Friday, June 6, 2008

20 Interesting Facts

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

3. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

4. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

5. It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.

6. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

7. MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003.

8. Yahoo the complex internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

9. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig)

10. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

11. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

12. 14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig ... quality over quantity)

13. Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that too.)

14. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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

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

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

18. The genetic code of the duck-billed platypus contains avian, reptilian and mammalian features.

19. The genetic code of the duck-billed platypus contains avian, reptilian and mammalian features.

20. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.

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