Crazy and cool facts!

Post a crazy and or cool fact!




You must post at least one with each posts!!!!!



mine:
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
Children grow faster in the springtime.

*googles*

♣ Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means "To make mouth happy".
♣ An earwig (or pincer bug) has two penises, but favors one or the other like we do with our hands.
♣ The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

《龜雖壽》
神龜雖壽，猶有竟時。
騰蛇乘霧，終為土灰。
老驥伏櫪，志在千里；
烈士暮年，壯心不已。
盈縮之期，不但在天；
養怡之福，可得永年。
幸甚至哉！歌以咏志。
Is made by Wing-chi.

According to google...COLOMBIA has the highest murder rates

The US has about 76,430,000 pet cats

Interesting.


Statistically, you are more likely to be killed by a cow attack than a shark attack.
Abraham Lincoln predicted his own death a week before he died.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
China was the first country to use paper money.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the "friction" match.
-40 degrees Celsius is the exact same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

♣ The tradition of bobbing for apples and lighting candles inside pumpkins came from the Romans.
♣ Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the QWERTY keyboard.
♣ Butterflies taste with their feet.
♣ A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
♣ Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
♣ The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
♣ Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
♣ In Iceland, tipping at a resturant is considered an insult!
♣ The first product to contain a barcode was Wrigley's gum!
♣ You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.
♣ Drunk drivers in Taiwan can choose their penalty.
♣ In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death? (In my opinion, this is a good punishment.)

Provided by Google:

1 - Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2 - Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3 - There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4 - The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

5 - A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6 - There are more chickens than people in the world.

7 - The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

8 - On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over then Parliament building is an American flag.

9 - All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

10 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

11 - "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

12 - Almonds are a member of the peach family.

13 - There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

14 - A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

15 - An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

16 - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

17 - In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

18 - Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

19 - The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

20 - A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

21 - A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

22 - It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

23 - The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

24 - In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

25 - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

26 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

27 - There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

28 - The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

29 - A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

30 - A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

31 - Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

32 - Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

33 - More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
34 - Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

35 - Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

36 - Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

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

38 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

39 - Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

40 - The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

41 - The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

42 - TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

43 - The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

44 - A snail can sleep for 3 years.

45 - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

46 - The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

47 - Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

48 - "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

49 - No president of the United states was an only child.

50 - The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

Beat that.

I knew this without research, the Zebra Danio are the first fish to have gone to space.

Bai Hu, I could easily beat that, not saying I'm going to, though.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.