Monday, November 21, 2005

More, more interesting facts!!!

You are not the only with facts, Shankar... :p

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors alot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is tosearch for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves withoutturning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and aGentleman" and "Tootsie." 20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of whitepaint and a little thinner is used in pl! ace of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane,just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato canfor a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut fromwomen who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7thcousins.
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

2 Comments:

Blogger A.D. said...

Tell me you didn't freak out after reading interesting fact no.16...

November 21, 2005 7:27 PM  
Blogger Approximus said...

i wanted to remove that. you guys really are sharp! damn it

November 22, 2005 12:44 PM  

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