- For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
- The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
- By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
- The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
- If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
- Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Some facts you never wanna know
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