Saturday, January 3, 2009

  • ^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.