Thursday, June 24, 2004, 11:39 pm :
Random Interesting Facts (Click to go to the website)
Decided to give some credit to the webpage.. haha.. I have bold the ones which I think are more interesting and lame.. haha.. Enjoy!
1. Almonds are members of the peach family.
2. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
3. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
4. When you sneeze, all your body parts stop functioning, including your heart. That's why people say 'Bless you' when you sneeze.
5. COCA-COLA WAS ORIGINALLY GREEN.
6. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
7. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
8. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
9. IF YOU KEEP A GOLDFISH IN A DARK ROOM, IT WILL TURN WHITE.
10. A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
11. Some ribbon worms can eat themselves if they cannot find food.
12. APPLES, NOT CAFFEINE ARE MORE EFFICIENT AT WAKING YOU UP IN THE MORNING.
13. THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST PARENTS ARE 8 AND 9 FROM CHINA IN 1910!! (The power of love...)
14. ON AVERAGE, 100 PEOPLE CHOKE TO DEATH ON BALLPOINT-PENS EVERY YEAR. (People who loves to bite pens, it's time to stop!!)
15. Every year, more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes. (Beware of donkeys..)
16. 2500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
17. Your nose and ear NEVER stop growing! (Reminds me of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when Ros was talking about fingernails..)
18. There is a condom brand named Ramses. It is named after the great Pharoah of Egypt, Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. (The privileges of being the ruler of a country..)
19. Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women are not looking, men kick cats. (Reminds me of a certain cat-kicker..)
20. Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of Cotton! (??)
21. If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
22. THE AVERAGE HUMAN EATS 8 SPIDERS IN THEIR LIFETIMES AT NIGHT!!
23. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
24. The word
'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
25. Polar bears are left-handed.
26. DONALD DUCK COMICS WERE BANNED IN FINLAND BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WEAR PANTS. (!!)
27. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
28. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
29. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your back pocket. (Like how do you put an ice-cream cone in your pocket? Nonsense sia..)
30. Pigs orgasms last for 30 minutes.
31. Rats cannot vomit.
32. MOST TOILETS FLUSH IN E FLAT.
33. A NORMAL DIAL TONE IS IN THE KEY OF F.
34. We have almost the same fingerprints as koala bears!!
35. Carnivores will not eat an animal that has been hit by lightning. (Guess they do not like their food to be roasted..)
36. A DORK IS A WHALE'S PENIS.
37. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
38. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
39. Adolf Hitler's real family name was Shickelgruber.
40. Elephants are NOT afraid of mice, despite the myth.
41. THERE ARE ACTUALLY PINK FROGS!!.
42. Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears. (Interesting...)
43. PARROTS WILL GO MAD IF NOT ENOUGH ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THEM. SO, THERE IS A 'MENTAL INSTITUTION' MEANT FOR THEM.
44. Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.
45. Grapes explode when you put them in the mircowave.
46. Allodoxaphobia is the fear of opinions.
47. A GROUP OF OWLS IS CALLED A PARLIAMENT. (Ministers=owls?)
48. Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality (!!) of any group of mammals that exist - especially fruit bats.
49. YOU BURN 26 CALORIES IN A ONE MINUTE KISS.
50. In 1977, a 13 year old boy had a tooth growing out of his foot!
