Question:
interesting facts!!!!!!!!!?
Dman
2008-12-16 17:07:36 UTC
i would like to know something interesting
Seven answers:
Bukan yang Benar
2008-12-16 17:20:20 UTC
1. The muscles in your heart have the strength to shoot your blood 10 meters in the air?

2.Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

3.The body’s strongest muscle is our tongue

4. A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 mins!!

5.Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying

6.All polar bears are left handed

7.Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue

8.Butterflies taste with their feet

9.A cockroach can live 9 days without it’s head. It only dies because it cannot eat.

10. Humans and Dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure

11. A duck’s quack has no echoe, and nobody knows why

12. Each King on playing cards represent a King in real history:

Spades: King David. Clubs: Alexander The Great.Hearts: Charlemagne.Diamonds: Julius Cesar

13. It is impossible to sneeze

with your eye’s open

14.Multiplying 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

15. Starfish have no brains

16. A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with it’s 2 feet in the air means

the soldier died in combat.

If the horse has only 1 foot in the air,

the soldier died of injuries from combat.

If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes.

17.Mosquitoes have teeth

18.Thomas Alfa Edison was afraid of the dark.

19.The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory

20.In ancient England, people could not have sex without consent from the King.

When people wanted to have a child, they had to solicit a permission to the monarchy, in turn they would supply a plaque to hang on their door when they had sexual relations.

The plaque read … "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.U.C.K.).

This is the origin of the word.

21.When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with  ’’Kan Ghu Ru’’ the english then adopted the word kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was

‘’we don’t understand you’’, ‘’ Kan Ghu Ru’’.

22.It is impossible to

suck your elbow.

23.During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read

"0 Killed".

From here we get the expression "O.K." which means all is good.

24.80% of the people who read this

will try to suck their elbow...hahaha...



NEXT...



History Mystery









Have a history teacher explains this----- if they can.







Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.



Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.



Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.



Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head



Now it gets really weird.



Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.



Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.



Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.







John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.







Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.



Now hang on to your seat.



Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'

Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'



Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.

Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.



Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.



And here's the kicker...



A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland

A week before Kennedy was shot, and he was with Marilyn Monroe.



Creepy huh?





NEXT....



Ode to plurals



We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,

But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,

Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.



If the plural of man is always called men,

Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,

And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?



Then one may be that, and three would be those,

Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,

And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say methren.





i dont think its coincidental...

>> >> >This **** is real freaky, the last thing is even freakier

>> >> >

>> >> >1) New York City has 11 letters

>> >> >

>> >> >2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.

>> >> >

>> >> >3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin

>> >>Towers

>> >>in

>> >> >1993) has 11 letters.

>> >> >

>> >> >4) George W Bush has 11 letters.

>> >> >

>> >> >This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:

>> >> >

>> >> >1) New York is the 11th state.

>> >> >

>> >> >2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight

>> >>number 11.

>> >> >

>> >> >3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2

>>= 11

>> >> >

>> >> >4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65

>> >>passengers. 6+5

>> >>=

>> >> >11

>> >> >5) the tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9

>> >>+ 1+ 1

>> >>=

>> >> >11

>> >> >

>> >> >6) the date is equal to the US emergency services telephone

>> >>number 911. 9

>> >>+

>> >> >1 + 1 = 11.

>> >> >

>> >> >Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind:

>> >> >

>> >> >1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes

>> >>was 254. 2

>> >>+

>> >> >5 + 4 = 11.

>> >> >

>> >> >2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 +

>> >>5 + 4 =

>> >> >11.

>> >> >

>> >> >3) The Madrid bombing took

>>place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4

>> >>= 11.

>> >> >

>> >> >4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers

>> >>incident.

>> >> >Now this is where things get totally eerie:

>> >> >The most recognized symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes,

>> >>is the

>> >> >Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Quran the Islamic

>> >>holy book:

>> >> >"For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome

>> >>Eagle.

>> >>The

>> >> >wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah

>> >>and lo,

>> >> >while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced:

>> >>for the

>> >> >wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was

>> >>peace."

>> >> >

>> >> >That verse is

>>number 9.11 of the Quran.

>> >> >

>> >> >Still unconvinced about all of this..?! Try this and see how you

>> >>feel

>> >> >afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:

>> >> >

>> >> >Open Microsoft Word and do the following:

>> >> >

>> >> >1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the

>> >>first plane

>> >>to

>> >> >hit one of the Twin Towers.

>> >> >

>> >> >2. Highlight the

>> >> >

>> >> >3. Change the font size to 48.

>> >> >

>> >> >4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS

>> >> >

>> >> >What do you think now?!!
frank
2016-05-31 06:57:19 UTC
Even though Reykjavik,Iceland is only 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it has never recorded a temperature below 14 degrees fahrenheit.That's because the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic modifies the climate in Iceland. Antarctica is considered a desert! Even though it's brutally cold, it receives little precip. in a year. You can actually snow ski in Hawaii in the winter on top of Mt. Halekalala(spelling?) The world's hottest temp. ever recorded was 136 in LIbya, the second highest was 134 in Death Valley,CA. Both of those occurrerd about 80 years ago. Nina Hartley, a beautiful and famous adult film star, graduated top honors from UC Berkeley in 1984 before her film career. The Atacama Desert in South America is the world's driest place even though it's along the Pacific coast.It averages a few inches of rain every century! Marilyn Vos Savant, with an IQ of 228, is the world's smartest person. Despite his success and wealth, Bill Gates dropped out of college. The highest and lowest points in the continental US are only 80 miles apart-Mt.Whitnety at 14,000 feet and a point in Death Valley at -282 feet below sea level. The word sanction has two opposing meanings when used as a noun and verb.As a noun it means penalty.As a verb it means to approve. There are palm trees growing outside in southwestern British Columbia,Canada near Vancouver and Victoria. The sun is closer to the earth in winter than in summer believe it or not.Why is winter colder? Because the earth's tilt receives less sunlight in the winter. The Bristlecone pine trees in the Sierra Nevadas of CA are the world's oldest organism at 4600 years old. The Maybach 62S is the world's most expensive new car at $426,000 dollars.Even more than a Rolls Royce! Most Icelanders speak 5 or 6 languages fluently. Camarillo,CA, where I grew uo, was nominated by National Geographic in the 60's as having the world's best climate. A lot of people tend to think Hawaii, but Camarillo's weather can't be beat. In 1977, it snowed south of Miami. Bermuda has the world's northernmost coral reef. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from the moon. A couple of weeks ago, it snowed in Baghdad for the first time, a rare tornado struck near Portland,OR and an unheard of Jan. tornado hit near Milwaukee,WI. Las Vegas means the meadows in Spanish. Today it means lost wages-lol! English became the world's international language after England won The Battle of Trafalgar against Spain and FRance for control over trade routes.That's why English is the world language of business. The Koala Bear is not a bear.I think it's a marsupial. The internet was established in 1969, but it was only used by scientists and researchers.The world wide web was founded in 1991 by a Swiss scientist. Cancer is actually considered 100 different diseases and not a single disease.
Nawal.A.
2008-12-16 17:20:27 UTC
The four poisonous snakes native to North America are:

Cotton Mouths

Rattlesnakes

Coral snakes

and Water Moccasins.
bludevil1614
2008-12-16 17:11:01 UTC
the most personalities ever found in somebody was over 1,000. heck of a multiple personality disorder
KtotheT
2008-12-16 17:10:23 UTC
You can't become a legal citizen of Oregon.
anonymous
2008-12-16 17:13:42 UTC
babies develop knee caps when they crawl
Volusian
2008-12-19 06:53:22 UTC
A flea can jump up to 13 inches which is about 200 times the length of its own body. This would equate to a 900 foot jump by a six-foot man!



Approximately 400,000 people each year are bitten by venomous snakes; approximately half of them will die. (The majority of these people live in Asia and Africa.)



There are over 14 TRILLION UNUSED flyer MILES (most of us know why).



The Starbucks coffee chain is named after the first mate, Starbuck, in Herman Melville’s classic novel, ‘Moby Dick.’



The very first fast food chain to introduce a drive up service window was Jack In the Box in 1951.



On average, Americans consume 350 slices of pizza per second.



Left-handed people with college educations earn 10 to 15 percent more than their right-handed counterparts (after accounting for other determinants of pay—age, intelligence, marital status, and race and ethnicity).



The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years.



Panama Hats are made in Ecuador.



Catgut comes from sheep and horses.



Russians celebrate the October Revolution in November.



A camel's hair brush is made of squirrel fur.



The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after dogs.



A purple finch is actually crimson.



Georgia is the only U.S. state named after a king – England's King George II.



Georgia’s nickname, The Peach State,’ may be a misnomer. Both California (#1) and South Carolina (#2) each produce more peaches annually than Georgia (#3).



The state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.



The MOST densely populated state in the U.S. is New Jersey with an average of 1,143.9 people per square mile.



The LEAST densely populated state in the U.S. is Alaska with an average of 1.1 people per square mile.



Alaska has 33,904 miles of coastline.



Kaskaskia, Illinois, Illinois' first state capital, is WEST of the Mississippi River. The rest of Illinois lies EAST of the Mississippi River.



The Cincinnati, Ohio airport is in Kentucky.



The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey.



You can snow ski and snowboard in Hawaii.



Approximately 37% or almost 4 out of 10 people in the U.S. live within 100 miles of the coast.



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50% of the U.S. population who file income taxes report annual income of less than $30,000 which leads us to the next fact…..



50% of those people who pay income taxes contribute only a little over 3% of the overall revenues collected by the IRS .



.5% (1/2 of 1 percent) of the U.S. population has adjusted gross incomes over $500,000.



The richest 1% of the people in the U.S. earn 21.2% of the total overall income of all wage earners.



Los Alamos, NM has the highest percentage of millionaires in the U.S. (9.7% of its residents are millionaires)



Fed Ex delivers 6,000,000, (6 million) packages a day



New Hampshire has the highest per capita consumption of spirits - 3.6 gallons per person annually, on average.

North Dakota has the highest per capita consumption of beer.

Residents of the District of Columbia have the highest per capita consumption of wine (no surprise here).

West Virginia has the LOWEST per capita consumption of wine.

Utah, ‘Mormon Country,’ has the LOWEST per capita consumption of both spirits and beer. (no surprise here)



The United States is the third most populous country but its 300,000,000+ residents represent slightly less than 5% of the world’s 6.35 billion people.



Americans spend an average 38 hours a year sitting in traffic that wastes an estimated 26 gallons of gasoline per person – Los Angeles metropolitan drivers waste the most gas sitting in traffic for 78 hours per year.



Americans, on average, spend 18% of their income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.



The wife is the sole wage earner in 4% of those married couples with children.



Seven Lego sets are sold every second by retailers worldwide.



80% of all the wine consumed in the U.S. is consumed by 11% of those people who drink alcoholic beverages.



All 50 states in the USA have wineries.



California is largest wine producer in the USA followed by New York State (#2) and Washington State (#3).



Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States by Act of Congress in 1964.



Chicago, Illinois has the most bars per capita of any major city.



Since 2006 in the USA, there have been and continue to be five motor vehicle fatalities every hour, on average.



Every 105 minutes, on average, there is an accident with a motor vehicle and a train at a grade crossing somewhere in the world.



According to a study by the nation's largest auto insurer, the greatest percentage of accidents occur between 3 PM and 6 PM on Fridays.



One-third (33%) of all teenagers will have an automobile accident within one year of obtaining their driver’s license.



According to a Paul Harvey broadcast and various web sources, a study of 40 groups/occupations showed that the WORST drivers are students (#1), followed by medical doctors (#2), then lawyers (#3), architects (#4) and real estate agents (#5). The BEST drivers in this study were homemakers (#5), politicians (#4), pilots (#3), firemen (#2) and the best drivers…………….FARMERS (#1). (I agree. I can’t recall the last time I saw a head on collision that involved two tractors :) :):))



The average life of a cell phone is 18 months.



As of December 2008, 1 in every 6 homes in the U.S. NO longer has land line telephone service.



Walmart is the second largest employer is the U.S. (The U.S. Government is #1.)



Annually, more steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than is used in the manufacture of automobiles. (SOURCE: History Channel – Modern Marvels – STEEL)



The very first VIDEO CONFERENCE telephone call was made in 1927 by President Herbert ‘A chicken in every pot’ Hoover from his office in Washington, DC to New York City.



The very first college football game was played on November 6, 1869 in which Rutgers University defeated Princeton University by a score of 6 to 4 at Rutgers’ campus in New Brunswick, NJ.



The most-lopsided game in the history of college football occurred on October 7, 1916 when the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the Cumberland College (now University) Bulldogs of Tennessee by a final score of 222 to 0.



The very first televised football game, pro or college, took place September 30, 1939 when the Fordham University Rams of New York defeated the Waynesburg College (now University) Yellow Jackets of Pennsylvania by a score of 34-7.



The average length of a player’s career in the NFL is 3 ½ years.



“Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud” is the brand name of the ONE and ONLY rubbing mud that is used by ALL major and minor league baseball teams and some colleges to rub up baseballs to remove the new ball shine/sheen before games. No other mud will do. It is ‘harvested’ from a secret location in a New Jersey tributary of the Delaware River.



The honeybee is the only insect that produces food for humans and is directly responsible for approximately 1/3 of our crop bearing plants.



The only venomous WATER snake in the U.S. is the Cottonmouth (aka Water Moccasin) that is indigenous to the deep south. It got its name from the fact that the inside of its mouth is as ‘white as cotton.’



The official language of Brazil is Portuguese



80% of all the lead used in the USA is contained in car batteries



James A. Garfield, one of four U.S. Presidents who was assassinated (in 1881), often entertained his houseguests with his parlor trick of SIMULTANEOUSLY writing classic Greek with his right hand and writing in classic Latin with his left hand. (Don’t try this in your home.)



The ‘black boxes’ in commercial airplanes are orange.



21% of all American households own FIVE pets or more (60% of households own at least one pet.)



American women, on average, spend 55 minutes a day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.



Diners Club issued the very first credit card in 1950 but it was not plastic. It was printed on heavy cardstock. BankAmerica issued the first bank credit card, BankAmericard (now VISA), in 1958.



The average American has 9 credit cards (bank, store, gas, etc.)



Out of every $100 the average American spends, $40 is charged to credit cards.



1 in every 100 American ADULTS is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female).


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