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Funny Facts 4 - paklover - 01-20-2009 10:32 PM A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All babies are color blind when they are born. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Astronauts get taller when they are in space. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buttermilk does not contain any butter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleopatra married two of her brothers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Washington grew marijuana in his garden. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm X's original name is Malcolm Little. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nylon is made from coal and petroleum. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for ‘Ladies Love Cool James’. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reno, Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles, California. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'vintage date' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.