Saturday, January 3, 2009

  • A duck's quack doesn't echo
  • A snail breathes through its foot
  • Fish cough.
  • An ant's smell is stronger then a dog's
  • It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
  • Shrimp can only swim backward
  • Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open
  • A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways
  • The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
  • Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day
  • Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump
  • Giraffes have no vocal chords
  • Cats can hear ultrasound
  • Despite its hump...camels has a straight spine
  • have 47 teeth
  • There is 63,360 inches in a mile
  • 11% of people in the world are left-handed
  • The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime
  • The average smell weighs 760 nanograms *
  • A human brain weighs about 3lbs
  • 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet
  • You blink over 10,000,000 times a year
  • A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100mph
  • Brain waves can be used to power an electric train
  • The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body
  • Pigs get sunburn
  • The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days
  • The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
  • Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges
  • A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations
  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day
  • There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo
  • The longest one syllable word is "screeched"
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month
  • A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second
  • There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia
  • The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use
  • The average person spends 2 weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change
  • You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world
  • The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year
  • The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime
  • No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times
  • Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US
  • There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter
  • About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet
  • Alaska has more caribou then people
  • August has the highest percent of births
  • Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
  • Oysters can change genders back and forth
  • The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
  • Until the 19th century solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
  • A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance
  • A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid
  • The average American walks 18,000 steps a day
  • The average raindrop falls at 7mph
  • There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.
  • Fish can drown
  • A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet
  • Lizards communicate by doing push-ups
  • Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs
  • The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime
  • A turkey can run at 20mph
  • When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less
  • You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum
  • In a year, the average person walks 4 miles making their bed

Snapple Facts....

  • A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds
  • Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons
  • Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
  • Slugs have 4 noses
  • Camels have 3 eyelids
  • A honey bee can fly at 15mph
  • A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
  • A bee has 5 eyes
  • The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph
  • Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas
  • Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
  • Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
  • Cats have over 100 vocal chords
  • Camel's milk does not curdle
  • All porcupines float in water
  • The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
  • A hummingbird weighs less then a penny
  • A jellyfish is 95% water
  • Children grow faster in the spring
  • Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower
  • Almonds are part of the peach family
  • Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work
  • The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monument
  • The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses
  • The only food that does not spoil is honey
  • The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
  • A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying
  • On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime
  • Fish have eyelids
  • The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping
  • There is one million ants to every human in the world
  • Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
  • If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white
  • Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day
  • ^The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
  • ^Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
  • ^Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
  • ^Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
  • ^If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
  • ^Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
  • ^There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
  • ^Singapore has only one train station.
  • ^The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
  • ^It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
  • ^Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
  • ^Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
  • ^There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
  • ^Blue and white are the most common school colors.
  • ^On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
  • ^The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
  • ^There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
  • ^Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
  • ^Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
  • ^The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
  • ^Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
  • Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
  • -Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
  • -A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
  • -People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
  • -When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
  • -Only 7% of the population are lefties.
  • -40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
  • -Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
  • -The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
  • -The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
  • -The average housefly lives for one month.
  • -40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
  • -A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
  • -The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
  • -Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
  • -Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
  • -The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
  • -The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
  • -Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
  • -In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
  • -Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
  • -The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
  • -Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
  • -Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
  • -If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
  • -Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  • -The Eiffel Tower has 1792 Steps.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
  • -There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  • -The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  • -A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  • -There are more chickens than people in the world.
  • -Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  • -The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  • -On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over theParliament
  • building is an American flag.
  • -All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
  • -No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
  • silver, or purple.
  • -"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  • -All 50 states are listed across the to! p of the Lincoln Memorial
  • on the back of the $5 bill.
  • -Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  • -Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  • -Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  • -There are only four words in the English language which end in
  • "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  • -Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
  • de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
  • -A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  • -An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • -Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  • -In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
  • -Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  • -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."
  • -A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  • -A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  • -It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • -The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  • -In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  • -The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
  • tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  • -The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  • -There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  • -"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the
  • left hand.

Smokersss....

One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.