Amazing facts

Amazing Facts

  • Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
  • More than 50% of the world have never made or received a telephone call.
  • The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
  • Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  • A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  • In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
  • Snails breathe through their feet!
  • Its illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.
  • The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springsteen 'Born in the USA'.
  • The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
  • 2 out of 5 people live in China or India.
  • Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
  • Coca-Cola was originally green.
  • It is impossible to lick your elbow.
  • 90% of people who read that will attempt it...
  • Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
  • Annually, the amount of garbage dumped in the worlds oceans, is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales!
  • What's the most shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible!
  • Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  • 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
  • More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.
  • In America in 1977, the punishment for smuggling marijuana was 15 years less than the punishment for smuggling coffee!
  • There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
  • A group of officers is called a mess.
  • There are more chickens than people in the world.
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
  • Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
  • Cell phones have more bacteria and germs than public restroom toilet seats.
  • A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
  • When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.
  • During the 13th century, the word girl meant any young person, whether male or female.
  • 40% of Americans experience mental disorders some time in their life.
  • "In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed more firm to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight"."
  • Father Christmas originally was depicted as wearing green. In the early 30's coke-cola gave him a red outfit instead to go with their adverts and that has stuck ever since.
  • Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound — over a thousand feet per second!
  • At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
  • Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
  • In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
  • The phrase 'don't throw the baby out with the bath water' comes from the medieval days when people would have a bath once or twice a year - it would start with the head of the family having his bath right down to the lowest member of the family (the baby) apparently the water was so dirty you could literally lose a baby in it!
  • Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
  • When nobody else is around, 47% of people drink straight from the carton.
  • The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
  • A Porcupine (sorry, can't spell it!) can float in water!
  • Also, did you know a lobsters blood is blue?
  • Mayonnaise is 70% fat 
  • Rik Waller is 70% fat 
  • Therefore Rik Waller is Mayonnaise
  • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
  • A cockroach can live without its head for an entire week
  • In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

Amazing Facts

  • Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
  • More than 50% of the world have never made or received a telephone call.
  • The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
  • Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  • A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  • In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
  • Snails breathe through their feet!
  • Its illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.
  • The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springsteen 'Born in the USA'.
  • The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
  • 2 out of 5 people live in China or India.
  • Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
  • Coca-Cola was originally green.
  • It is impossible to lick your elbow.
  • 90% of people who read that will attempt it...
  • Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
  • Annually, the amount of garbage dumped in the worlds oceans, is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales!
  • What's the most shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible!
  • Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  • 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
  • More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.
  • In America in 1977, the punishment for smuggling marijuana was 15 years less than the punishment for smuggling coffee!
  • There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
  • A group of officers is called a mess.
  • There are more chickens than people in the world.
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
  • Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
  • Cell phones have more bacteria and germs than public restroom toilet seats.
  • A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
  • When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.
  • During the 13th century, the word girl meant any young person, whether male or female.
  • 40% of Americans experience mental disorders some time in their life.
  • "In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed more firm to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight"."
  • Father Christmas originally was depicted as wearing green. In the early 30's coke-cola gave him a red outfit instead to go with their adverts and that has stuck ever since.
  • Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound — over a thousand feet per second!
  • At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
  • Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
  • In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
  • The phrase 'don't throw the baby out with the bath water' comes from the medieval days when people would have a bath once or twice a year - it would start with the head of the family having his bath right down to the lowest member of the family (the baby) apparently the water was so dirty you could literally lose a baby in it!
  • Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
  • When nobody else is around, 47% of people drink straight from the carton.
  • The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
  • A Porcupine (sorry, can't spell it!) can float in water!
  • Also, did you know a lobsters blood is blue?
  • Mayonnaise is 70% fat 
  • Rik Waller is 70% fat 
  • Therefore Rik Waller is Mayonnaise
  • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
  • A cockroach can live without its head for an entire week
  • In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

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