Monday, August 29, 2011

FWD:: 50 MOST interesting facts

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  • 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.

  • 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

  • 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

  • 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.

  • 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

  • 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.

  • 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."

  • 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

  • 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.

  • 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

  • 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.

  • 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.

  • 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

  • A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.

  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

  • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

  • A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

  • A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

  • A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

  • A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

  • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

  • A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

  • A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

  • A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.

  • A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

  • A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

  • A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

  • A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

  • A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

  • A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

  • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.

  • A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

  • A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

  • A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

  • A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

  • A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

  • A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

  • A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

  • A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.

  • A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

  • A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

  • A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.

  • A whale's penis is called a dork.

  • About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

  • About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]

  • According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

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