39 Weird Facts You Probably Never Knew.
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Saturday, June 01, 2013
3.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Some things are just too ridiculous to fathom but they are just the truth...if they are not a conspiracy. Check out these ones.
1.Banging your head
against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.
2.The strongest
muscle in the body is the tongue.
3.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
4.A crocodile cannot
stick its tongue out.
5.An ostrich's eye
is bigger than its brain.
6.A rhinoceros's
horn is made of compacted hair.
7.The shortest war
in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896... Zanzibar surrendered
after 38 minutes.
8.Donald Duck comics
were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
9.Shakespeare
invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
10.Marilyn Monroe had
six toes.
11.Women blink nearly
twice as often as men.
12.The name of all
the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
13.A snail can sleep
for 3 years.
14.Rubber bands last
longer when refrigerated.
15.Peanuts are one of
the ingredients of dynamite
16.A shark is the
only fish that can blink with both eyes.
17.The longest
one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
18."Dreamt"
is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
19.A dragonfly has a
life span of 24 hours.
20.It's impossible to
sneeze with your eyes open.
21.The citrus soda
7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original
containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the
bubbles.
22.Mosquito
repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors
so they don't know you're there.
23.Apples, not
caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
24.Most dust
particles in your house are made from dead skin.
25.Adolph Hitler's
mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her
doctor.
26.Walt Disney was
afraid of mice
27.Pearls melt in
vinegar.
28.Richard Milhouse
Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the
word "criminal
29.The second?
William Jefferson Clinton.
30.What do bullet
proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in
common? All were invented by women.
31.What is the only
food that doesn't spoil? - Honey
32.Men can read
smaller print than women; women can hear & smell better.
33.The name 'Jeep' came
from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose"
vehicle, G.P.
34.The nursery rhyme
"Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the Black Plague. Infected
people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the
Rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put
flowers on their bodies (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of
the sores ("a pocket full of posies"). Furthermore, people who died
from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the
disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
35.The first Novel
ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer"
36.TYPEWRITER is the
longest word that can be made using the letters only on the one top row of the
keyboard.
37.Most lipstick
contains fish scales
38.A
"jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
39.Your stomach has
to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest
itself.
The Ringa rosey nursery rhyme fact was the weirdest and creepiest for me.
Which one was the weirdest for you?
1 Screamer(s):
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"?
What about "militant"? Lol
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