Monday, September 11, 2006

random facts to entertain you


The octopus' testicles are located in its head.

In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.

The human brain is 80% water.

Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and cook it for dinner.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.

Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them.

The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.

Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

if we could attach everyone's big toe nails together after one day of growth, we could create a toe nail the length of the of Vancouver Island.

Katie said...

where DO you come up with these things??

Heather Anne said...

did you know that the last third of your can of pop is 98% backwash?

thats right. you are drinking your own spit.

did you know that when you smell someone's fart you are actually injesting particles of anus?

indeed.

here's a fact I heard - the surgeon general recommends that you keep your toothbrush at LEAST 6 feet away from your toilet to avoid particles from flushing?

ew.

and here is an interesting and completely unsubstantiated fact - hotdog wieners may partially be made up of human foot skin.

mmmm.

(kloyg)

Anonymous said...

That dog's chasing another vole!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5331740.stm

Billy Reid said...

I danced with Katie.

Anonymous said...

The most disturbin ghting about Heather's comments about hotdogs is the bit about human foot skin- and YOU sell meat ...how do you get paid!???

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