Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Amazing facts!

  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

  • About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? LOL :)

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

  • In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

  • About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? LOL :)

  • You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

  • An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

  • Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

  • Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

  • The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

  • A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

  • The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.

  • The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

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

  • The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

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

  • The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

  • In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.

  • Every person has a unique tongue print.

  • Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

  • Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

  • Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

  • Bubble gum contains rubber.

  • You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

  • Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

  • The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.

  • Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

  • Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

  • The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

  • Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

  • In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

  • A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

  • About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

  • It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

  • Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

  • Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

  • Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991

  • Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

  • There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

  • Most lipstick contains fish scales.

  • Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

  • Mosquitoes have teeth.

  • Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

  • Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

  • The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

  • When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

  • Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

  • 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." (big surprise, eh?)

  • In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

  • Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

  • Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)

  • "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
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