^It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.^Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.^Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.^There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.^Blue and white are the most common school colors.^On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.^The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph^There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.^Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.^Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.^The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.^Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. -Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton. -A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. -People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. -When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart! -Only 7% of the population are lefties. -40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. -Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. -The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. -The toothbrush was invented in 1498. -The average housefly lives for one month. -40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. -A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. -The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. -Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. -Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep. -The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. -The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms ) -Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem. -In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. -Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. -The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. -Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery. -Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins. -If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green -Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.-There are more chickens than people in the world.-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over theParliamentbuilding is an American flag.-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.-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".-All 50 states are listed across the to! p of the Lincoln Memorialon the back of the $5 bill.-Almonds are a member of the peach family.-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.-There are only four words in the English language which end in"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula"-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named afterBert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a WonderfulLife."-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radartube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only theleft hand.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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it took me 10 minutes to read this whole post
I knew some of those, but yeah, pretty interesting. I really liked the kids ask 475 questions a day.
check out my blog, I've also posted a bunch of randomness.
took me the same time kar... oh and the american flag on the canadian two dollar bill WOW!
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