Monday, August 4, 2008

Did You Know??






An eyelash lasts 150 days
31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.
Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
The average person laughs 13 times a day
There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since 1952.
A giraffe's heart weighs an incredible 24 pounds.
Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Cat urine glows under a black-light.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
Monkeys only smile when they are scared.
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court
The dromedary camel can drink 100 liters of water in just 10 minutes.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world
The human heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet
Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.
The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
There is 293 different ways to give back change on a dollar.
An ostrich's eye is larger than it's brain.
Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.
The term LASER is an acronym for
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

The Three Wise Monkeys have names:
Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
Rats and horses can’t vomit.

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