(12 actualy but who cares ;))
While they’re not a living part of your body, most people spend a good amount of time caring for
their hair and nails. The next time you’re heading in for a haircut or manicure, think of these
facts.
1. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. If you’ve ever had a
covering of stubble on your face as you’re clocking out at 5 o’clock you’re probably
pretty familiar with this. In fact, if the average man never shaved his beard it would grow
to over 30 feet during his lifetime, longer than a killer whale.
3. Every day the average person loses 60-100
strands of hair. Unless you’re already
bald, chances are good that you’re shedding pretty heavily on a daily basis. Your hair loss
will vary in accordance with the season, pregnancy, illness, diet and age.
4. Women’s hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair. While it might sound strange,
it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that men’s hair should be coarser than that of
women. Hair diameter also varies on average between races, making hair plugs on some
men look especially obvious.
5. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy
bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of
Rapunzel much more plausible.
6. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of
your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail
growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the
fastest and shortest the slowest.
7. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. Humans are
not quite the naked apes that we’re made out to be. We have lots of hair, but on most of
us it’s not obvious as a majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.
8. Blondes have more hair. They’re said to have more fun, and they definitely have more
hair. Hair color determines how dense the hair on your head is. The average human has
100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a
person’s lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles while people with black hair tend to
have about 110,000 follicles. Those with brown hair fit the average with 100,000 follicles
and redheads have the least dense hair, with about 86,000 follicles.
9. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. If you notice that you’re
trimming your fingernails much more frequently than your toenails you’re not just
imagining it. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the
fastest. On average, nails on both the toes and fingers grow about onetenth
of an inch
each month.
10. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. While you quite a few hairs
each day, your hairs actually have a pretty long life providing they aren’t subject to any
trauma. Your hairs will likely get to see several different haircuts, styles, and even
possibly decades before they fall out on their own.
11. You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone. You lose
hundreds of hairs a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more before you or anyone else will
notice. Half of the hairs on your pretty little head will have to disappear before your
impending baldness will become obvious to all those around you.
12. Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from it’s flammability, human hair
decays at such a slow rate that it is practically nondisintegrative.
If you’ve ever
wondered how your how clogs up your pipes so quick consider this: hair cannot be
destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to
many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.
credit: Christina Laun
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
10 Amazing fatcts about your ... internal organs!
Though we may not give them much thought unless they’re bothering us, our internal organs are
what allow us to go on eating, breathing and walking around. Here are some things to consider
the next time you hear your stomach growl.
credit: Christina Laun
what allow us to go on eating, breathing and walking around. Here are some things to consider
the next time you hear your stomach growl.
1. The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the smaller of the
two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is
tall. If it weren’t looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn’t fit inside the abdominal
cavity.
2. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. No wonder you can
feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently
takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick
walls of the ventricles which push blood to the body.
3. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. While you
certainly shouldn’t test the fortitude of your stomach by eating a razor blade or any other
metal object for that matter, the acids that digest the food you eat aren’t to be taken lightly. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving
the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.
4. The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in
perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your
blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.
5. You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus like
cells lining the
walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive acids in your
stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced. Those with ulcers know how painful it can
be when stomach acid takes its toll on the lining of your stomach.
6. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. In order to more
efficiently oxygenate the blood, the lungs are filled with thousands of branching bronchi
and tiny, grape like
alveoli. These are filled with microscopic capillaries which oxygen
and carbon dioxide. The large amount of surface area makes it easier for this exchange to
take place, and makes sure you stay properly oxygenated at all times.
7. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.The main reason for this is simply that on
average women tend to be smaller than men and have less mass to pump blood to. But
women’s and men’s hearts can actually act quite differently, especially when
experiencing trauma like a heart attack, and many treatments that work for men must be
adjusted or changed entirely to work for women.
8. Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. You may not think much
about your liver except after a long night of drinking, but the liver is one of the body’s
hardest working, largest and busiest organs. Some of the functions your liver performs
are: production of bile, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, and
detoxification.
9. The aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose. The average adult heart is about the
size of two fists, making the size of the aorta quite impressive. The artery needs to be so
large as it is the main supplier of rich, oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.
10. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. For most
people, if they were asked to draw a picture of what the lungs look like they would draw
both looking roughly the same size. While the lungs are fairly similar in size, the human
heart, though located fairly centrally, is tilted slightly to the left making it take up more
room on that side of the body and crowding out that poor left lung.
11. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. The human body
may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the
spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and
virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the
missing organs wouldn’t kill you.
12. The adrenal glands change size throughout life. The adrenal glands, lying right above
the kidneys, are responsible for releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. In
the seventh month of a fetus’ development, the glands are roughly the same size as the
kidneys. At birth, the glands have shrunk slightly and will continue to do so throughout
life. In fact, by the time a person reaches old age, the glands are so small they can hardly
be seen.
two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is
tall. If it weren’t looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn’t fit inside the abdominal
cavity.
2. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. No wonder you can
feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently
takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick
walls of the ventricles which push blood to the body.
3. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. While you
certainly shouldn’t test the fortitude of your stomach by eating a razor blade or any other
metal object for that matter, the acids that digest the food you eat aren’t to be taken lightly. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving
the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.
4. The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in
perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your
blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.
5. You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus like
cells lining the
walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive acids in your
stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced. Those with ulcers know how painful it can
be when stomach acid takes its toll on the lining of your stomach.
6. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. In order to more
efficiently oxygenate the blood, the lungs are filled with thousands of branching bronchi
and tiny, grape like
alveoli. These are filled with microscopic capillaries which oxygen
and carbon dioxide. The large amount of surface area makes it easier for this exchange to
take place, and makes sure you stay properly oxygenated at all times.
7. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.The main reason for this is simply that on
average women tend to be smaller than men and have less mass to pump blood to. But
women’s and men’s hearts can actually act quite differently, especially when
experiencing trauma like a heart attack, and many treatments that work for men must be
adjusted or changed entirely to work for women.
8. Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. You may not think much
about your liver except after a long night of drinking, but the liver is one of the body’s
hardest working, largest and busiest organs. Some of the functions your liver performs
are: production of bile, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, and
detoxification.
9. The aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose. The average adult heart is about the
size of two fists, making the size of the aorta quite impressive. The artery needs to be so
large as it is the main supplier of rich, oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.
10. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. For most
people, if they were asked to draw a picture of what the lungs look like they would draw
both looking roughly the same size. While the lungs are fairly similar in size, the human
heart, though located fairly centrally, is tilted slightly to the left making it take up more
room on that side of the body and crowding out that poor left lung.
11. You could remove a large part of your internal organs and survive. The human body
may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the
spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and
virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the
missing organs wouldn’t kill you.
12. The adrenal glands change size throughout life. The adrenal glands, lying right above
the kidneys, are responsible for releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. In
the seventh month of a fetus’ development, the glands are roughly the same size as the
kidneys. At birth, the glands have shrunk slightly and will continue to do so throughout
life. In fact, by the time a person reaches old age, the glands are so small they can hardly
be seen.
credit: Christina Laun
10 Amazing facts about your ... Brain
Expect to see in the next couple of days to see also 10 amazing fact about your hair, nails, internal organs and so on! Enjoy!
1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever
wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right
away? It’s due to the superspeedy
movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the
rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury
sports car.
2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10watt
light bulb. The cartoon
image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the
mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re
sleeping.
3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia
Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a
definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to
be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, containing over
900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power
pretty darn impressive.
4. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. The brain only
makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in
the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation. So
breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in oxygenated cells.
5. The brain is much more active at night than during the day. Logically, you would
think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and general
interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a lot more brain
power than, say, lying in bed. Turns out, the opposite is true. When you turn off your
brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is but you can thank the hard work of
your brain while you sleep for all those pleasant dreams.
6. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. While this may be true, don’tremember many of our dreams and the average length of most dreams is only 23
seconds–barely long enough to register.
7. Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. For years scientists and doctors
thought that brain and neural tissue couldn’t grow or regenerate. While it doesn’t act in
the same manner as tissues in many other parts of the body, neurons can and do grow
throughout your life, adding a whole new dimension to the study of the brain and the
illnesses that affect it.
8. Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Not all
neurons are the same. There are a few different types within the body and transmission
along these different kinds can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
9. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut
your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel
pain. That doesn’t mean your head can’t hurt. The brain is surrounded by loads of tissues,
nerves and blood vessels that are plenty receptive to pain and can give you a pounding
headache.
10. 80% of the brain is water. Your brain isn’t the firm, gray mass you’ve seen on TV.
Living brain tissue is a squishy, pink and jellylike
organ thanks to the loads of blood and
high water content of the tissue. So the next time you’re feeling dehydrated get a drink to
keep your brain hydrated.
take it as a sign you’re mentally lacking if you can’t recall your dreams. Most of us don’t
Credit goes to Christina Laun.
1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever
wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right
away? It’s due to the superspeedy
movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the
rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury
sports car.
2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10watt
light bulb. The cartoon
image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the
mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re
sleeping.
3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia
Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a
definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to
be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, containing over
900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power
pretty darn impressive.
4. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. The brain only
makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in
the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation. So
breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in oxygenated cells.
5. The brain is much more active at night than during the day. Logically, you would
think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and general
interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a lot more brain
power than, say, lying in bed. Turns out, the opposite is true. When you turn off your
brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is but you can thank the hard work of
your brain while you sleep for all those pleasant dreams.
6. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream. While this may be true, don’tremember many of our dreams and the average length of most dreams is only 23
seconds–barely long enough to register.
7. Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. For years scientists and doctors
thought that brain and neural tissue couldn’t grow or regenerate. While it doesn’t act in
the same manner as tissues in many other parts of the body, neurons can and do grow
throughout your life, adding a whole new dimension to the study of the brain and the
illnesses that affect it.
8. Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Not all
neurons are the same. There are a few different types within the body and transmission
along these different kinds can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
9. The brain itself cannot feel pain. While the brain might be the pain center when you cut
your finger or burn yourself, the brain itself does not have pain receptors and cannot feel
pain. That doesn’t mean your head can’t hurt. The brain is surrounded by loads of tissues,
nerves and blood vessels that are plenty receptive to pain and can give you a pounding
headache.
10. 80% of the brain is water. Your brain isn’t the firm, gray mass you’ve seen on TV.
Living brain tissue is a squishy, pink and jellylike
organ thanks to the loads of blood and
high water content of the tissue. So the next time you’re feeling dehydrated get a drink to
keep your brain hydrated.
take it as a sign you’re mentally lacking if you can’t recall your dreams. Most of us don’t
Credit goes to Christina Laun.
A pile of facts #3
Hope you enjoy it!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
10 Amazing facts about your ... Bodily Functions
We may not always like to talk about them, but everyone has to deal with bodily functions on a
daily basis. These are a few facts about the involuntary and sometimes unpleasant actions of our
bodies.
1. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph. There’s a good reason why you can’t keep your
eyes open when you sneeze–that sneeze is rocketing out of your body at close to 100
mph. This is, of course, a good reason to cover your mouth when you sneeze.
2. Coughs clock in at about 60 mph. Viruses and colds get spread around the office and
the classroom quickly during cold and flu season. With 60 mph coughs spraying germs
far and wide, it’s no wonder.
3. Women blink twice as many times as men do. That’s a lot of blinking every day. The
average person, man or woman, blinks about 13 times a minute.
4. A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. No wonder you have to run to bathroom
when you feel the call of the wild. The average bladder holds about 400800
cc of fluid
but most people will feel the urge to go long before that at 250 to 300 cc.
5. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water. While we might typically think
that urine is the liquid part of human waste products, the truth is that what we consider
solid waste is actually mostly water as well. You should be thankful that most waste is
fairly waterfilled,
as drier harder stools are what cause constipation and are much harder
and sometimes painful to pass.
6. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
With that kind of sweatproducing
power it’s no wonder that your gym shoes have a
stench that can peel paint. Additionally, men usually have much more active sweat glands
than women.
7. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
Saliva plays an important part in beginning the digestive process and keeping the mouth
lubricated, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily basis.
8. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to think
you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at least a few
times a day. Digestion causes the body to release gases which can be painful if trapped in
the abdomen and not released.
9. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find earwax
to be disgusting, it’s actually a very important part of your ear’s defense system. It
protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans
and lubricates the ear canal.
daily basis. These are a few facts about the involuntary and sometimes unpleasant actions of our
bodies.
1. Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph. There’s a good reason why you can’t keep your
eyes open when you sneeze–that sneeze is rocketing out of your body at close to 100
mph. This is, of course, a good reason to cover your mouth when you sneeze.
2. Coughs clock in at about 60 mph. Viruses and colds get spread around the office and
the classroom quickly during cold and flu season. With 60 mph coughs spraying germs
far and wide, it’s no wonder.
3. Women blink twice as many times as men do. That’s a lot of blinking every day. The
average person, man or woman, blinks about 13 times a minute.
4. A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. No wonder you have to run to bathroom
when you feel the call of the wild. The average bladder holds about 400800
cc of fluid
but most people will feel the urge to go long before that at 250 to 300 cc.
5. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water. While we might typically think
that urine is the liquid part of human waste products, the truth is that what we consider
solid waste is actually mostly water as well. You should be thankful that most waste is
fairly waterfilled,
as drier harder stools are what cause constipation and are much harder
and sometimes painful to pass.
6. Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.
With that kind of sweatproducing
power it’s no wonder that your gym shoes have a
stench that can peel paint. Additionally, men usually have much more active sweat glands
than women.
7. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
Saliva plays an important part in beginning the digestive process and keeping the mouth
lubricated, and your mouth produces quite a bit of it on a daily basis.
8. The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day. Even if you’d like to think
you’re too dignified to pass gas, the reality is that almost everyone will at least a few
times a day. Digestion causes the body to release gases which can be painful if trapped in
the abdomen and not released.
9. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find earwax
to be disgusting, it’s actually a very important part of your ear’s defense system. It
protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans
and lubricates the ear canal.
Facts load #2
The next load of interesting fact is coming! Clear the way! :)
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
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