Trivia
The liquid inside young coconuts
can be used as a substitute for
Blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half
more than seven (7) times.
Donkeys kill more people annually
than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping
than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns
until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code
was Wrigley's gum.
The King of Hearts is the only king
WITHOUT A MUSTACHE
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
by eliminating one (1) olive
from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
(Since Venus is normally associated with women,
what does this tell you!)
Apples, not caffeine,
are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from
DEAD SKIN!
The first owner of the Marlboro Company
died of lung cancer.
So did the first "Marlboro Man."
PEARLS MELT
IN VINEGAR!
The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...
but, not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo,
and no one knows why.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
be kept at least six (6) feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles
resulting from the flush.
(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..
And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with
| month |  |
| orange |  |
| silver |  |
| or purple. |  |
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
(Do you doubt this?)
| Our eyes |
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are always the same size from birth, |
| but our nose |
|
and ears |
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never stop growing. |
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
| The words 'racecar,' |  |
| 'kayak' |  |
| and 'level' |  |
or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)
There are two words in the English language that
have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER
is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(All you typists are going to test this out)
| A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. |  |
A goldfish
has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
| A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. |
|
A shark
is the only fish that can blink both eyes.A snail
can sleep for three years.
(I know some people that could do this too.!)
| Almonds are a member of the peach |
|
family. |
An ostrich's eye
is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)
Babies
are born without kneecaps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of
the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
| Peanuts |
|
are one of the ingredients of |
| dynamite! |
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| Rubber bands |
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last longer when refrigerated. |
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches
for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he did that.)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze completely solid.
There are more chickens
than people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
| Women blink |  |
nearly twice as much as men. |
