Some stuff to spruce up this blog a bit :)
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INTERESTING FACTS:
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why
Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. State capital without a McDonald's.
The Pentagon in Arlington, VA, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
When it was built in the 1940's, Virginia still had segregation laws requiring seperate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
It takes about a 1/2 gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Who would try?
If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies, you have $1.19.
You also have the largest amount in coins, without having change for a dollar.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver".
In the great fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt out but only 6 people were injured.
Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.
Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death!!!
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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JOKES!
1.
Did you hear about the man at the grocery store?
Cokes fell on him, but they didn't hurt him because they were soft drinks!
2.
A mushroom walked into a ball room and saw a very pretty girl,
so he asked her to dance with him. "I don't dance with mushrooms," she replied.
"Well why not," the mushroom complained, "I'm a fun-guy!"
3.
There was this guy watching T.V., and he heard a knock at the door,
so he got up to get it, and when he opened the door,
all he saw was a snail, so he picked it up and threw it as far as he could,
and three years later he was watching T.V., and someone knocked at the door,
so he got up to get it, and there the snail was, and the snail looked up at the guy and said,
"What the heck was that for?"
