Oh my wow, I am such a horrible blogger! (Although I do come up with some pretty spectacular phrases such as, oh my wow, crud monkeys, etc. etc.) What would my fans say??? I have given them nothing the past couple of months!
Actually, to be honest, the only reason you're getting anything right now is so that I can slack off. I have major writers block on my powerpoint for English right now, so, you know. . .
Anyways, Since I have left you all without adaquat entertainment for oh-so long, I while now be taking a page out of Jessica's book, and giving you a bunch of random, but very interesting facts. Enjoy!
· President John F. Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
· In an average lifetime, a person will walk around the equator, 5 times.
· Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
· The 57 on Heinz Ketchup bottles, (for all those people out there who actually care. . . ) represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
· In the early days of telephones, operators would pick up by using the phrase, “Well, are you there?”. It wasn’t until 1895 that they changed to, “Number please?”.
· According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. (Really? Wow! What a coincidence! I hate Mondays too!)
· The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
· Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.
· The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
· The first know contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
· Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name, because it’s offical name (used on all state documents) is, “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”.
· When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months.
· There are two credit cards for every one person in the US.
· Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. (And trust me folks, that’s quite an achievement.)
· It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
· The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 Million.
· A Neanderthals brain was bigger than ours.
· On the new hundred dollar bill, the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
· Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages; heart = church, spades = military, clubs = agriculture, diamonds = merchant class.
· The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would be in the building.
· The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
· The pancreas produces Insulin.
· 1 in 5000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
· A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
· The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the world you want.
· The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
· Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint of the time was the fastest paint to dry.
· Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
· Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
· The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
· World Tourist day is observed on September 27. (Wouldn’t it be funny if there were less tourist’s out that day?)
· The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet away. (That is so cool!)
· When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. (Still think snakes are cool Mary?)
· The Australian 5 and 100 dollar notes are made out of plastic.
· St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
· Stressed is actually desserts spelled backwards.
· If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
· Charlie Brown’s dad is a barber. (Then why does Charlie Brown have such a horrible hairdo?)
· Flying from London to New York by Concord, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
· Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 ft. away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
· You burn more calories sleeping that you do watching TV. (Dang it!)
· A lion’s roar can be heard from 5 miles away.
· Canadian researchers have found the Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than usual. (And how did they find this information out? Do they have it locked in a cryogenics lab somewhere?????)
· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys Gum.
· The largest number of kids born to a single woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. (And she did all of this without any anesthesia.)
· In Ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
· The word “nerd” was first created by Dr. Seuss in “If I ran the Zoo.”
· Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
· The largest rhinestone in the world is 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.
· A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon than an automatic.
· Cats can hear ultrasound.
· Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. (HaHaHa)
· The US has never lost a war that mules were used in.
· Kids grow faster during the springtime.
· On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac buns.
· -40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
· Ancient clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their house down, hence the term “to get fired”.
· Every human spent about ½ an hour as a single cell.
· The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary, “I quit smoking tobacco.” He died one month later.
· The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
· Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
