Bizzare,Unusual and Odd Facts

Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 by carlo in Labels: ,
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  • Google.com's intial IPO reports a total offering price of $2,718,281,828 and the value of the natural log e is 2.71828183.
  • Carniverous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. 
  • Iguanas can and do commit suicide. 
  • An eyelash lives for about 5 months.  
  • The water we drink is 3 billion years old.
  • Ants dont sleep. 
  • Strawberries are members of the rose family.
  • The Coca-Cola company is the largest consumer of vanilla in the world. 
  • Lipstick contains fish scales. 
  • Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world.  
  • There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has ever been mined. 
  • Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than it's army
  • M&Ms were developed so that soldiers could eat chocolate without getting sticky fingers. 
  • Half the world's population has seen a James Bond movie.
  • 90% of women who walk into a department store turn to the right.None knows why.
  • Anthropologists know of no known human society whose children dont play hide and seek. 
  • Only 4 percent of babies are born on their due date. 
  • The average 4 year old child asks over 400 questions a day. 
  • Schizophrenics hardly ever yawn. 
  • Himalaya means 'home of snow'. 
  • A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
  • In Belgium there is a strawberry museum. 
  • In Chinese the words for 'crisis' and 'opportunity' are the same. 
  • Horses,rabbits and rats can't vomit. 
  • The creature with the largest brain in relation to it's body is the ant. 
  • The religion of the Todas people of southern India forbids them to cross any type of bridge.  
  • 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
  • China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 
  • In ancient Egypt ,when a cat died,it was mandatory for it's owner to shave off his eyebrows to show his grief.  
  • Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. 
  • Unlike humans,canaries can regenerate their brain cells. 
  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 
  • Duelling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors. 
  • Strawberries are not berries. 
  • The largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a grapefruit. 
  • The fruit fly was the first animal in space. 
  • The mosquito is the most dangerous animal that has ever lived. 
  • All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666. 
  • Each king in a pack of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades-King David ,Clubs-Alexander the Great ,Hearts-Charlamagne and Diamonds-Julius Caeser. 
  • It has been recommeded by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 
  • Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it. 
  • Every drop of seawater contains approximately one billion gold atoms. 
  • Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharoahs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

     

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