... To lighten the mood a little, here are some fun random facts. Feel free
to add to them! )
The longest word in the English language is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
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 causes.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a
stoplight.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear
weapons combined.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more
like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital
patients.
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of
fresh water!
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on
the molars.
Only humans sleep on their backs.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter ?J?.
The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
In WWII the first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
A giraffe has a 20-inch black tongue. The tongue is black to prevent
sunburn, given the amount of time the giraffe spends sticking it out.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to
flow backwards!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the
engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete. He makes around $80 million per
year (or $219,000 per day).
In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent
Office that "everything that can be invented has already been invented."
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6
meters) in length.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
There is a law on the books of Detroit, Michigan that states that
"Alligators may not be tied to fire hydrants."
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
____________________ Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.