Post some cool, random, or amusing facts!
They must be real facts though!
EDIT: Lets see if we can reach page 50!
I think turtles breathe out of their butts....
Food
Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes.
An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.
Frozen food can be just as nutritious as fresh food.
By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
The most popular meal ordered at restaurants in the U.S. is fried chicken.
Egyptian pyramid builders used to eat a lot of garlic because they thought it would increase their strength.
An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.
Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.
The word Popcorn is derived from the middle English word "poppe," which means "explosive sound".
There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987.
On average, Americans eat one hundred acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about three hundred fifty slices per second
The most disliked vegetable by Americans is Brussels sprouts.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in Waco, Texas in 1885.
Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight.
In Great Britain, 53% of all homes have a Scrabble set.
King Tut was buried with more than 150 loin cloths
Cows that are given names produce more milk ..lol
Health & Body
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.
People still cut the cheese shortly after death.
Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.
Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
It has been medically proven that laughter is an effective pain killer.
The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore.
A fetus that is four months old, will become startled and turn away if a light is flashed on the mother's stomach.
Household Products
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
A person uses, approximately, fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
Friday The 13th Wrote:Food
Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes.
An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.
Frozen food can be just as nutritious as fresh food.
By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle.
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
The most popular meal ordered at restaurants in the U.S. is fried chicken.
Egyptian pyramid builders used to eat a lot of garlic because they thought it would increase their strength.
An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.
Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.
The word Popcorn is derived from the middle English word "poppe," which means "explosive sound".
There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987.
On average, Americans eat one hundred acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about three hundred fifty slices per second
The most disliked vegetable by Americans is Brussels sprouts.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in Waco, Texas in 1885.
Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight.
I contribute to the pizza, that is my favorite food of all time lol
and for me okra is the nastiest thing ever !
Great post idea Friday
love this
Legal
In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
The first person to die in the electric chair was William Kemmler, an ax murderer from New York on August 6, 1890.
In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.
In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.
Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
mary319 Wrote:I contribute to the pizza, that is my favorite food of all time lol
and for me okra is the nastiest thing ever
Pizza is awesome! :bowow:
Religion
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.
John Bunyan, who was a popular writer from the 1700's, was put in prison for twelve years for preaching.
Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House.
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal.
Science & Technology
Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
Central air conditioners use 98% more energy than ceiling fans.
There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.
Japan uses the most energy per year than any other country.
Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.
Just by recycling one aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to have a TV run for three hours.
Misc
Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest.
In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.
Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water
The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is
Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.
The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.
The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
Friday The 13th Wrote:Pizza is awesome! :bowow:
agreed :bowow:...ok a fact of my own that I noticed.... most every Weight watchers etc is near either pizza or some kind of food shop!!! my favorite pizza place is down from the Weight Watchers, right in between them is a nut store, talk about temptation LOL
Animals
According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
A leech has 32 brains.
Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers.
When a porcupine is born, its quills are soft and mostly white, but harden within hours.
Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food.
In 2008 a new species of Lobster was located off the cost of Easter Island. It was found 2300 meters down in the ocean and is completely white with no eyes and a pair of fuzzy pincers.
mary319 Wrote:agreed :bowow:...ok a fact of my own that I noticed.... most every Weight watchers etc is near either pizza or some kind of food shop!!! my favorite pizza place is down from the Weight Watchers, right in between them is a nut store, talk about temptation LOL
I noticed that too!
More animal Facts
# A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.
Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.
The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight.
The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years.
An octopus has three hearts.
Even More Animal Facts
The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel, pound for pound.
An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year.
The fat from sheep, which is called tallow can be used to make soap and candles.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity.
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
History
In 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for one month for establishing the first birth control clinic.
Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times.
The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming.
People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.
The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
China is the world's oldest known continuous civilization.
More History
The movie Exorcism of Emily Rose was based on an actual exorcism preformed in the 70's on a young lady named Anna Michel.
The Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901.
The oldest working Post Office in the world is located in the village of Sanquer, located in the Scottish Lowlands. It has been operating since 1712.
New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790.
In the year 1900, for a women to be a telephone operator she had to be between the ages of 17 and 26 and not be married.
There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce.
Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels.
Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous.