Moths rest with their wings open and a butterfly rests with theirs closed.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first, because we read from left to right.
Water is the only substance that is found naturally on Earth in 3 forms, Liquid, Gas and Solid.
If you lived on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.
The most common letters in the English alphabet are R,S,T,L,N & E.
The only place in the United States of America where coffee is grown is Hawaii.
Apart from its flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate. It is practically non-disintergrative.
UPS the courier company was founded by 2 schoolboys with 1 bicycle and $100 dollars borrowed from a friend.
Las Vegas has 1 slot machine for every 8 of its inhabitants.
Its estimated that 1 out of 10 children in Europe, were conceived on an IKEA bed.
The Guiness Book of Records, holds the record itself for being the book most stolen from libraries.
Bruce Lee was so fast, they actually had to slow his films down so you could see the moves.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach turns red too.
70% less energy is required to recycle paper, as compared to making it from scratch.
Pumbaa from "The Lion King" film, was the first Disney character to fart in a Disney movie.
Typographical symbols like *@#& that are used to replace swear words are called GRAWLIX.
Nearly One third of New York City public school teachers, send their own children to Private school.
Every year Louis Vuitton burn all their unsold bags from a season, The reason is so that they cannot be sold at a sale price and it will keep them exclusive.
Paintball guns were originally designed to use to mark Livestock like sheep & cattle.
At the peak of its popularity, the game of Farmville had more members than the number of real farmers by 60 to 1.
The University of Victoria in Canada, offers a course in the "Science of Batman".
English sailors were referred to as 'limeys' because they used to add lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
A woman attempted to commit suicide, by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. She landed on a car, survived and later married the owner of the car.
ALMOST is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in the correct alphabetical order.
The word 'Mortgage' comes from a word in French law meaning "pledge till death".
A sentence that contains all the 26 letters of the alphabet is called a 'Pangram'
JK Rowling loosely based Hermoine Granger in the Harry Potter films on herself at the age of 11.
She even made Hermoines patronus her own favourite animal. An otter.
The words 'THE EYES' can be rearranged to make the words. 'THEY SEE'.
The terms 'White meat; and 'Dark meat' in poultry, were originated in the Victorian era, by people who were too embarrassed to say "Breast or Leg",
Japanese Universitys hold memorial services for animals who died in experiments.
Just like some people talk in their sleep, some deaf people sign in their sleep.
After the Disney film "Princess and the Frog" came out in 2009. Over 50 children were hospitalized with Salmonella from kissing frogs.
The "Heart Attack Grill" in Las Vegas is a restaurant and it offers free food for anyone over 350lb or 25 stone.
New York Central Park is so big, its almost twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
Saturday, 5 October 2013
More true but useless facts.
The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 ft wide.
William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day. April 23rd.
The Capitol buildings in Washington DC have 365 steps. One for every day of the year.
Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie and Ken, named them after her children.
Leonardo de Vinci discovered you can age trees by the rings on the trunk.
The sentence "Are you as bored as I am", can be read backwards and still mean the same thing.
Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dali.
Honey is the only food that contains all the substances necessary to sustain life. Including Enzymes, Vitamins, Minerals and water.
A single blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Australia is the only continent without an active volcano,,
Pandas spend up to 16 hours a day eating.
Shaking hands exchanges more germs than kissing.
'Yahoo' was originally going to be called. "Jerry and Davids Guide to the World Wide Web."
Amazon sell more E-books than paper books.
The Gmail logo was designed the night before the launch.
In Finland, the cost of a speeding ticket is determined by the drivers annual income.
Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten or ignored.
Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.
The literacy rate in Japan is almost 100%
Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant in New Jersey that has no prices. You only pay if you can afford, and give an amount your happy with, If you cannot afford anything, then you can volunteer to help out in return for the food.
When he was cold and struggling to keep warm. Pablo Picasso used to keep warm by burning his paintings.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined,
A cats jaw can only move up and down, It doesn't have any lateral, or side to side motion like dogs and humans.
The water of Antarctica is so cold, nothing will rot there.
Abraham Lincoln was a licenced bartender.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 they save.
The winter of 1932 was so cold in the US, that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
It takes approx. 13 hours to build a Toyota, and about 6 months to build a Rolls Royce.
The average human can live for about a month without food, but only 1 week without water.
The can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can.
There are around 200 dead bodies on Mt Everest.
The record for the most babies born to one woman was 69. She lived between 1707 - 1782. In Russia. She had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of Triplets and 4 sets of Quads. 67 of them survived infancy. Assuming each one had 2 offspring themselves and each of them had 2 each. This woman could have over 70,000 descendants,
William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day. April 23rd.
The Capitol buildings in Washington DC have 365 steps. One for every day of the year.
Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie and Ken, named them after her children.
Leonardo de Vinci discovered you can age trees by the rings on the trunk.
The sentence "Are you as bored as I am", can be read backwards and still mean the same thing.
Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dali.
Honey is the only food that contains all the substances necessary to sustain life. Including Enzymes, Vitamins, Minerals and water.
A single blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Australia is the only continent without an active volcano,,
Pandas spend up to 16 hours a day eating.
Shaking hands exchanges more germs than kissing.
'Yahoo' was originally going to be called. "Jerry and Davids Guide to the World Wide Web."
Amazon sell more E-books than paper books.
The Gmail logo was designed the night before the launch.
In Finland, the cost of a speeding ticket is determined by the drivers annual income.
Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten or ignored.
Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.
The literacy rate in Japan is almost 100%
Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant in New Jersey that has no prices. You only pay if you can afford, and give an amount your happy with, If you cannot afford anything, then you can volunteer to help out in return for the food.
When he was cold and struggling to keep warm. Pablo Picasso used to keep warm by burning his paintings.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined,
A cats jaw can only move up and down, It doesn't have any lateral, or side to side motion like dogs and humans.
The water of Antarctica is so cold, nothing will rot there.
Abraham Lincoln was a licenced bartender.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 they save.
The winter of 1932 was so cold in the US, that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
It takes approx. 13 hours to build a Toyota, and about 6 months to build a Rolls Royce.
The average human can live for about a month without food, but only 1 week without water.
The can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can.
There are around 200 dead bodies on Mt Everest.
The record for the most babies born to one woman was 69. She lived between 1707 - 1782. In Russia. She had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of Triplets and 4 sets of Quads. 67 of them survived infancy. Assuming each one had 2 offspring themselves and each of them had 2 each. This woman could have over 70,000 descendants,
Friday, 27 September 2013
A few new ones.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
People don't sneeze when they are asleep, as the nerves involved in sneezing are also resting.
A bat is the only mammal that can fly.
1oz of milk chocolate has only a small amount more caffeine then the amount found in a cup of De-caffeinated coffee.. White chocolate has no caffeine.
Chocolate can kill dogs. I affects their hearts and nervous system.
Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea inlets and they are all joined by 400 bridges. It is sinking slowly into the water.
Mt Everest rises a few millimetres every year.
In Disney's Fantasia. The Scorcerer to whom Mickey was apprentice was named YENSID. This is DISNEY backward.
Shakespeare's father was a lace maker.
On the stone temples of Madura in India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
An ants sense of smell is stronger than a dogs.
The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.
The average brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10 watt light bulb.
Slugs have 4 noses.
People don't sneeze when they are asleep, as the nerves involved in sneezing are also resting.
A bat is the only mammal that can fly.
1oz of milk chocolate has only a small amount more caffeine then the amount found in a cup of De-caffeinated coffee.. White chocolate has no caffeine.
Chocolate can kill dogs. I affects their hearts and nervous system.
Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea inlets and they are all joined by 400 bridges. It is sinking slowly into the water.
Mt Everest rises a few millimetres every year.
In Disney's Fantasia. The Scorcerer to whom Mickey was apprentice was named YENSID. This is DISNEY backward.
Shakespeare's father was a lace maker.
On the stone temples of Madura in India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
An ants sense of smell is stronger than a dogs.
The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.
The average brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10 watt light bulb.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Yup....even more.
The Lone Rangers mask, was made from the vest of his Dead brother.
Some unwrapped mummies had a total bandage length of about 1.5 miles.
Although its only 2% of our body weight, the brain uses 20% of all the oxygen we breathe, 20% of all the calories we consume and 15% of all our blood supply.
At the South pole. every direction you look is North.
By the time you are 70, you will have lost over half of your taste buds.
A mosquito can beat its wings up to 600 times per second, but only travels at 1 mph.
97% of all the Earths water supply is in the oceans.
The word 'Acre' literally means, "the amount of land plowable in one day".
The scientific name for Goosebumps is "Horripilations"
The human body has 45 miles of nerves, enough blood vessels to circle the equator 6 times and a mile of intestine.
The word "MAYDAY" comes from the French "Maidez", which means 'Help me'
President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.
The human brain feels no pain. It is the surrounding membrane that is laced with nerves that transmits pain sensations to the brain.
There are more chickens in the world, than people.
Every Monarch of England since 1066 and William the Conqueror have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.
The SPAM luncheon meat trademark is registered in 93 countries.
The maximum achieveable score possible in a game of PacMan is 3,333,360 points.
It cost 7 million Dollars to build the Titanic, and 200 million dollars to make a film about it.
X-rays have proved that there are 3 other versions of the Mona Lisa under the one on show.
There are a possible 2 million different combinations of sandwiches can be made from a Subway menu.
The UK eats more tins of Baked Beans, than the rest of the world combined..
God is the only character in 'The Simpsons' to have 5 fingers on each hand.
Althaiophobia is a fear of Marshmallows.
Mosquito repellants, don't repel they mask your odour,so the mosquito doesn't realise your there.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill 2 swimming pools.
The current flag of America, The Stars and Stripes, was designed by a 17 year old for a school project. He only got a B-.
Facebook is Blue, mainly because its founder Mark Zuckerberg suffers from Red/Green colour blindness.
The voice behind 'Mickey Mouse' is married in real life to the voice of 'Minnie Mouse' who is Russi Taylor.
The Harry Potter franchise made more money than the gross domestic product of Bolivia.
There is no word for "yesterday" in Inuit.
The letter "J" is the only letter not in the Periodic Table.
Although Jones is the most common surname in Wales.. There is no "J" in the Welsh alphabet.
The Phillippine Island of LUZON has a lake, this lake contains an island, this island contains a lake and that lake also contains an island.
According to the NASA astronauts, the moon smells of spent gunpowder.
The forest of the Canadian Lake District is so dense, during winter, the snow stays on the tree tops and the forest floor is bare.
Some unwrapped mummies had a total bandage length of about 1.5 miles.
Although its only 2% of our body weight, the brain uses 20% of all the oxygen we breathe, 20% of all the calories we consume and 15% of all our blood supply.
At the South pole. every direction you look is North.
By the time you are 70, you will have lost over half of your taste buds.
A mosquito can beat its wings up to 600 times per second, but only travels at 1 mph.
97% of all the Earths water supply is in the oceans.
The word 'Acre' literally means, "the amount of land plowable in one day".
The scientific name for Goosebumps is "Horripilations"
The human body has 45 miles of nerves, enough blood vessels to circle the equator 6 times and a mile of intestine.
The word "MAYDAY" comes from the French "Maidez", which means 'Help me'
President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.
The human brain feels no pain. It is the surrounding membrane that is laced with nerves that transmits pain sensations to the brain.
There are more chickens in the world, than people.
Every Monarch of England since 1066 and William the Conqueror have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.
The SPAM luncheon meat trademark is registered in 93 countries.
The maximum achieveable score possible in a game of PacMan is 3,333,360 points.
It cost 7 million Dollars to build the Titanic, and 200 million dollars to make a film about it.
X-rays have proved that there are 3 other versions of the Mona Lisa under the one on show.
There are a possible 2 million different combinations of sandwiches can be made from a Subway menu.
The UK eats more tins of Baked Beans, than the rest of the world combined..
God is the only character in 'The Simpsons' to have 5 fingers on each hand.
Althaiophobia is a fear of Marshmallows.
Mosquito repellants, don't repel they mask your odour,so the mosquito doesn't realise your there.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill 2 swimming pools.
The current flag of America, The Stars and Stripes, was designed by a 17 year old for a school project. He only got a B-.
Facebook is Blue, mainly because its founder Mark Zuckerberg suffers from Red/Green colour blindness.
The voice behind 'Mickey Mouse' is married in real life to the voice of 'Minnie Mouse' who is Russi Taylor.
The Harry Potter franchise made more money than the gross domestic product of Bolivia.
There is no word for "yesterday" in Inuit.
The letter "J" is the only letter not in the Periodic Table.
Although Jones is the most common surname in Wales.. There is no "J" in the Welsh alphabet.
The Phillippine Island of LUZON has a lake, this lake contains an island, this island contains a lake and that lake also contains an island.
According to the NASA astronauts, the moon smells of spent gunpowder.
The forest of the Canadian Lake District is so dense, during winter, the snow stays on the tree tops and the forest floor is bare.
They keep on coming...
In the 1500's in England, they began to run out of places to bury people, so started to dig up coffins to re-use them. They often found scratch marks on the lids, and realised that some people had been buried alive.
To prevent this, they started to tie a piece of twine around the wrist of the person before they went into the coffin. This was tied to a bell hanging from a tree in the graveyard. They then paid someone to sit in the graveyard all night to listen out for the bell..
This is where we get the phrase "on the graveyard shift" from and also, "Saved by the bell".
On average, more people are scared of spiders, than are afraid of dying.
In the 1500's, Bread was divided amongst the household. The Lower staff got the burnt bottoms of the loaves, The higher staff got the middle bit and the Family and guests got the Top, Hence "Upper Crust"
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
Tarzan couldn't have swung on jungle vines as they are attatched to the ground.
When a whale wants to change its line of vision, it has to turn its whole body around, as its eyes are fixed.
Inflammable is NOT the opposite of Flammable. In fact they both mean the same thing. "Easily set on fire" Non-flammable, means NOT easily burned. The prefix 'in' made many people confused, so warning labels were switched to just read the word 'Flammable' instead.
7% of the entire barley crop in Ireland, goes into the production of Guiness.
The average human body contains enough lead to make 900 pencils.
The # hashtag is called an 'Octothorpe'.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
In Mel Brooks film "Silent Movie", the only person who had a speaking part was the mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Grapes explode when you put them in a microwave.
There is a 7 letter word in English that contains 9 other words without rearranging any of the letters.. 'THEREIN'. "the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about about Mia Farrows sister Prudence, when she wouldn't come out to play with Mia and the Beatles during a religious retreat in India.
Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon's mothers maiden name was 'Moon'
SOS, doesn't actually mean anything. It was chosen as 2 letters than anyone could remember and use it to key it in Morse Code. S = dot-dot-dot. O = dash-dash-dash.
"Strengths is the longest word in English with only 1 vowel.
The Busby worn by the Queens Guards at Buckingham palace are made from Canadian Bearskin.
They were originally worn by Napoleons Imperial Guards to make them look taller. Recently animal lovers demanded a switch to synthetic fur, but a spokesman said, In the rain, the guards would look as if they were having a bad hair day as the natural fur is waterproof.
The population density of Alaska is 1 person per sq mile.
Picasso's full name is "Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remidios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Phew.
Richard Nixon is the only President to have his name engraved on a plaque and left on the moon.
Pope John Paul II once wrote a play that premiered at a theatre in London.
The middle initial of US President Harry S Truman doesn't stand for anything. Both Grandfathers names began with 'S' and Harrys parents didn't want to upset either side.
The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to its overall length in feet.
Starboard on a ship, comes from the Viking word for the paddles on the right hand side of the boat, used to steer. They were called "Steorbords"
The cells which make up the antlers on a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
The oldest business in the world is the Cymbal company "Zildijan". It was founded in 1623 in Constantinople.
From outer space, the brightest place visible is Las Vegas in Nevada.
Ignore Popeye., Spinach doesn't have any more iron than any other green veg. In the 1950's a food analyst made an error while calculating the value and his decimal point was in the wrong place. This made the spinach seem to have 10 times more iron than it actually did.
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, The hardest tongue twister to say is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheeps sick."
In 1999 Lambeth council in London owed £850 million. This was more than the national debt of Guatemala.
It took Leo Tolstoy 6 years to write "War and Peace"
Mr Ed. The talking horse was played by a horse called "Bamboo Harvester"
It would take 100 cups of coffee, consumed within 4 hours to kill the average person through a caffeine overdose.
Apples were not likely to have grown in the Garden of Eden. Actually, Eve was more likely to have been guilty of eating an Apricot.
In Czechoslovakia, there is an ancient church decorated with the bones of 10,000 humans.
Some people in America consider the $1 bill to be unlucky. There are so many 13's on it. 13 stars, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.
The word "Listen", contains the same letters as "Silent"
Spam is so resistant to spoiling, that as long as the tin is sealed, it will last for eternity.
The name LEGO comes from the Danish LEg GOdt, which means 'play well'
To prevent this, they started to tie a piece of twine around the wrist of the person before they went into the coffin. This was tied to a bell hanging from a tree in the graveyard. They then paid someone to sit in the graveyard all night to listen out for the bell..
This is where we get the phrase "on the graveyard shift" from and also, "Saved by the bell".
On average, more people are scared of spiders, than are afraid of dying.
In the 1500's, Bread was divided amongst the household. The Lower staff got the burnt bottoms of the loaves, The higher staff got the middle bit and the Family and guests got the Top, Hence "Upper Crust"
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
Tarzan couldn't have swung on jungle vines as they are attatched to the ground.
When a whale wants to change its line of vision, it has to turn its whole body around, as its eyes are fixed.
Inflammable is NOT the opposite of Flammable. In fact they both mean the same thing. "Easily set on fire" Non-flammable, means NOT easily burned. The prefix 'in' made many people confused, so warning labels were switched to just read the word 'Flammable' instead.
7% of the entire barley crop in Ireland, goes into the production of Guiness.
The average human body contains enough lead to make 900 pencils.
The # hashtag is called an 'Octothorpe'.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
In Mel Brooks film "Silent Movie", the only person who had a speaking part was the mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Grapes explode when you put them in a microwave.
There is a 7 letter word in English that contains 9 other words without rearranging any of the letters.. 'THEREIN'. "the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about about Mia Farrows sister Prudence, when she wouldn't come out to play with Mia and the Beatles during a religious retreat in India.
Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon's mothers maiden name was 'Moon'
SOS, doesn't actually mean anything. It was chosen as 2 letters than anyone could remember and use it to key it in Morse Code. S = dot-dot-dot. O = dash-dash-dash.
"Strengths is the longest word in English with only 1 vowel.
The Busby worn by the Queens Guards at Buckingham palace are made from Canadian Bearskin.
They were originally worn by Napoleons Imperial Guards to make them look taller. Recently animal lovers demanded a switch to synthetic fur, but a spokesman said, In the rain, the guards would look as if they were having a bad hair day as the natural fur is waterproof.
The population density of Alaska is 1 person per sq mile.
Picasso's full name is "Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remidios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Phew.
Richard Nixon is the only President to have his name engraved on a plaque and left on the moon.
Pope John Paul II once wrote a play that premiered at a theatre in London.
The middle initial of US President Harry S Truman doesn't stand for anything. Both Grandfathers names began with 'S' and Harrys parents didn't want to upset either side.
The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to its overall length in feet.
Starboard on a ship, comes from the Viking word for the paddles on the right hand side of the boat, used to steer. They were called "Steorbords"
The cells which make up the antlers on a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
The oldest business in the world is the Cymbal company "Zildijan". It was founded in 1623 in Constantinople.
From outer space, the brightest place visible is Las Vegas in Nevada.
Ignore Popeye., Spinach doesn't have any more iron than any other green veg. In the 1950's a food analyst made an error while calculating the value and his decimal point was in the wrong place. This made the spinach seem to have 10 times more iron than it actually did.
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, The hardest tongue twister to say is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheeps sick."
In 1999 Lambeth council in London owed £850 million. This was more than the national debt of Guatemala.
It took Leo Tolstoy 6 years to write "War and Peace"
Mr Ed. The talking horse was played by a horse called "Bamboo Harvester"
It would take 100 cups of coffee, consumed within 4 hours to kill the average person through a caffeine overdose.
Apples were not likely to have grown in the Garden of Eden. Actually, Eve was more likely to have been guilty of eating an Apricot.
In Czechoslovakia, there is an ancient church decorated with the bones of 10,000 humans.
Some people in America consider the $1 bill to be unlucky. There are so many 13's on it. 13 stars, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.
The word "Listen", contains the same letters as "Silent"
Spam is so resistant to spoiling, that as long as the tin is sealed, it will last for eternity.
The name LEGO comes from the Danish LEg GOdt, which means 'play well'
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Just a few to titilate you..
The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine is 889 to 1.
The Amazon river flows 12 times that of the Mississippi and the Amazon carries as much water in a single day as flows down the river Thames in London in 1 year.
A 'hairsbreath' is actually 1/48th of an inch.
The oldest city in Britain is Ripon, which received its original charter in 886.
If you add all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively i.e.(1+2+3+4+5+6) ect. The total would be 5050
When two or more words are combined to make a new word eg, MOTOR & HOTEL = MOTEL, or BREAKFAST & LUNCH = BRUNCH, the new word is called a Portmanteau.
There is only one word in the English language with only 1 vowel that appears 6 times. INDIVISIBILITY.
FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS are the only 2 words that contain all the 5 vowels in the correct order..
Underground is the only word that begins and ends with UND.
Dreamt is the only word that ends in MT.
There are only 4 words in the English language that end in 'dous' Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, and Hazardous.
The longest non technical word in the English language is ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTERIANISM.
Canada is a Native American Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Until 1965, driving was done in Sweden on the Left hand side of the road. They changed it to the Right hand side on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic was stopped and people changed lanes. It was decided to do it at this time, so that people wouldn't get out of bed in a morning and in a sleepy state, forget that this was "the changeover day".
Cinderella's slipper was originally supposed to be FUR. It was changed to GLASS in the 1600 by a translator.
If you are in a completely sealed room, you will die from carbon dioxide poisioning, before you died from lack of Oxygen.
Frogs can be frozen solid and thawed out and continue to live.
Since 1896, the beginning of the Modern Olympics, Only Greece and Australia have never missed a games. Great Britain competed in the 1980 games, but under the Olympic flag as GB were boycotting the games.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike Sponsorship, than all the Nike Factory workers in Malaysia combined.
A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The letters 'UGH' can be pronounced 9 different ways. The following sentence contains them all.
"A rough-coated, tough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The word Pound is abbreviated to lb after the constellation 'libra', because it means pound in Latin.
The abbreviation for for British Pound symbol £ is from the same source. It is an L for 'libra' and a stroke through it to signify its an abbreviation.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib, but if you surpress a sneeze, you could rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and potentially kill yourself.
There are on average 178 seeds on a Big Mac bun.
10% of Russia's income comes from Vodka.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy on average, than all the worlds nuclear weopons combined.
There are 336 dimples on every golf ball.
The Amazon river flows 12 times that of the Mississippi and the Amazon carries as much water in a single day as flows down the river Thames in London in 1 year.
A 'hairsbreath' is actually 1/48th of an inch.
The oldest city in Britain is Ripon, which received its original charter in 886.
If you add all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively i.e.(1+2+3+4+5+6) ect. The total would be 5050
When two or more words are combined to make a new word eg, MOTOR & HOTEL = MOTEL, or BREAKFAST & LUNCH = BRUNCH, the new word is called a Portmanteau.
There is only one word in the English language with only 1 vowel that appears 6 times. INDIVISIBILITY.
FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS are the only 2 words that contain all the 5 vowels in the correct order..
Underground is the only word that begins and ends with UND.
Dreamt is the only word that ends in MT.
There are only 4 words in the English language that end in 'dous' Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, and Hazardous.
The longest non technical word in the English language is ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTERIANISM.
Canada is a Native American Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Until 1965, driving was done in Sweden on the Left hand side of the road. They changed it to the Right hand side on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic was stopped and people changed lanes. It was decided to do it at this time, so that people wouldn't get out of bed in a morning and in a sleepy state, forget that this was "the changeover day".
Cinderella's slipper was originally supposed to be FUR. It was changed to GLASS in the 1600 by a translator.
If you are in a completely sealed room, you will die from carbon dioxide poisioning, before you died from lack of Oxygen.
Frogs can be frozen solid and thawed out and continue to live.
Since 1896, the beginning of the Modern Olympics, Only Greece and Australia have never missed a games. Great Britain competed in the 1980 games, but under the Olympic flag as GB were boycotting the games.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike Sponsorship, than all the Nike Factory workers in Malaysia combined.
A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The letters 'UGH' can be pronounced 9 different ways. The following sentence contains them all.
"A rough-coated, tough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The word Pound is abbreviated to lb after the constellation 'libra', because it means pound in Latin.
The abbreviation for for British Pound symbol £ is from the same source. It is an L for 'libra' and a stroke through it to signify its an abbreviation.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib, but if you surpress a sneeze, you could rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and potentially kill yourself.
There are on average 178 seeds on a Big Mac bun.
10% of Russia's income comes from Vodka.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy on average, than all the worlds nuclear weopons combined.
There are 336 dimples on every golf ball.
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
A little extra.
The Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is 3 times the size of Everest.
The amount of computer memory needed to run Word Perfect for WIN95, was 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
2000lb of space dust and debris fall on Earth every day.
If done perfectly, a Rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
There are 1,575 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
The noise a whip makes when you crack it is actually a small sonic boom, since you break the sound barrier.
Hot water is heavier than cold water.
Half of all Americans still live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
If you spelled out all the numbers, you would get to One Thousand before you came across the letter 'A'.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was 9. His parents thought he was retarded.
Thomas Edison who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.
You can sail all the way around the world at 60 deg south.
A praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named as an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'
A foetus develops fingerprints at 18 weeks.
A fear of vegetables is Lachanophobia.
Honolulu is the only place in the US that has a royal palace.
More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby.
Baby Robins eat about 14ft of worms every day.
Most of the dust in your house is dead skin.
Of all the words in the English language, the word SET has the most definitions.
The most used letter in the English Alphabet is 'E' and the least used is 'Q'
The name for the Wizard of Oz, got its title when the creator Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
If you were to upturn the Millenium Dome in London. It would hold 3.8 billion pints of liquid to fill it up.
The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine are 889 to 1.
The amount of computer memory needed to run Word Perfect for WIN95, was 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
2000lb of space dust and debris fall on Earth every day.
If done perfectly, a Rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
There are 1,575 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
The noise a whip makes when you crack it is actually a small sonic boom, since you break the sound barrier.
Hot water is heavier than cold water.
Half of all Americans still live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
If you spelled out all the numbers, you would get to One Thousand before you came across the letter 'A'.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was 9. His parents thought he was retarded.
Thomas Edison who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.
You can sail all the way around the world at 60 deg south.
A praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named as an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'
A foetus develops fingerprints at 18 weeks.
A fear of vegetables is Lachanophobia.
Honolulu is the only place in the US that has a royal palace.
More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby.
Baby Robins eat about 14ft of worms every day.
Most of the dust in your house is dead skin.
Of all the words in the English language, the word SET has the most definitions.
The most used letter in the English Alphabet is 'E' and the least used is 'Q'
The name for the Wizard of Oz, got its title when the creator Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
If you were to upturn the Millenium Dome in London. It would hold 3.8 billion pints of liquid to fill it up.
The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine are 889 to 1.
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