06.13.07
Fun Facts
One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
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.
Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
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.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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).
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. Its concrete will not be fully cured for another 500 years.
Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world’s currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
All of Queen Anne’s 17 children died before she did.
The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 “puppy” teeth, then 42 adult teeth.
