Friday, October 21, 2005

Facts

THE SIMPLE FACTS

  • Did you know you share your birthday with at
    least 9 other million people in the world?
     

  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
     

  • When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
    still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
    facilities for blacks and whites.

  • The human heart creates enough pressure when
    it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

     

  • Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

     

  • On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

  • The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
     

  • "I am."
    is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
     

  • The longest word in the English language is 1909
    letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
     

  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

     

  • Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history
    not to have a full moon.

     

  • You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

     

  • Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

     

  • Every time you lick a stamp,
    you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

     

  • Cat's urine glows under a black light.


     Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
     

  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
     

  • Babies are born without knee caps.
    They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

     Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

     

  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
     

  • The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II,
    moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
     

  • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
    all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
     

  • One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
    cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp
    farmers...they saw it as competition.


     

  • You know that you are more likely to be killed
    by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
     

  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.


     

  • There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
     

  • The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
     

  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would
    have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
    If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
    is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

     

  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
    dogs only have about ten.

     

  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
    but our nose and ears never stop growing



With regards,
R. Kaja Mohideen
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