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99 Weird And Interesting Facts by thunderclap(m): 8:53pm On Aug 04, 2013
1.A paper cannot be folded more
than 9 times.
2. More calories are wasted by
sleeping than sitting and watching
tv.
3. The first object with a number
scanning label is the chewing gum.
4.The Wright Brothers’ first flying
journey is shorter than a Boeing 747
airplane’s wings.
5. In 1987,after an airline company
reduced a small piece of olive on
every first class passenger’s meals,
$350,000 USD was saved annually.
6.Everyone drinks coffee to perk
themselves up,but in fact an apple
can perk one up more than a cup of
coffee can.
7.The majority of dust in your home
consists of your own dead skin.
8.The full name of the Barbie Doll is
Barabra Millicent Roberts.
9.When Hitler’s mum had Hitler,she
once seriously considered abortion
but the doctor persuaded her to
keep the baby.
10.Marilyn Monroe has 6 toes on her
foot.
11.In the movie E.T,the sound of E.T’s
footsteps are made by someone
squashing oranges rotten.
12.Pearls melt in vinegar.
13.In the number of people posting
marriage ads,35% are already
married.
14.You can pull a cow upstairs,but
the cow will not know how to come
down by itself.
15.A pig cannot stare up at the sky.
16.”quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog” has the 26 alphabets in it.
17.A duck’s quack will not have
echos,the reason til now is
unknown.
18.A snail can live for 3 years
without food and sleeping.
19.Tommy Lee Jones and America’s
vice-president were roommates in
Harvard.
20.In a month,if the first day is
Sunday then that particular month
will have a Black Friday.
21.Heating up a rock in the
microwave oven will cause the rock
to explode.
22. 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 =
1234567654321
23.The only word that has 15
alphabets not reused in it is
“uncopyrightable”.
24.A cat can produce over 100 types
of sounds,but a dog can only do 10.
25.The darker the environment,the
more frequent a cat’s passing urine
times.
26.If you toss a coin upwards 1000
times,the number of times of heads
facing upwards is 495.
27.According to the Newton
dictionary the longest word in the
world is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolc
anocon...
28.A human’s stomach will renew its
food contents inside every 2
weeks,or else it will self-digest.
29.Coke was originally green in
colour.
30.The Hawaiian language only has
12 alphabets.
31.The country with the highest
proportion of people walking to
work is Alaska.
32.If Barbie was a human,her
measurements would be 39-23-33
33.On average,the number of people
in the air every hour in America is
61,000 people.
34.Only honey will not turn bad
forever.
35.Near the Carribean sea there’s a
species of oysters that knows how
to climb trees.
36.The world’s youngest parents
appeared in 1910,an 8-year old and
a 9 year-old Chinese people.
37.A human’s ears and nose never
stop growing bigger and bigger
38.There’s a square-shaped melon in
Japan,it was cultivated because of its
convenience to place in
refrigerators.
39.A starfish has 8 eyes,one on each
leg.
40.Some insects’ eyes have hair.
41.A giraffe’s tongue measures 2
feet long in length.
42.An elephant can stand on its
head.
43.An ant will scratch itself when it
wakes up.
44.Thomas Edison is afraid of the
dark.(so that’s why he invented the
lightbulb lol)
45.The world’s oldest goldfish is 41
years old,named Fred.
46.Because of Einstein’s inability to
speak at the age of 9,his mum once
thought he
was retarded.
47.Arab women can initiate a
divorce if their husbands don’t pour
coffee for them.
48.Only 55% of Americans know
that the Sun is a star.
49.Most lipglosses have fish scales
content in them.
50.Giraffes cannot cough.
51.Owls are the only bird species
able to differentiate numbers and
colours.
52.A whale’s heartbeat only averages
9 times every minute.
53.The water that we drink into our
body is already 3 billion years old.
54.Only 30% of people can expand
and contract their nostrils at will.
55.A clam can switch its gender from
male to female,and it will take place
few times
throughout its life.
56.According to a British law passed
in 1845,suicide is a very serious
crime,death sentence of hanging is
the punishment.
57.In space,astronauts are unable to
cry or shed tears because there’s no
gravity pull hence the tears are
unable to come out.
58.A chameleon’s tongue is twice as
long as its own body.
59.Americans use toothpicks most
often.
60.On average a human must move
his eye muscles for 10000 – 15000
times a day.
61.An elephant will still remain at its
standing position even when it has
died.
62.Some insects are still able to
survive for a year without its heads.
63.Da Vinci spent 12 years alone
painting Mona Lisa’s lips.
64.When glass shatters,the average
speed for glass is 3000 miles per
hour.
65.A dairy cow can produce more
milk when listening to music.
66.A rose picked during afternoon
can survive longer than a rose
picked in the morning.
67.Baby tiger sharks fight each other
in the womb,the winner will be able
to be born alive.
68.A 70 pound octopus can only go
through a hole a coin’s size because
it does not have a vertebrae.
69.An Indonesian bamboo insect
has the longest body in the world,as
long as 1 feet.
70.In fact,a hippo can run faster
than humans.
71.The inventor of parachutes gave
the chance of parachuting first in
the world to a dog.
72.A Japanese crab can be as long as
12 feet long.
73.A newborn turkey must be taught
by its parents how to eat food,or
else it will die of hunger.
74.A shark can detect blood content
up to 1/1000000th percent in water.
75.the original meaning of Samba in
the Samba dance actually meant
“rubbing bellies together”
76.Children grow faster during
spring.
77.Bats are the only mammals able
to fly.
78.A catapillar has over 2000
muscles.
79.A human’s heart can produce
pressure that can squirt blood 30
feet high.
80.A male mantis cannot mate with a
female mantis with its head,so when
they mate the female mantis has to
chop the male mantis’ head off.
81.A shrimp’s heart is at its head.
82.You can never lick your elbow
with your tongue.
83. 50% of the world population has
not received any calls before at all.
84.A rat and a horse cannot vomit.
85. “Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's
Sick” is one of the hardest sentences
to pronounce in the English
language.
86.If you sneeze too hard,it may
cause your chest to rupture. But if
you hold back your sneeze by force,it
may cause one of your blood vessels
to break.
87.If you talk on the phone for over
an hour,the amount of ear **** in
your ears will increase by 700 times.
88.A lighter was invented earlier
than a matchstick.
89. When you sleep,you may eat over
70 kinds of small insects and about
10 spiders unknowingly.
90.The strongest and most flexible
muscle in our body is the tongue.
91.It is impossible to sneeze with
your eyes open.
92.It is impossible to kill yourself by
holding your breath.
93.Everytime you lick the back of a
stamp,you would have absorbed
1/10th of calories.
94.Right-handers live an average of
9 more years than left-handers.
95.Fish are unable to stick out their
tongues.
96.Polar bears are left-handers.
97.An ostrich’s eyes are larger than
their brains.
98.Starfish do not have brains.
99.Lice can jump over a distance 350
times longer than their
bodies,equivalent to a human
jumping over the length of a football
stadium.

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Re: 99 Weird And Interesting Facts by amiskurie(m): 9:06pm On Aug 04, 2013
omo na only number1 i see wey I plummet!
Re: 99 Weird And Interesting Facts by Toheeb31(m): 9:09pm On Aug 04, 2013
Nice
Re: 99 Weird And Interesting Facts by badmeat(m): 10:49pm On Aug 04, 2013
Interesting facts,

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