100 Interesting Facts
1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. 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 cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
51.The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).
52.Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
53.Strong negative emotions lead to damage of immune system.
54.On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
55.The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
56.A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.
57.Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.
58.The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.
59.Hippos can run faster than humans.
60.It is illegal, in some states, to dance to the Star Spangles Banner.
61.With enough training an elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.
62.19 states celebrate “National Admit You’re Happy Day.
63.US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
64.The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
65.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
66.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
67.The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
68.The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
69.The numbers “172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill,
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
70.The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
71.It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
72.The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean,
but blood flowing through your head.
73.You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
74.If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet
two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
75.Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
76.You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
77.The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.
78.Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”).
He is heard about 27 million times a day.
79.Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
80.One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the ’30s lobbied against hemp farmers
(they saw it as competition).
81.If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
82.If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
83.A jellyfish is 95% water.
84.If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
85.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
86.Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
87.Only female mosquitoes bite.
88.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
89.In 1958, the Crayola crayon color “Prussian Blue” was changed to “Midnight Blue” by the request
of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history.
90.One billion seconds is about 32 years.
91.Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal.
92.The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
93.The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat.
94.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.
95.If you were to spell out numbers, the letter A wouldnt show up untill u spell up to the number 1000!
96.Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
97.The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
98.142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the
same order but rotated around when multiplied by any
number from 1 to 6. 142857 x 2 = 285714
,142857 x3 = 428571 ,142857 x 4 = 571428, 142857 x5 = 714285 ,142857 x 6 = 857142
99.Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
100.the movie Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
wow.
