Saturday, January 19, 2013

Miscellaneous facts....

Did you know bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women?

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck & die

If the Government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14,Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?(Hmm..)

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Butterflies taste with their feet

In 2013, you can re-use calendars from these years: 2002, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1963, 1957, 1946, 1935, 1929, and 1918

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue (No wonder it is deadly).

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. They are five times bigger than the human eye and bigger than that of any land animal. Only the grandest squids in the ocean have larger eyes

Chickens can live without a Head If the brain stem is left intact after beheading a chicken, it can continue to live quite in harmony. There is one documented case of a headless chicken, the Miracle Mike, who lived for an impressive 18 months without a head. The famous story was born when a farmer, Lloyd Olsen, missed his axe and the brain stem of Mike was left intact, leaving one ear and most of the brain stem intact. The Headless Chicken was fed with a mixture of milk and water with an eye dropper

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan

Did you know, there is an edible deodorant; a body odor fighting candy? (It must be tough to decide, putting the poison on the outside or in the inside.)

The word "Gorilla" comes from a Greek word "Gorillai" meaning a tribe of hairy women

A hug that last for 20 seconds releases oxytocin, which can make someone trust you more.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death ( People actually do this? )

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

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