DiD you know.....facts
 

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better. (haha that's crazy)
http://www.annieabbondante.com/distr...watermelon.jpg

The first Fords had engines made by Dodge

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. (lol holy shit)

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet

It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump

The most common name in the world is Mohammed

America once issued a 5-cent bill

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

As you age, your eye color gets lighter

Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.

We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday

Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better

Your nose and ears never stop growing

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

You forgot Diggy.

There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it

Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world

Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle

All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split

Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores

People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the same symbol.

A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.

McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).


There are over 87,000 Americans on waiting lists for organ transplants

The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.

41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do

More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).

The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".

Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears



tha'ts it for now, if you guys have any feel free to post some

Those should be legal everywhere in the world god damn it.

how do you get killed by teddy bears? Suffocation?

Human beings use the entire brain, most people pass along the idea that we use 10%. In brain scans, there is no part of the brain that doesn't light up and every part of the brain functions.

People do dream in colour, most people used to dream in black and white and now a lot dream in colour. This fact is probably due to the change from b/w to colour television.

I already forgot 80% of what I just read

I will tell this to my gf and save the buck or two when she craves chocolate

LOL win!

i wonder how this happens

I imagine that closing off the canal to your ear increases the moisture and temperature in your ear, allowing bacteria to grow.

what ever happened to diggy?...

also increased the production of ear wax.
noticed it a lot after having to wear earplugs at work all the time.

Ear plugs and in-ear earphones (canalphones) will cause earwax production. The fact was talking about headphones.

wow babies are born without knee caps

i have to check that out.

search the internet for pics of lil babies....


.....oh wait. :blush:

is this where the word "tit" originates from?

:fuuuuu:

how do insect legs get into them ?

Did you know you can save a buck or two if you told your girlfriend the average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it

probably from crawling in the chocolate when they're making it...it's just insect legs..people eat insects for real..i've seen it on the food network all the time..
i'm eating chocolate right now..lol...

Must try the chewing gum while peeling onions, at work have to peel at least 50lbs a day :cry:

interesting facts

yep, use fear to make ur gf lose weight

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