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Random Facts

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:37:34 +0000

Here’s some of my compiled random facts.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

About 90% of Americans view themselves as being shy.

There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.

40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Three years of a person’s life is spent on the toilet.The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.

not sure if all of them are true but I googled on some and they appear to be true.. hehe

Body Facts

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:14:59 +0000

Here’s some Body Facts you probably haven’t heard of yet..

More than half the bones in your body are located in your hands and feet.

There is enough iron in the human body to make one small nail.

Women blink almost twice as much as men.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

Beards are the fastest growing hair. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it could grow to 30 feet over the course of his lifetime.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails and your middle fingernail is the quickest one to grow. It takes about 150 days to grow out a full length fingernail.

Your brain continues to send out electrical wave signals approximately 37 hours after death.

The nervous system transmits messages to the brain at speeds of 180 miles per hour.

The human nose can remember 50,000 different smells.

The human eye can detect more than 10,000,000 different colors!

Your jawbone is the hardest bone in your body.

When you were born, you had 350 bones in your body, and after childhood 144 of these bones fused together.

Your brain stops growing when you are about 15 years old.

Laughing and coughing put more pressure on the spine than walking or standing.

Your stomach produces a new lining every 3 days in order to avoid digesting itself in its own production of acid.

About every seven years, your body replaces the equivalent of an entirely new skeleton.

The spinal cord is less then two feet in length and is the same diameter as your index finger, yet it contains over 10 billion nerve cells.

Blood type A can receive blood types A & O safely. Blood type B can receive types B & O. Blood type O can receive only O blood but are “universal donors” because O is acceptable to all other blood types. Blood type O is the most common blood type worldwide.

The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle of the whole body. It contracts in less than 1/100th of a second.

It takes approximately 200,000 frowns to create one permanent brow line.

Your eyesight is the sharpest in the middle of the day.

via: msichicago

Amazing but true facts

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:11:07 +0000

Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

The term “bank teller” originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to “tell” throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

The brand name “Jelly Belly” was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband’s 20-pound weight gain.

The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.

Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.

Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.

The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.

Rubbing Tabasco on one’s upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.

British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of

Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.

The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.

A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.

Fish have “dandruff” caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.

Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.

The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.

“Hello Kitty” began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.

Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

If
you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous.
If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is
that of a vegetarian.

The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

None of them is real..

About your Birthday

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:48:22 +0000

Do you want to know some cool facts about your birthday?
Try this site: dayofbirth.co.uk

look at mine :

Results for 30th October * :

You were born on a Friday.
Your star sign is Scorpio.
Your birthstone is Opal or Tourmaline.
The season was Autumn.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Monkey.
The US President was * (Republican).
The UK Prime Minister was * (Conservative).
You are * years * months * days old.
It is 129 days until your next birthday.
In dog years you are * years old.
You are * days old.
You are approximately * hours old.
You are approximately * seconds old.

* for privacy purposes

but that doesn’t stop there, the last line is a link that says “See links to more interesting information about 30th October…”

so I clicked the link and there’s more info! like “See people who share your birthday” “UK #1 single on your birthday” etc.

try it out