ashley_morris22
Well-Known Member
its friday and im board
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. ... Ok a lot of people have been bustin on me with this one since North America and South America obviously don't start with the same letter as they end with. I duno how to rephrase it but just assume i am referring to "America." FYI The reason this took so long to correct was because i lost the program/files i used to make this site (hence no updates) and had to learn to read html to write this.
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
- Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
- Cows have four stomachs.
- Cows and horses sleep standing up.
- If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
- The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
- The oldest person to live was Jeanne Louise Calment, she lived for a whopping 122 years until she died of smoking related complications. Don't Smoke!
- If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.
- Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America. In fact, he didn't even come close.
- There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.
- There is no ice covering Iceland.
- MacDonalds fries are made with beef flavoring. mmmmmmm.
- The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
- Latin is a dead language.
- Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.
- Dogs can't decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.
- The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
- Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
- Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.
- No president of the United states was an only child.
- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
- The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- The South Pole was reached for the first time on 14 December 1911 by a team of explorers led by Roald Amundsen.
-Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
- In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.
- The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.
- All pyrimids were bright white.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- 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.
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- You can't fold of piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Don't believe me? Try it.
- If you strech your arms straight out as far as you can, thats about how tall you are. Try it.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. Try it!
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. ... Ok a lot of people have been bustin on me with this one since North America and South America obviously don't start with the same letter as they end with. I duno how to rephrase it but just assume i am referring to "America." FYI The reason this took so long to correct was because i lost the program/files i used to make this site (hence no updates) and had to learn to read html to write this.
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
- Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
- Cows have four stomachs.
- Cows and horses sleep standing up.
- If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
- The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
- The oldest person to live was Jeanne Louise Calment, she lived for a whopping 122 years until she died of smoking related complications. Don't Smoke!
- If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.
- Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America. In fact, he didn't even come close.
- There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.
- There is no ice covering Iceland.
- MacDonalds fries are made with beef flavoring. mmmmmmm.
- The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
- Latin is a dead language.
- Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.
- Dogs can't decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.
- The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
- Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
- Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.
- No president of the United states was an only child.
- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
- The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- The South Pole was reached for the first time on 14 December 1911 by a team of explorers led by Roald Amundsen.
-Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
- In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.
- The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.
- All pyrimids were bright white.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- 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.
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- You can't fold of piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Don't believe me? Try it.
- If you strech your arms straight out as far as you can, thats about how tall you are. Try it.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. Try it!
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