Monday, December 7, 2009

The big fact theory

The first blog post of my fact blog will get you involved with some weird, useful and not so useful facts which are one of my favourite form of information(fun, useful, short and enjoyable).
Here are a couple of them for a start. (I would apreciate everyone who has a suggestion about putting some facts in this blog to feel free to email me on rkirov007@gmail.com because the goal is to collect as many facts as possible. Also i will try to update the blog as frequently as possible.

  • Butterflies taste with their feet.
  • A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
  • In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
  • On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
  • On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
  • Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
  • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  • Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". (?)
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
    never stop growing.
  • All polar bears are left handed.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
    including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
    letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  • 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.
  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
I hope you enjoyed it ;)