InvisibleMan
Apr 13th, 2009, 09:27 AM
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears
never stop growing.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
* A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
* Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a
few weeks.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
* When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
* Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
* Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
* The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
* "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive
double letters
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed
people do
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language
* If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction
* China has more English speakers than the United States
* Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
* Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
* The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turi-Pukakpikima ungahoronukupoka iwhe
nuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill
* If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US)
at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears
never stop growing.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
* A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
* Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a
few weeks.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
* When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
* Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
* Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
* The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
* "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive
double letters
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed
people do
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language
* If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction
* China has more English speakers than the United States
* Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
* Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
* The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turi-Pukakpikima ungahoronukupoka iwhe
nuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill
* If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US)
at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.