AMAZING FACTS

Did you know?

    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
    David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over  by James Earl Jones          until he saw the screening of the movie.
    Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
    In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
    Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
    No word in the English language rhymes with month.
    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
    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.
    Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory  workers in  Malaysia          combined.
    In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
    One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp           farmers-they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol,  or caffeine.
    Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
    The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW:

    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

    A snail can sleep for three years.

    All polar bears are left handed.

    American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

    Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

    Butterflies taste with their feet

    Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.

    Cats urine glows under a black light.

    Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

    If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

    If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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

    Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

    No word in the English language rhymes with month.

    Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.  (How exactly did they come to this conclusion anyway?)

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

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

    Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

    Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

    Starfish haven't got brains.

    Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

    The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

    The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

    The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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

    The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.  The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

    The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary.

    The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

    Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

    You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

    You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Some More Random Facts

1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
2. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
3. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it     starves to death.
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
5. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England  in 1896.  Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
7. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
8. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
9. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
10. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
11. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
12. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
13. Marilyn Monroe had six toes (not that anybody really noticed).
14. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
15. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
16. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
17. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"  uses every letter in the English language.
18. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
19. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
20. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letter on only one row of the keyboard.
21. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
22. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
23. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
25. China has more English speakers than the United States.
26. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
27. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
28. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
29. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
30. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
31. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refer to a distinct part of DNA.
32. No president of the United States was an only child.
33. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight.  These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
34. The person who sent you this is a genius.