Thursday, August 29, 2013

INTERESTING THINGS-10


Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.

Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.

Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.

Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.


Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!


There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

INTERESTING THINGS-9


The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.

The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.' uses every letter of the alphabet!

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

INTERESTING THINGS-8



The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!

The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.

The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.

The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.

The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.

The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can

The best diamonds are colored blue-white

The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .

Streets in Japan do not have names.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.

Snails breathe through their feet.

Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake.