use. Perhaps toothpicks?

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do...write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?

Never agree to plastic surgery if the doctor's office is full of portraits by icasso.

How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there?

Why not modern Latin: VENI, VEDI, VISA - I came, I saw, I shopped.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for?

STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Clones are people two.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Go ahead and take risks....just be sure that everything will turnout OK.

Strange! No one ever says "It's only a game," when their team is winning.

As I said before, I never repeat myself!

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zig-zag?

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Think "honk" if you're telepathic.

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

Whatever happened to preparations A through G?

If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?

I went for a walk last night and my kids asked me how long I'd be gone. I said, "The whole time."

So what's the speed of dark?

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dissing them anyhow?

After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting OUT of the water?

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

How come abbreviated is such a long word?

If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?

Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?

Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss??

Do fish get cramps after eating?

Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?

Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?

Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?

If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?

More interesting facts

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. that's where the phrase "Goodnight sleep tight" came from.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet. It was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WW II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measure exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at the target, it go the whole nine yards.

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. OR before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot and the yeast would die. This thumb is also thought to be where we get the "rule of
thumb"

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the General Purpose vehicle, "G.P."

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

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

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