Weird Facts
1.Babies are born without knee caps!
2.The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929;
"7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
3.Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide
you.The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
4.No piece of paper can be folded into
half more than 7 times.
5.Donkeys kill more people annually than
plane crashes.
6.1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
7.You burn more calories sleeping than you
do watching television.
8.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient
at waking you up in the morning
9.The plastic things on the end of shoelaces
are called aglets.
10.Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
11.Pearls melt in vinegar.
12.The 3 most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
13.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one
knows why.
14.The word which is said at least once everyday
by practically the whole world is "OK".
15.Only one person in two billion will live
to be 116 or older.
16.Snails can sleep for 3 years without
eating.
17.Months that begin on a Sunday will always
have a "Friday the 13th."
18.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
while dogs only have about ten.
19.Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
20.If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it
will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom..
21.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
22.No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, and purple.
23.Men can read smaller print better than
women; women can hear better.
24.Only animal besides human that can get sunburn:
pig
25.Ostriches stick their heads in the sand
to look for water.
26.An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away
with it.
27.Polar bears are left-handed.
28.Your nose and ears never stop growing.
29.Hot water is heavier than cold.
30.Men get hiccups more often than woman.
31.Elephants can stand on their heads!
32.Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
33.The first couple to be shown in bed together
on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
34."I am." is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
35. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
36. Peanuts are one of the ingredients
of dynamite.
37. There are 293 ways to make change for
a dollar.
38. The average person's left hand does
56% of the typing.
39. A shark is the only fish that can blink
with both eyes.
40. There are more chickens than people
in the world.
41. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant
is grown in New Jersey.
42. The longest one-syllable word in the
English language is "screeched."
43. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the
flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
44. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
45. It takes one hour of sex to burn off the
anount of calories in 11 Hershey Kisses.*
46. "Dreamt" is the only English word that
ends in the letters "mt".
47. All 50 states are listed across
the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
48. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
49. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies'
room during a dance.
50. Maine is the only state whose name
is just one syllable.
51. There are only four words in the English
language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
52. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo
de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
53. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
54. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain.
55. Tigers have striped skin, not just
striped fur.
56. In most advertisements, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
57. Al Capone's business card said he was
a used furniture dealer.
58. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame
Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
59. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
60. A goldfish has a memory span of three
seconds.
61. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
62. It's impossible to sneeze with your
eyes open. (*I actually can do that!)
63. The giant squid has the largest eyes
in the world. (*Size of a regualtion basketball)
64. In England, the Speaker of the House
is not allowed to speak.
65. The microwave was invented after a
researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
66. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
67. The average person falls asleep
in seven minutes.
68. There are 336 dimples on a regulation
golf ball.
69. "Stewardesses" is the longest
word that is typed with only the left hand.
70. If you spend long amounts of
time on the internet, it can shorten you attention span by 9 seconds each time. *
