Fun Facts and Trivia

Bet you didn't know.....

 It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (Try it!)

 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

 A shrimp's heart is in its head.

 In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single

case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand, or attempted to do so.

 It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

 The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue
twister in the English language.

 If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.

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

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

 In every episode of Seinfeld there was a Superman somewhere in the picture.

 In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.

 Some lipsticks contain fish scales.

 Cat urine glows under a black-light.

 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper
position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).
 A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.

 The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and
"strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is
intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries.
"Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only
have 9 letters.

 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.

 There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

 Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula"

 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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

 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

 The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and
Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

 A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.

 "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Facts About the Human Body
Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70
heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it
is 1000!

If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach
about 60,000 miles.

Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome.

Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span
that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very
little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition.

In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.

Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.

By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of
water.

Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed
of sound – over a thousand feet per second!

Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in
the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases
– pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to
clot. If we didn’t have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got
a small cut!

It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. It’s mostly made of dead
skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells every day which fall on the
floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You could say,
“That’s me all over.”

It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the
esophagus.

A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.

The human body is 75% water.

Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all
of a human’s blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That’s
enough to go around the world twice.

The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it’s hollow!

The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.

The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.

The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away!
(140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) That’s the distance to the giant
Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray “cloud” almost
directly overhead in a clear night sky.

The average person has at least seven dreams a night.

Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

Your brain is 80% water.

85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.

Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as
your foot.

A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!

Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.

You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.

There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the
time you reach adulthood you only have 206.

The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear!

Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!

When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep,
because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending,
sitting, and moving you have done!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The average growth of hair is half an inch per month.

If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long.

Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest muscles in your
body. 

Dumb trivia quiz questions with the answers.

 
The average person does what thirteen times a day?
A: Laughs
The Average American does what 22 times a day?
A:  Opens Fridge
On Sunday in Florida it is illegal for a single woman to do what?
A:  Skydive
What is Johnny Depp afraid of?
A: Clowns
Washington police officers get a half hour class in how to what?
A:  Sit Down
In California you can't legally buy a mousetrap without having a what?
A:  Hunting License
Who said "I've never had an accident worth talking about”?
A:  Captain E J Smith of the Titanic
In the French vineyards, it's illegal to do what?
A:  Land a Flying Saucer
In Texas it's illegal to swear in front of a what?
A:  Corpse
Coprastastaphobia is the fear of what?
A:  Constipation
What type of sportsman are most likely to get diseased anuses or rectums?
A:  Water Skiers
In South Dakota it's illegal to fall down and sleep where?
A: In a Cheese Factory
It's illegal in Georgia to do what with a fork?
A:  Eat fried chicken
In Blythe Ca. you can't wear cowboy boots unless you own at least 5 what?
A: 5 Head of cattle
In Kansas it's illegal to eat cherry pie with what?
A:  Ice Cream
The first puck used In the game of ice hockey game, what was the first puck used made out
of?
A: Frozen cow manure
What ailment kills the most fruit flies?
A:  Constipation
It's illegal in Texas to put what on your neighbors Cow?
A: Graffiti
A law in Illinois prohibits men from doing what in public?
A:  Having an erection
In Minnesota it is illegal to tease what type of animal?
A:  Skunk