Friday, 6 September 2013

Did You Know?

#DidYouKnow?

*Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

*You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

*The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

*The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

*Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

*Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

*The plastic things on the end of shoelaces arecalled aglets.

*Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

*The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

*A snail can sleep for three years.

*No word in the English language rhymes with"MONTH."

*Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

*Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

*All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

*An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

*"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

*Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
*The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.

*If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

*If you try to suppress a sneeze,
you can rupture a blood vessel
in your head or neck and die.

*If you keep your eyes open by force,they can pop out.

*Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,two rats could have over a million descendants.

*Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

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