Friday, 27 August 2010

Interesting Facts

  1. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
  2. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  3. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
  4. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
  5. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
  6. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  7. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
  8. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
  9. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  10. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
  11. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  12. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
  13. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
  14. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
  15. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
  16. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
  17. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
  18. A whale's penis is called a dork.
  19. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
  20. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
  21. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

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