Interesting Facts

Below are some of the facts... which merely some of know.....


Facts 1:

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a
time.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint,
Michigan.

On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter
Judy is 15.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who
has a speaking role.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.

The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska.

We had four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January
2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened that century was
in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's
salaries.

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six
different cats.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is
3263827.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the
production of Guinness beer.

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more
like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

Facts 2:
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
* A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peels and raisins.
* It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a
gallon to clean the pot.
* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
* Almonds are a member of the peach family.
* There is cyanide in apple pips.
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking up in the morning
* Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for
vitamin C.
* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
* Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a
meal.
* The world's number one producer and consumer of fresh pork is China.
* Most of the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin.
* James Madison was the shortest president of the United States, 5'4...
Abraham Lincoln was the tallest, 6'4.
* James Buchanan was the only United States president to never marry. His
niece, Harriet Lane, played the role of the First Lady!
* A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
* Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
* There is a motor-vehicle accident every 18 seconds in the United States!
* 97% of the world's water is in the ocean!
* The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
* Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
* It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon!
* There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
* It is possible for a baby to get the hiccups, while still in mommy's
tummy!
* For the first 2 billion years of its existence, the earth had no life on
it whatsoever!
* Each seed of the palm tree weighs 30 pounds!
* It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally
planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.



Facts 3:

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people
in the world.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems
in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or
left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound
buses.

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are
rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run
in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but
they actually sleep in other places.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other
color.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go
mad and sting itself to death.

Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles
(jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with
legs dangling, fall asleep.

Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human
manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2
larger ones in front.

The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by
timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of
chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be
very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only
works in warm weather. (Try it!) The original game of "Monopoly" was
circular.

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost
Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the
New World.

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.

Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.

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

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

A snail can sleep for 3 years