Funny Facts ?? (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) 1. Snake venom is ninety percent protein 2. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature 3. Pizza Hut is the worlds largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day 4. Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer 5. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes 6. A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon 7. If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles 8. If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court 9. Everyones tongue print is different, like fingerprints 10. Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call 11. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesnt stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted 12. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket 13. Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour 14. In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas 15. Santas Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen 16. In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent 17. The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year 18. The average persons field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle 19. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name 20. On average, a person has two million sweat glands 21. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. 22. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 23. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it. 24. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples 25. 97% of the earths water is undrinkable 26. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it 27. All babies are color blind when they are born 28. Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old 29. 14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed 30. There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script 31. Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses 32. On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat 33. There are no public toilets in Peru 34. Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients 35. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that its already been digested by a bee. 36. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. 37. Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize 38. The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Arts Sake 39. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney 40. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it 41. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. 42. The Mercedes-Benz motto is Das Beste oder Nichts meaning the best or nothing. 43. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones. 44. There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world 45. X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one 46. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. 47. It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour 48. Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil 49. Time magazine named the computer its Man of the Year in 1982 50. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears 51. Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart. 52. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time 53. Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains 54. Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet 55. The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent 56. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe 57. Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures 58. The original name for the butterfly was flutterby 59. Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day 60. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night 61. 40% of McDonalds profits come from the sales of Happy Meals 62. Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF 63. The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas 64. Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years 65. Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness 66. The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe ones fingers and hands on after eating 67. Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year 68. Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand 69. The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees
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