50 "other" Facts Of Life

[Totster]

50 "Other" Facts of Life...

1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6- There are more chickens than people in the world.

7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is

"screeched."

9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on

4:20.

10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,

silver or purple.

11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the

letters "mt".

12- Almonds are a member of the peach family.

13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end

in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after

Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's

a Wonderful Life."

20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a

radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it

starves to death.

30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but

actually clear.

31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,

which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor

of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he

doesn't wear pants.

33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed

in plane crashes.

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

35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually

turn white.

38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer

than left-handed people do.

40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

uses every letter in the English language.

41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter

with which they start, with the exception of North America.

42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using

the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are

read left to right or right to left.

44- A snail can sleep for 3 years.

45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating one

olive from each salad served in first-class.

46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a

population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

48- "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English

language.

49- No president of the United states was an only child.

And last and definitely most important:

50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!

[Braccobaldo]

...ehi, Totster, you should say...49 "other" facts of life...miss n.8!!

[Totster]

...ehi, Totster, you should say...49 "other" facts of life...miss n.8!!

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oops...

totster

[Crossy]

I was taught (a very log time ago) that the continents were:-

Europe

Africa

Asia

Australasia

and

America

With the later addition of Antarctica.

All of which start and end with the same letter, thus invalidating number 41

If we split The americas into North and South we end up with TWO that don't start and end with the same letter, again invalidating number 41.

Down to 48 'other' facts now

Edited August 18, 2005 by Crossy

[Totster]

Ok... to make up the numbers....

8 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

41 - It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

thankyou

totster

[andyfletch]

No 24.............at the very least the Speaker of the House of Commons is often heard to say " Order, Order !!" when dealing with the chimpanzee's tea party.....sooooooo,

Down to 47 other facts

[Jai Dee]

Geez... for a joke post you're sure getting a rough time totster...

[Crossy]

Ok... to make up the numbers....

8 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

41 - It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

thankyou  

totster 

Sorry Totster, 'women blink...' is already in at number 38

Back to 48 ... do I detect an approaching battle of wits here ?

Edited August 18, 2005 by Crossy

[Crossy]

Geez... for a joke post you're sure getting a rough time totster...

Of course, it's all part of the fun ...

[bdenner]

Ok... to make up the numbers....

8 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

41 - It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

thankyou  

totster 

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Still 49 - 8 is a repeat of 38

Edit - beaten to this observation.

Edited August 18, 2005 by bdenner

[Totster]

No 24.............at the very least the Speaker of the House of Commons is often heard to say " Order, Order !!" when dealing with the chimpanzee's tea party.....sooooooo,

Down to 47 other facts

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That's just being petty - you know what that means... but never mind...

24 - Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

Back to 50 "other" Facts of Life

totster

[Totster]

Ok... to make up the numbers....

8 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

41 - It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

thankyou 

totster 

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Still 49 - 8 is a repear of 38

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Well.. it did say nearly twice as much... but ok..

8 - Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

back to 50

totster

Edited August 18, 2005 by Totster

[Crossy]

I'm rapidly losing count here, how many are we at now?

Just to throw in another spanner, we could 'fix' number 41 by referring to "The Americas" instead of "North America"

[andyfletch]

No 46...............it would appear that the inventor of the electric chair was not Steve Martin in the Little Shop of Horrors :

"Harold P. Brown was the American inventor of the electric chair. He was hired by Thomas Edison to help develop the chair after he wrote an editorial to the New York Post describing how a young boy was killed after accidentally touching an exposed telegraph wire using alternating current.

At the time, Edison and his direct current system was competing with the Westinghouse electrical company, which used alternating current. New York State in 1886 established a committee to determine a new, more humane system of execution to replace hanging. Neither Edison nor Westinghouse wanted their electrical system to be chosen because they feared that consumers would not want the same type of electricity used to kill criminals in their homes.

In order to prove that AC electricity was better for executions, Brown and Edison killed many animals, including a circus elephant, while testing their prototypes. They also held executions of animals for the press in order to ensure that AC current was associated with electrocution. It was at these events that the term electrocution was coined. Most of their experiments were conducted at Edison's West Orange, New Jersey laboratory in 1888.

The experiments apparently had their intended effects and the AC electric chair was adopted by the committee in 1889."

Back to 49 again

[Totster]

Right....

46 - Butterflies taste with their feet.

Back to 50 then.... again..

totster

[andyfletch]

Rumbled

Did You Know

[Totster]

Rumbled

Did You Know

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Actually - HERE

totster

[andyfletch]

"A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out."

- Is that because its just had its throat slit, halal style............????