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*The Chinese used fingerprints as a methaod of identification back in 700
*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air
*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people
*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if
you play them loud music
*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th
*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
*Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur
*Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
*A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
*If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
*The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex
*The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)
*A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts
* Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law
* Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
*An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight
*The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
*Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much
*In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)
* Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin")
*In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
*Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
*In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
*Jupiter is large enough to contain all the other known planets in our universe. -Not sure about this
*The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
*Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights
*If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
*Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
*Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides
*There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.
*Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
*Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal
*A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer
*Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
*Turtles can breath through their bottoms.
*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
*The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.
*The Chinese used fingerprints as a methaod of identification back in 700
*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air
*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people
*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if
you play them loud music
*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th
*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
*Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur
*Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
*A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
*If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
*The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex
*The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)
*A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts
* Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law
* Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
*An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight
*The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
*Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much
*In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)
* Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin")
*In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
*Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
*In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
*Jupiter is large enough to contain all the other known planets in our universe. -Not sure about this
*The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
*Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights
*If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
*Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
*Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides
*There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.
*Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
*Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal
*A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer
*Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
*Turtles can breath through their bottoms.
*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
*The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.
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