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Joe Nonety
Guest
Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
You will sell your home 17% faster, and for 11% more money if you paint it yellow.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
The average U.S. farm has 467 acres; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.
Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday. (obviously not for me!)
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden....and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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 the Parliament building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "Mt."
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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.
Pacing yourself with your finger allows you to read faster.
10% of all woman registered for computer dating are teachers.
You lose 1 IQ point for every hour below the standard 8 hrs sleep.
Out of the 206 bones in your body, 52 are in your feet.
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight but takes up more than 20% of your blood flow.
The human brain holds approx. 5 terabytes (5,000 gigabytes) of data.
Males sweat 40% more then females.
Testosterone in males decreases 10% every 10 years.
Every 100g of Corn Flakes has 1 mg of faecal matter.
Dogs are faster then Cats in the wild because their toe nails are constantly out leading to greater traction. The only big
cat with this feature is the cheetah.
When greyhound dogs race 75% of the time they are off the ground.
A baby robin eats almost 100 meals a day all before noon!
Ducks have more bones in their neck than giraffes.
Cows sleep only 3 hours a day.
One third of all land species are beetles.
Over 50% of a elephants diet becomes waste.
Pigs are the only animals other than humans that can get a sun burn.
Dogs' mouths are 200 times more cleaner then human mouths.
Rats can't vomit - that's why rat poison works.
Lobsters have blue blood. Moths have white blood.
Switzerland has the highest number of car thefts per capita.
The Russian embassy in the U.S. has 3.8 million dollars of unpaid parking tickets.
Canada's peace keeping force has only 426 less soldiers than the U.S. despite being 1/10 its population.
The Soviet flag was the first one on the moon.
The state of Vermont has produced twice as many presidents as hockey players.
Venus's day is longer then its year.
Out of the 4500 people that attempted to climb mount everest 150 have died and only 750 made it to the top.
Lighting strikes up and not down.
Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
The United States consumes more energy than India, the Middle East, South America, Africa, South East Asia and Oceania
combined
Andorra has no unemployment, which is just as well because they have no TV channels either
Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan (Laois being the only county in Ireland to be likewise)
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
The symbol # is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways - rough, dough, thought, plough, through, Scarborough,
slough, cough, hiccoughed.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The longest word in the English languages is 1903 letters long and is a chemical compound called....
methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglyc
ylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucy
llysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylproly
lphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylargi
nylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucyalanyll
eucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylaspar
aginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylgluta
myllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalany
larginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylproly
laspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreony
ltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasp
araginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenyla
lanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalan
ylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpro
lylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine
The octopus' testicles are located in its head.
Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'.
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
Vanilla is the most erotic smell for a man.
There is more Monopoly money printed in a year than real money (worldwide).
India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
Completely blind chameleons still take on the colours of their surroundings.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
Volleyball is the most popular sport in nudist colonies.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
The venom in a Daddy Longlegs is more poisonous than that in a Black Widow or a Brown Recluse.
7% of men and 0.1% of women are colour blind.
Only female bees work.
Vaccines contain formaldehyde, antifreeze and pesticide.
City dwellers have 3 times as much nose hair as rural dwellers.
97% of all US Banknotes contain traces of cocaine. For 20 dollar bills its 99.7%.
In Kentucky 50% of Newly weds are teenagers.
Penguins can change salt water into fresh water.
Converted to dollars, worldwide, $40 trillion changes hands every day.
Louisiana is the only state that grows in land mass every year.
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
A frog can only see moving objects.
People who are lying tend to look up and to their left.
Bananas aren’t fruit - they are a type of herb.
Women blink twice as much as men.
Car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
If the population of China ran past you at 50 Miles Per Hour, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
You will sell your home 17% faster, and for 11% more money if you paint it yellow.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
The average U.S. farm has 467 acres; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.
Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday. (obviously not for me!)
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden....and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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 the Parliament building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "Mt."
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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.
Pacing yourself with your finger allows you to read faster.
10% of all woman registered for computer dating are teachers.
You lose 1 IQ point for every hour below the standard 8 hrs sleep.
Out of the 206 bones in your body, 52 are in your feet.
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight but takes up more than 20% of your blood flow.
The human brain holds approx. 5 terabytes (5,000 gigabytes) of data.
Males sweat 40% more then females.
Testosterone in males decreases 10% every 10 years.
Every 100g of Corn Flakes has 1 mg of faecal matter.
Dogs are faster then Cats in the wild because their toe nails are constantly out leading to greater traction. The only big
cat with this feature is the cheetah.
When greyhound dogs race 75% of the time they are off the ground.
A baby robin eats almost 100 meals a day all before noon!
Ducks have more bones in their neck than giraffes.
Cows sleep only 3 hours a day.
One third of all land species are beetles.
Over 50% of a elephants diet becomes waste.
Pigs are the only animals other than humans that can get a sun burn.
Dogs' mouths are 200 times more cleaner then human mouths.
Rats can't vomit - that's why rat poison works.
Lobsters have blue blood. Moths have white blood.
Switzerland has the highest number of car thefts per capita.
The Russian embassy in the U.S. has 3.8 million dollars of unpaid parking tickets.
Canada's peace keeping force has only 426 less soldiers than the U.S. despite being 1/10 its population.
The Soviet flag was the first one on the moon.
The state of Vermont has produced twice as many presidents as hockey players.
Venus's day is longer then its year.
Out of the 4500 people that attempted to climb mount everest 150 have died and only 750 made it to the top.
Lighting strikes up and not down.
Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
The United States consumes more energy than India, the Middle East, South America, Africa, South East Asia and Oceania
combined
Andorra has no unemployment, which is just as well because they have no TV channels either
Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan (Laois being the only county in Ireland to be likewise)
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
The symbol # is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways - rough, dough, thought, plough, through, Scarborough,
slough, cough, hiccoughed.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The longest word in the English languages is 1903 letters long and is a chemical compound called....
methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglyc
ylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucy
llysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylproly
lphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylargi
nylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucyalanyll
eucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylaspar
aginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylgluta
myllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalany
larginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylproly
laspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreony
ltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasp
araginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenyla
lanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalan
ylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpro
lylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine
The octopus' testicles are located in its head.
Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'.
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
Vanilla is the most erotic smell for a man.
There is more Monopoly money printed in a year than real money (worldwide).
India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
Completely blind chameleons still take on the colours of their surroundings.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
Volleyball is the most popular sport in nudist colonies.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
The venom in a Daddy Longlegs is more poisonous than that in a Black Widow or a Brown Recluse.
7% of men and 0.1% of women are colour blind.
Only female bees work.
Vaccines contain formaldehyde, antifreeze and pesticide.
City dwellers have 3 times as much nose hair as rural dwellers.
97% of all US Banknotes contain traces of cocaine. For 20 dollar bills its 99.7%.
In Kentucky 50% of Newly weds are teenagers.
Penguins can change salt water into fresh water.
Converted to dollars, worldwide, $40 trillion changes hands every day.
Louisiana is the only state that grows in land mass every year.
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
A frog can only see moving objects.
People who are lying tend to look up and to their left.
Bananas aren’t fruit - they are a type of herb.
Women blink twice as much as men.
Car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
If the population of China ran past you at 50 Miles Per Hour, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.