Interesting Facts

Many of us do not know many interesting facts about what is happening to the world today. Here are a number of interesting facts today.

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 


2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 


3. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 


4. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. 


5. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. 


6. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. 


7. Butterflies taste with their feet.

8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

9. Starfish don't have brains. 


10. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. 


11. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 


12. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 

13. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

14. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. 


15. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. 


16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 


17. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

18. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

19. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. 


20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. 


21. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

22. Butterflies taste with their feet.

23. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

24. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

25. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

26. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

27. A snail can sleep for three years.

28. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

29. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

31. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
       including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

32. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

34. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

35. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

37. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.


Hahahaha..i hope those who have read these facts have actually enjoyed themselves. Now you know the facts that many people do not know. =)


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SOON KING