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04-30-2001, 02:17 PM
-On average, we eat 28 cows in our life.
-Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, or PEA, a natural product that enhances in the human body the action of falling in love.
-100 cups of coffee drank in less than 4 hours may kill you.
-Date in wine bottles is that in which grapes were harvested, not when the wine was bottled.
-One kilogram of French fries costs 200 times the cost of one kilogram of raw potatoes.
-An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
-Ants never sleep.
-Blond people has more hair than people with dark
hair.
-A Barbie doll, if human, would measure 99-56-84.
-Ever since we are born, our eyes are always the same size while our nose never stops growing.
-There are only three animals with a blue tongue: a Chow Chow dog, the blue-tongued lizard, and the black bear.
-The word avocado comes from a Nahuatl world that means testicle.
-Every month that begins on a Sunday has a Friday the
13th.
-On a Ritcher scale, every new unit means 32 times the previous one. An earthquake with a strength of 5 is 32 stronger than that of a 4.
-England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian Calendar on 14 September 1752. While went into effect and after some changes, 11 days were lost that God knows where they are.
-If for any reason the sun turns off, we'll realize that 8 minutes later.
-99% of animal species on earth disappeared before man appeared.
-The base of Egypt's Great Pyramid equals the size of 10 football fields.
-The highest temperature ver recorded in the world was in Al Azizia, Libya, on 3 September of 1922 and was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
-Einstein had a speech problem. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
-Los Angeles has more cars than people.
-On average, a person smiles 15 times a day.
-Recent research shows that insects are more attracted by people who just ate bananas.
-A sneeze travels at 965 kilometers per hour inside your mouth.
-The first contraceptive dates back more than 2000 years BC. Egyptians used crocodile feces as contraceptive.
-Donald duck cartoons were prohibited in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
-70% of the American population do not believe that man landed on the moon.
-Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he put cold water on his head.
-Lee Harvey Oswald's body tag was auctioned and sold for $6,600 dollars.
-In 1980 in a Las Vegas hospital, several employees
were suspended because they were crossing bets on the patients’ death hour.
-Aztec emperor Moctezuma had a nephew called
Cuitlhauac which means full of excrement.
-Thomas Alba Edison was affraid of darkness.
-By the time a child has finished elementary school, he/she has seen 8000 murders and 10,000 violent actson TV.
-Historic figure of Napoleon has appeared in 194 movies, Jesus in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.
-The word Karaoke means without orchestra in
Japanesse.
-Time magazine's 1938's Man of the Year was Adolph Hitler.
-Bugs Bunny's original name in 1935 was Happy Rabbit.
-The American state with the most national parks is Alaska, with 8.
-All boats in Venice must be black except those used by high-ranked officers.
-600 years ago, French was England's official
language.
-The only rivers that flow north are the Nile and Fox River, in WI.
-A person will die faster from lack of sleep than for lack of food. Man can make it for not more than 10 days without sleeping, but several weeks without food.
-The longest word without vocals in English is rhythms
-The word "bug" in a computer dates back to 1945 when in Harvard University, Grace Hopper found out that an insect had caused a computer to fail.
-Karate means empty handed.
-Samba means navels together.
-World's longest alphabet contains 74 letters. This is in Cambodia.
-Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, or PEA, a natural product that enhances in the human body the action of falling in love.
-100 cups of coffee drank in less than 4 hours may kill you.
-Date in wine bottles is that in which grapes were harvested, not when the wine was bottled.
-One kilogram of French fries costs 200 times the cost of one kilogram of raw potatoes.
-An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
-Ants never sleep.
-Blond people has more hair than people with dark
hair.
-A Barbie doll, if human, would measure 99-56-84.
-Ever since we are born, our eyes are always the same size while our nose never stops growing.
-There are only three animals with a blue tongue: a Chow Chow dog, the blue-tongued lizard, and the black bear.
-The word avocado comes from a Nahuatl world that means testicle.
-Every month that begins on a Sunday has a Friday the
13th.
-On a Ritcher scale, every new unit means 32 times the previous one. An earthquake with a strength of 5 is 32 stronger than that of a 4.
-England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian Calendar on 14 September 1752. While went into effect and after some changes, 11 days were lost that God knows where they are.
-If for any reason the sun turns off, we'll realize that 8 minutes later.
-99% of animal species on earth disappeared before man appeared.
-The base of Egypt's Great Pyramid equals the size of 10 football fields.
-The highest temperature ver recorded in the world was in Al Azizia, Libya, on 3 September of 1922 and was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
-Einstein had a speech problem. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
-Los Angeles has more cars than people.
-On average, a person smiles 15 times a day.
-Recent research shows that insects are more attracted by people who just ate bananas.
-A sneeze travels at 965 kilometers per hour inside your mouth.
-The first contraceptive dates back more than 2000 years BC. Egyptians used crocodile feces as contraceptive.
-Donald duck cartoons were prohibited in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
-70% of the American population do not believe that man landed on the moon.
-Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he put cold water on his head.
-Lee Harvey Oswald's body tag was auctioned and sold for $6,600 dollars.
-In 1980 in a Las Vegas hospital, several employees
were suspended because they were crossing bets on the patients’ death hour.
-Aztec emperor Moctezuma had a nephew called
Cuitlhauac which means full of excrement.
-Thomas Alba Edison was affraid of darkness.
-By the time a child has finished elementary school, he/she has seen 8000 murders and 10,000 violent actson TV.
-Historic figure of Napoleon has appeared in 194 movies, Jesus in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.
-The word Karaoke means without orchestra in
Japanesse.
-Time magazine's 1938's Man of the Year was Adolph Hitler.
-Bugs Bunny's original name in 1935 was Happy Rabbit.
-The American state with the most national parks is Alaska, with 8.
-All boats in Venice must be black except those used by high-ranked officers.
-600 years ago, French was England's official
language.
-The only rivers that flow north are the Nile and Fox River, in WI.
-A person will die faster from lack of sleep than for lack of food. Man can make it for not more than 10 days without sleeping, but several weeks without food.
-The longest word without vocals in English is rhythms
-The word "bug" in a computer dates back to 1945 when in Harvard University, Grace Hopper found out that an insect had caused a computer to fail.
-Karate means empty handed.
-Samba means navels together.
-World's longest alphabet contains 74 letters. This is in Cambodia.