Professional Documents
Culture Documents
INTERESTING FACTS
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create
the energy of an atomic bomb.
5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(Hmmmmmmmmm........)
7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
(If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and
always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(Who knew....? Who cares? How'd they find out, did they ask them?)
11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
(Creepy)
13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Interesting Facts II
1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's
sensors so they don't know you're there.
2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a
toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad
served in first-class.
14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing
them in public.
22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already
married.
23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it?
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)
26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines
were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out
how to walk up straight staircases.
27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the
letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear
weapons combined.
31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you?
http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg
http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)
38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because
when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that
would occupy the building.
42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing. SCARY!!!
45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one
row of the keyboard.
49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand
seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.