Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trivia. Show all posts

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.

     

Random Facts

Posted: by carlo in Labels: ,
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  • The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.
  • Crocodiles can live for many months without eating because they don't use that much energy
  • The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.
  • Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.
  • Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.
  • Coffee is the second largest item on international commerce in the world.
  • The 1,340-foot-long wall that gave New York's Wall Street its name was only 12 feet tall and erected in 1653 by Dutch colonists to protect against their enemies.
  • One of the first telephone answering machines was developed in Switzerland during the 1950's. It took three days to install.
  • The planet Venus has the longest day.
  • Electrical stimulation in certain areas of the brain can revive long lost memories.
  • Experiments conducted in Germany and at the University of Southampton in England show that even mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by noise. The sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision.
  • Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute. 
  • The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
  • The word "puppy" comes from the French poupee, meaning "doll."
  • The letters VVSOP on a cognac bottle stand for - Very Very Superior Old Pale.
  • Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.
  • The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.
  • Peter Karpin, a German espionage agent in World War I, was seized by French Intelligence agents in 1914 as soon as he entered the country. Keeping his capture a secret, the French sent faked reports from Karpin to Germany and intercepted the agent's wages and expense money until Karpin escaped in 1917. With those funds the French purchased an automobile, which, in 1919, in occupied Rurh, accidentally ran down and killed a man, who proved to be Peter Karpin.
  • During World War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution.
  • Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.