50 Interesting Facts

[fairytale00]

A compilation of 50 interesting facts.
Some (Many in fact) may be an already known fact. But the list is worth a look..

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Interesting stuff.... some of them seem true as far as I can say...

[Xylob the Destroyer]

14. Because most people are right-handed. When buttons were first invented they were a luxury - only the rich could afford clothing with buttons. Men dressed themselves, but the rich women hand hand-maidens to dress them and that's why buttons are on the left side of women's clothing - to make it easier for their right-handed servants.

32. Not true. Your skin sort of 'shrinks' back and makes it look like your hair and nails have grown.

34. Their purpose is sinister.

44. Because they lie more than men! :P

51. You cannot lick your own elbow.

[gadgetguy]

If 6 year olds laugh 300 time a day and adults laugh 15-100 times a day (9), then how can the average person only laugh 13 times a day (42)?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

Keep your logic to yourself and out of this silly thread!

[bendixG15]

If 6 year olds laugh 300 time a day and adults laugh 15-100 times a day (9), then how can the average person only laugh 13 times a day (42)?

The average person is not a 6 year old or an adult....must be something else.......

[Supreme2k]

I find the claim of these "facts" to be "interesting" highly dubious. Many of them are not even accurate.

[Supreme2k]

A compilation of 50 interesting facts.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
wrong


3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
wrong, unless you cover your eyes with the gum (but the, you're not chewing it)


7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.


10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
wrong. It is the sound of the wind/air traveling over the shell opening, somewhat like a flute


11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
wrong. Try looking here

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
well, duh. Men have a weiner and women have vagenius


18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
too broad. Navy blue can have the opposite effect.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
also too broad/generic. Just about every cell in your body dies constantly, while new ones grow and replenish them

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
another duh. Yahoo, magellan, Video and Help were also words with meanings before the invention of the internet.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
[b]definitions themselves don't really count as "interesting facts". Anagrams are words or phrases made by rearranging other words or phrases.[/url]

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
Back when I was a boy, comics cost a quarter. Now, they're $4

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Interesting fact: someone can count or has OCD

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
No

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Plus most insects, lizards, fish, etc. Oh, and that guy on the new Outer Limits who grew eyes on the back of his head from nanites.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
That's just what gingers want you to believe.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
[b]No. Pit-bulls and rottweilers.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

These internet chain letters suck. Most of those are just (disproved) old wives tales. Check out Snopes.com