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Did you know that Raindeer like to eat bananas, or that the most common
name in the world is Mohammed? Why would you care, I don't, but never
the less I have decided to fill this page with totally useless facts.
This facts may be useless now, but remember that someday they may save
your life :-)
It takes about seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep
In England the Speaker of the House is not allowed
to speak
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks.
Butterflys taste with their feet.
A snail can sleep for three years. (the bed must be pretty messy when
he wakes up)
Americans eat nine acres of pizza per day.
Einstein's parents thought that he might be retarded when he was nine
because he had a speech problem.
A sneeze travels at over 600 mph. (a little faster
and it could break the sound barrier and the spray would hit you before
you heard it)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. ( I know someone who's eyes
are bigger than their stomach :-) )
On the island of Trobrand it is a disgrace to
take your girl friend out to dinner.
Women who are nudists use more makeup than other women.
Halloween can be traced back to 700 B.C.
The biggest pumpkin in the world weighed 1,385 pounds
In Tokyo it is usually faster to take a bicycle
than drive a car.
Your body creates and kills 15 million red blood cells every second.
Every day an average of 20 banks are robbed.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
The blue whale is the heaviest and longest animal
on Earth. The average adult length is 82ft in males and 86ft in females,
with body weights of 90-120 tons.
In 1849 the founder of Scientific American Magazine, Rufus Porter
planned to start an airline. He was going to fly prospectors to California
in balloons that were driven by propellers powered by steam engines.
The airline never got off the ground.
Ailurophobia, Aelurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia,
and Gatophobia are various names for the fear of cats.
In the 1500 most brides got married in June because they took their
yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good in June.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes
the animals would slip and fall off the roof--hence the saying "It's
raining cats and dogs."
The largest lobster ever reported was 44 lb, an estimated 40-65
years old.
The inventor of the ice cream cone was born
in Sussex corner- the Dairy Capital of Canada.
Fish can swim from as soon as they're born.
The Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft
Luna 2 in 1959.
Mice originated in Asia and spread throughout Europe centuries ago.
In the 1500s mice arrived in the new world on the ships of the Spanish
explorers.
Every year mice cause more damage than rats.
Most of their damage is through contamination, that causes things
to have to be thrown away.
New York City has 6,400 miles of streets.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New
York City, is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world.
1 in 5 American workers lost a job during the last three years.
There are 19,174 bridges on public roads in
the state of Tennessee.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon
immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the
surface so that it can breathe.
The Dalmatian breed of dog originates from
the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
The oldest working lighthouse in the world
is at La Coruña in NW Spain, near the town of Ferol. A lighthouse
has been on this site since the time of the Roman emperor Trajan.
The lighthouse with the most doors was an old Roman lighthouse known
as the Tour d'Ordre and built at Boulogne in France - it had 96.
Most American car horns honk in the key of
F.
The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
A spider has transparent blood.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
In the average home, 75% of the electricity
used to power electronic products is consumed while the products
are turned off.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear
radiation than humans.
For every $1.00 a woman spends for Valentine's day, a man spends
$1.60.
Now wasn't that fun. Of course I can't vouch for the correctness of
any of these facts, but I believe most, if not all, are true. Anyway
I liked it so much that I may do this again.
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