Posts Tagged ‘did you know’

Cool Facts

November 8, 2008 - 12:17 pm No Comments

Here are some facts that you probably didn´t know about.

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 

All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.

Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

Amazing Facts

October 7, 2008 - 9:15 am 6 Comments

Here are some interesting facts that you probably didn´t know…

* Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg, Germany where the serving of hamburgers first became popular.

* Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water.

* The game of GOLF was invented in Scotland, and for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.

* The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA.

* The term “spa” is derived from a town in Belgium of the same name, known for its baths and mineral springs.

* The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other: Adhere and Separate.

* The word Salary was derived from the Latin salarium referring to the salt allotment for soldiers in the Roman army.

* The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes.

* Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

* Utah law states that no woman is allowed to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance.

* Ultrasound tests have revealed that male foetuses have the capability for erections in the last trimester of gestation.

* The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is “daysypgal.”

Did you know…

September 10, 2008 - 5:18 pm 1 Comment

1. Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.

2. The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.

3. Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

4. The word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.

5. Oscar was designed by MGM’s chief art director, Cedric Gibbons.

6. Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.

7. The Swift is a bird that remains airborne for 2-3 yrs, during which it sleeps, drinks, eats, and mates on the wing.

8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourage saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

9. The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold.

10. “Caterpillar” means “hairy cat” in Old French.

11. There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.

12. The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he’d never publish another.

Things you probably didnt know

August 24, 2008 - 7:28 pm 34 Comments

English writer Tom Nuttall published some fascinating but true ‘did-you-knows’ in his book called “In Fact”. Here are few of them…

1. Hitler was one of the nominees for the 1938 Nobel Peace prize.

2. The average British woman spends two years of her life gazing in the mirror.

3. 2/3 of earth population have never seen snow.

4. In 1982, a new law was inforced in Zimbabwe, were it was forbidden for people to make fun of president’s name, Canaan Banana.

5. 6% of all heart attacks happens during the sex. 90% of them happens while you are cheating.

6. NASA never had any spaceships in space between 31 December and 1 January. They are affraid of computer error during these dates.

7. Every 3400th American is Elvis impersonator.

8. Woman are estimated to buy 80% of everything sold.

9. 44000 babies are born each day in China.

10. There are almost twice as many chickens alive as humans.

11. Men produce twice as much saliva as women.

12. Sixty-two of the world’s 100 richest men are married to brunettes.

13. On any given evening 35-40 paparazzi follow Britney Spears.

14. While filming the movie Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick, shot 96 takes of Tom Cruise walking through a door.

15. No English manager has ever won the Premier League.

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

17. No words in the English language rhyme with “orange”, “silver”, “purple” or “month”.

18. The most expensive age of your life is 34.

19. On an average day, about 3.3% of the world’s population has sex. Only 0.4% of these acts results in a birth.

20. More than 90 per cent of plane crashes have survivors