Thursday, March 22, 2007

Believe It Or Not...Continued...

  1. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
  2. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  3. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  4. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
  5. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  6. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
  8. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
  9. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
  10. Starfish haven't got brains.
  11. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  12. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
  13. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
  14. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
  15. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  16. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  17. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
  18. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
  19. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  20. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  21. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  22. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
  23. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
  24. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  25. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
  26. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
  27. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
  28. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  29. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  30. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  31. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
  32. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
  33. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Instead of these general posts, I prefer to read on your daily interesting life/activities... Why so secretive?

BTW, how are you getting on? Any updates? Really must come hunt you down one of these days... U've been MIAing

March 23, 2007  
Blogger YvonneYong said...

Weird Fella, called me on my HP then leave such comments on my Blog right after. Like I've said, I've been quite occupied with some other stuffs.

Looking forward to see you tonight... You are sooooo gonna get it from me :p

March 23, 2007  

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