Odd but true facts
I like reading these mails when people send me. Bcos you never fail to be amazed by these odd but 'true' facts.'Odd but true facts'
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer. (Mine says STL.)
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. (Er... wouldn't it make everything else bounce anyway?)
3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. (Anyone live near a canyon? Please test this.)
4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. (Must have been a good harvest of grapes that year.)
6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (Hell! Maybe I'm one of them!!)
7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. (This happened to my gurlfren. It's sad.)
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. (Why didn't they show this in the movies like 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' or 'Tarzan'?)
17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer. (How apt. Sorry... dun like cigarettes and smoking.)
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. (Is he married?)
22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. (Cool.)
23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. (Waahahahhaaa...)
24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. (Does the Crocodile Hunter know that?)
27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp. (You learn something new everyday.)
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. (And that is why I don't like the Bible. Kidding...)
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. (Really..........? Scrurrying to look for a rubber band...)
33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head. (Who wants to let them live anyway?! What more decapitate it!?! KILL!!!!!)
38. European women didn't wear underwear until the 1900's. (Cool... Why wasn't I born then??)
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime. (We do? Freaky.)
40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil. (This proves my point that Coca-cola is bad... I mean, hey, they sure made my toilet squeaky clean when I was in Perth!)
42. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. (This I believe, from all the weird dreams I've been having!!)
44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying"yes" in Sri Lanka.
46. There are more chickens than people in the world. (I find this quite unusual, because, how would you know? Does someone actually go around the world counting chickens? What about those eaten? Fast food? Take-out? Chinese restaurants?)
47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog. (Why? Why?)
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse orderis "subcontinental".
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
51. Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed.
52. In Pakistan, it's rude to show your feet. (And it's not rude to show the middle finger? Ok.)
posted by Jennirhiow @ 2:41 pm
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