Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Interesting Facts

Officially some of the weirdest facts I have EVER come across

-High heels were originally made for men
-If your throat tickles, scratching your ear can make it go away
-Kissing someone is more sanitary than shaking hands with them
-The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes
-If you search for 241543903 in Google images, you'll find pictures of people putting their heads in the freezer
-According to National Geographic, redheads might become extinct by the year 2060
-There's no truly angry way to say, "bubbles"
-The world record for constipation is 102 days
-It would take more than 1000 years to watch every video currently on YouTube
-The youngest grandma ever was only 23 years old
-A kick in the nuts is above 9000 del (units) of pain which is similar to giving birth to 160 kids and breaking up to 3200 bones at a time
-At one point Hitler's mother considered having an abortion, but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby
-cat pee glows under a blacklight (? who just decided to try this)
-an office desk has 500 times more bacteria then a toilet (? what do people do on their desks.....)
-a man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately 69 years (69!!!!! YES)
- you'd die if you ate 50 bananas in a row (something about potassium intake... ?)
- should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never take the same airplane as a precaution (lol that'd just be annoying.... and lonely)
-the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card (poor guy)
- there no clocks in Vegas casinos (?)
- tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating (ummm)
- the names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye (wow. creative.)
- a  violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood (dayum!!)
- forest fires move faster uphill than downhill (that sucks if you live on the top of a hill and there's a forest fire at the bottom)
- almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada (oh, canada)
- most lipstick contains fish scales (AND WE PUT THAT ON OUR LIPS????)
- it's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis (and this law was made because.....)
- the first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
- over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people (thats has GOT to suck)
- a 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second 
- the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet (who comes up with this stuff??)
- the average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches (haha sucks to suck)
- the Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins (i wish they did)
- all porcupines can float on water (luckies)
- butterflys taste with their feet (?)
- slugs have 4 noses (?)
- the plastic tips on shoe laces are called aglets (what the?)
- bee's have 5 eyes (?)
- if lady bugs were the size of dogs we would be afraid to go outside (and may i ask why?)
- McDonalds salads are more fattening than their burgers (?)
- breathing the air in Mumbai, india for 1 day is equal to smoking 2.5 packs of cigarettes 
- Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle at an average speed of 25 mph (haha now thats just cool)
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night (AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO NO NO NO WHY WOULD THIS BE ONE OF THE FACTS I FIND?????? NO)
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants (haha look ma no pants)
- women blink nearly twice as much as men (SUCK IT)
- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white (haha seriously. who comes up with this stuff??)
- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
- peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite (YES!!!!!)
- If a tiger loses all it's hair it will still have stripes 
- Worldwide, about twenty percent of all married couples are first cousins (a little creepy, dude)
- A dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans (where have we gone wrong??)
- Biting your nails is the same as licking a toilet seat 



Any other interesting facts???? COMMENT!!!

#stinsonrocks
Maggie

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