Stuff You Might Not Know


Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

When you put a seashell to your ear, the sound you hear is not the waves, but actually the echo of the blood pulsing in your own ear.

Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'Eyes On Me', and it only took her about 4 hours.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

No word in the English language rhymes with MONTH.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

GO is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (anyone else distrubed by this?)

married mens live longer then single mens do.....

girls has one less rib then mens do.....

black peopel has extra muscle in their knee then anyone do, thats why they jump higher. (dont believe me, watch the NBA)

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.

in a VERY quiet room, u will be able to hear a watch ticking

most lipsticks contain fish scales.....>_<

in ur lifetime, u will have swallowed an average of 6 spiders during sleep.

1. Coca - Cola was originally green.

2. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

3. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

4. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only in one row of the keyboard.

5. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

6. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

7. It's impossible to lick your own elbow.

8. People said "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

9. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

10. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

11. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

12. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history:
Spades - King David.
Clubs - Alexander the Great.
Hearts - Charlemagne.
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

13. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

14. If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

15. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in the battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

16. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Answer : All are invented by women.

17. Question - What's the only food that doesn't spoil. Answer : Honey

18. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

19. A snail can sleep for three years.

20. All polar bears are left handed.

21. Butterflies taste with their feet.

22. In the last 4000 years, no new animals has been domesticated.

23. On average,peoples fear spiders more than they fear death.

24. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

25. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

26. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

27. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

28. Rats can multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

29. Wearing headphones for an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

30. The cigarette lighter was invented before the matches.

31. Like the fingerprints, everyone's tongue print are different.

32. And finally, 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

ppl fear public speaking more den death [this fact sounds weird]

what makes humans get old is oxygen...
thats mean if you breath a lot of oxygen(like right after doing exercice), then u get older faster.

its a fact that if u stand out side and look at the sun all day long
u will go blind lol

) A blue whale ejaculates 300, 000 gallons of sperm.

2) Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and
the males can roar like lions.

3) Sloths take two weeks to digest their food
.
4) Deer can't eat hay

5) The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

6)Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

7) Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.

8)Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

9) Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.

10) Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day

11) The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months
.
12) In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like
pretzels or popcorn.

13) Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants *eww*

14) Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo

15) Coca Cola would be green without food colouring.

Haha, that was fun, although some were repeated.
It's my first time seeing this..because I've never visited the joke forum before. o__o;; <- random info

oh man wow nice facts...

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

i love that one...

and this one was pretty interesting... the one with the statue and horses legs in the air

Interesting facts. I liked the number, one, also.

Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.

that is definitely interesting

there are so many things i didn't know

Cool facts. The rat one is disturbing...

I remember reading a few of these on Libra pads PUHAHA

Interesting...


--chiaki-sama

most lipsticks contain fish scales.....>_<

ewwie.. >.<

wooo o_____0 some facts dere i didn evn noe .. very interesting thx

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

this is sad,
i am left handed.

And i didn lick my elbow though, seen it 3 times already

I knew these facts.
I feel smart. lol.

I am so turned off beer now.. >__<

The rat one is a bit disturbing, lol.

And the one about the horse statues are interesting.

interesting. seen most of this before but its always interesting every time i read it.

me too! the number one amused me hehe

oh wow . some of those facts are really interesting

2 weeks of kissing...wow

i've read some of these before but "During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged" that's just disturbing...

The beer one is so disgusting sounding. The rat fact isn't all that great either...

some of these are on those libra things LOL

Wow interesting facts indeed, some of which are highly disturbing though haha.

lmao I tried to lick my elbow even though i knew it I couldn't.. and the headphone things is nasty

hmm... interesting, never heard of some of them.
yar, i like the numbers one, that's cute.

interesting.. even though i've read most of them before..

thanks for sharing

Hahaha I tried licking my elbow~and I never knew about the headphone thingy I am DOOM~

that's some interesting facts.

i would've tried licking my elbow if i wasn't in the university library

interesting

wOw..nice interesting stuff..wow..

whos faye wong n i didnt try to lick my elbow....

very interesting.
i like the dentist one. i knew those dentists were scary folk.
hahhaa
p.s. you got the elbow licking one wrong. haha. i remember my friend told me that and yes, i was one of the 90% people who tried to lick their elbow. [i was pretty close though... hahaha]
thanks for posting<3

interesting facts

who ever found all these facts is realli smart or has a lot of time on their hand... but is still cool!!!

interesting facts! i've seen some of them before like the elbow one... and tried it.. unsuccessful of course. x]

i read these already but its so interesting everytime i read it

wow! many facts

wow...i didn't know like more than half of that stuff...so nice to know...eww six spiders? that's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i mean soooooooooooooooooooooooo gross to think about....yea spiders are my ickie spot w/me...but hey got one think that i don't think i saw....strawberries have more vitamen c then oranges! love snapple they know so much...hehehehhe...

interesting facts

ahha i actually sat there and read all of them..some ive heard of before. and some are repeated.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

i dun like that fact..>_> lol i'm left handed..><

what makes humans get old is oxygen...

i'm gunna hate pe class now....xD

my brain just grew from all the facts!
IMMA GENIUS! ^^

Wow.. I learned a lot. Lol. >O<

haha ....

ALot of repeats .. but still funny ^^

in ur lifetime, u will have swallowed an average of 6 spiders during sleep.

Yuck =X

Refreshes my memory. xP

lol..i love useless info ^^;

I like the TYPEWRITER one. Never knew that!!

Wow, i learned something new today.

wow my brain hurts, to much new info. for it to take in haha.

fish scales? lipsticks? eeks.