Here are some interesting, random facts that you will probably never need to know. Unless you want to sound super smart by always stating facts that nobody else knows.... Ps. Know we all know why the chicken crossed the road... (look at the picture to the right...) :D
- Butterflies taste with their feet. (I am so glad this is not true for humans...)
- A duck's quack has no echo. And no one knows why.
- Pearls can melt in vinegar.
- Honey will never spoil.
- Cat urine glows under a black light. Gross!
- Originally, Coca Cola was green.
- Jiffy is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100th of a second.
- The dot that is over the letter "i" is called a title.
- In the 1830's, ketchup was sold as a medicine.
- The meaning of karaoke in Japanese is "empty orchestra".
- After 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days of yelling, you will have produced enough energy to heat up one cup of coffee.
- By licking a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
- You can lead a cow up the stairs, but not back down.
- Elephants cannot jump.
- The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
- 13 seconds is the longest flight time recorded for a chicken.
- Did you know that porcupines can float in water?
- Armadillos can get leprosy.
- Starfish don't have brains.
- A cockroach can live nine days without a head... super gross.
- A twit is what a pregnant goldfish is called.
- Nothing rhymes with orange, purple, month or silver. (In the English language.)
- If a month begins on Sunday, it will have a "Friday the thirteenth."
- Most lipstick has fish scales as one of its ingredients.
- Your hair will still grow for a couple of months after you die.
- Someone squished their hands in jelly to make the sound of E.T. walking.
- You can bite through your finger with the same force you bite into a carrot. Your brain won't allow you to do this, though. (I recommend NOT trying this out...)
- The human heart creates enough force to squirt blood 30 feet.
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food... so the stronger one will obviously survive.
- American horns on cars beep in the tone of F.
- You will burn more calories sleeping than watching T.V.
- 'Nerd' came from Dr. Seuss in his book called "If I Ran the Zoo."
- Ring Around the Rosie is actually a song about the Black Plague
I found most of these at http://www.begent.org/funfact.htm and www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/ in case you were wondering...
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