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Interesting facts (you can add or talk)
Jeffrey
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Compiled by mrgukong a forum guy:
* I ntelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
* A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
* Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
* When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
* Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
* A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
* The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
* "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
* If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
* China has more English speakers than the United States .
* Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
* Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
* An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
* Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
* Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
* According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
* The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi.- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
* If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
* Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
* I ntelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
* A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
* Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
* When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
* Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
* A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
* The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
* "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
* If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
* China has more English speakers than the United States .
* Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
* Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
* An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
* Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
* Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
* According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
* The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi.- pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
* If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
* Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
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I'll take their word for it
:nyah:
"3,486,995,346,5689....what? Oh yes, lunch. Order me the chicken salad sandwich. Now where was I? 3,486,995,3....crap, I lost count."