Post by ibleedpurple on Aug 25, 2008 23:20:49 GMT -6
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
-Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
-Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
-A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
-After a certain period of growth, hair becomes dormant. That means that it is attached to the hair follicle until replaced by new hair.
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
-A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
-Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not contain the word "God."
-Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
-The first television show to show a flushing toilet was Leave It to Beaver.
-The Graham cracker was first used to combat alcoholism.
-Harry Truman was the first president to pardon a Turkey before Thanksgiving.
-India has 50 million monkeys
-Toilet paper was invented in 1857
-Whitby, Ontario has more donut stored per capita than any other place on earth.
-Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
-Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
-The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.
-In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.
-Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war
-The shortest war on record took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes.
-The first European to encounter tea was the Portuguese Jesuit Jasper de Cruz in 1560
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
-Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
-Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
-A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
-After a certain period of growth, hair becomes dormant. That means that it is attached to the hair follicle until replaced by new hair.
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
-A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
-Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not contain the word "God."
-Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
-The first television show to show a flushing toilet was Leave It to Beaver.
-The Graham cracker was first used to combat alcoholism.
-Harry Truman was the first president to pardon a Turkey before Thanksgiving.
-India has 50 million monkeys
-Toilet paper was invented in 1857
-Whitby, Ontario has more donut stored per capita than any other place on earth.
-Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
-Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
-The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.
-In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.
-Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war
-The shortest war on record took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes.
-The first European to encounter tea was the Portuguese Jesuit Jasper de Cruz in 1560
