Friday Fact Posting!
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angelakOkay. This is incredibly long.
From now on, though. I want to post a list of 10 facts every Friday if I have time!
These are fun! How much useless stuff can I learn!?! Today, I start it off. With 3 pages worth of facts.
Hahaha.
Friday Fact Day!
Here’s some weird facts I looked up while bored at work because the holiday week has rendered it slow so far:
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More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
11% of the world is left-handed.
123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
3% of all mammals are monogamous
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
One in ten people live on an island
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler
A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat
A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.
A women's heart beats faster than men. – [And yet, Women are found to live longer than men on average. Hm.]
A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month
According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature. ->> this one’s for Cristin.
All nude people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
-Angela
From now on, though. I want to post a list of 10 facts every Friday if I have time!
These are fun! How much useless stuff can I learn!?! Today, I start it off. With 3 pages worth of facts.
Hahaha.
Friday Fact Day!
Here’s some weird facts I looked up while bored at work because the holiday week has rendered it slow so far:
===================================
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
11% of the world is left-handed.
123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
3% of all mammals are monogamous
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
One in ten people live on an island
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler
A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat
A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.
A women's heart beats faster than men. – [And yet, Women are found to live longer than men on average. Hm.]
A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month
According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature. ->> this one’s for Cristin.
All nude people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
-Angela
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:34 pm (UTC)Whooohooo!
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:00 pm (UTC)I have to concur--books can be so much more of a turn on than cheap, unrealistic porn. It's the psychological element that's so damn exciting--knowing what's racing and hammering through someone's mind; make's me horny just thinkin' about it.