52 interesting facts in exchange for your amazing facts?

Question

1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

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

18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)

19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

21. Pearls melt in vinegar.

22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)

26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

29. Butterflies taste with their feet.

30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

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

33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

34. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)

38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

39. A snail can sleep for three years.

40. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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

43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

44. All polar bears are left handed.

45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

46. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

48. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

Answer 1

not all of your facts are true. and that is a fact.

Answer 2

well, I've got nothing. but I can see #51 is wrong. Slow match was first. You're referring to the self contained start/burn match.



and to go on....the first "match" was actually called a pil. Slivers were sliced from firewood and kept in a box on the fireplace mantle peice. No cigs back then, but the old fellers used to grab one, stick in the fire and light their pipes. The wives did the same to light the cook stove (if they had one). When I was a child, we still used pils to light the oil fired oven...and our smokes and pipes.



and 48 is gramattically wrong. The sentence go is a widow. It should correctly be "you go".



49 is revevant to what dimension? If she were life sized you could make her 5 foot two inches. Then she would be .....five foot two inches. lame whereever you got this one.



And 47 assumes a qwerty board. there are others. qwerty should be included.



People with a lisp would disagree. nuns, dunce, hunts.....nm









Anyway, I have no amazing facts, but I do have advice. Think about what you come across in life. Most every thing is wrong in one way or another. (that's an amazing fact right there!)



Oh! I have one. Apparently, a person can't fold anything more than 7 times. Try it with a peice of paper (even toilet paper).

Answer 3

King Edward VII had a mistress named Alice Keppel. Alice Keppel's great-granddaughter is the Duchess of Cornwall, who of course was Prince Charles' mistress before they got married.



Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until 1949.



The planet Saturn has such a low density that if you could find a big enough body of water, it would float.



The "emergency blankets" that are often the first item shipped into a disaster area are made of a big sheet of aluminized mylar. It's insulating properties were discovered as part of the space program, when it was used to shield the lunar module from the sun's heat. Before that, aluminized mylar had exactly one use--as tinsel on Christmas trees.



Between the end of the Second World War and 1964, there were no English banknotes with a value greater than £5.



The strings on an electric guitar pull on the neck with a force of nearly 150 pounds. The neck is actually designed to bow "backwards", so the tension of the strings will pull it straight.



Because of the curvature of the earth, the towers of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge in New York are 1 5/8 inches closer at their bases than at their tops.

Answer 4

here is something that maximum folk don't be attentive to (and that i don't likely comprehend to be honest!) Out Newtonian theory of gravity, a rigidity pushing down on us is incredibly fake. Einstein proved that area and time at the instant are not 2 separate issues yet in basic terms like a fabric, interwoven perpendicular to one yet another. This fabric, he reported, is all around us making up our universe and lots greater and lots take a seat on the fabric warping it incredibly is shape. So our planets are like widespread balls sitting on duvet which you drew taught, "weighing" the fabric of spacetime down in the middle. And what we experience as gravity is incredibly the earth rolling around the sting of this shape it has created in the distortion of spacetime fairly than a discrete Newtonian rigidity. Wild huh?! after which you may ask, why do not all of the planets connect in the middle of the dip they have created in area time? properly it incredibly is because of the fact the universe is constantly increasing! and because it incredibly is increasing now, scientists have theorized that it may desire to have as quickly as been plenty smaller! in reality, each thing in our universe was an infinitely small spec with infininte warmth and limitless density until eventually sometime...growth (the huge Bang!). Now what brought about the huge Bang? properly that could get us into String theory which I study a e book on yet I certainly don't comprehend. it incredibly is incredibly exciting nonetheless! it incredibly is been shown mathematically and that they are attempting to return up with a thank you to instruct it experimentally. If it incredibly is authentic, then there are not in basic terms 4 dimensions, there are a minimum of 11! this means that there ought to be an completely different universe under a millimeter away out of your face which you will not see or touch because of the fact it exists in a greater advantageous length! How's that for unusual?!

Answer 5

Marilyn Monroe did not have six toes, something that can easily be confirmed by looking at any barefoot photo of her (and there are many)



This ridiculous rumor was started by photographer Joseph Jasgur, who photographed Monroe in 1945 and was upset that she refused to acknowledge him after she became famous.



You can also confirm this information on snopes.com

Answer 6

On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than left-handed people; if polar bears (44) could only teach themselves to be right-handed, they would live much longer!

Answer 7

I can lick both my elbows-easily!