Amazing Facts!

[Belinda]

Hi All,I thought i'd have a look on the net for some Amazing facts to add to Lins list.Like Lisa i have to type them all out because i dont know how to copy and paste( my son explained it to me)I still cant do it.....A cats purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White......The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrent Qwert yuiop,who left his "signature"on the key board.My son has just shot me down and told me the typewriter was invented before that with an ABC keyboard which was later changed for the easier Qwerty.Can anyone prove the fact i found,or prove Jamie right? x Belinda

[Belinda]

Hi All,Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing,as it can blow your eyeballs out.LOL x Belinda

[Belinda]

Hi All,This is one for me.WATCHING AN HOUR-LONG SOAP OPERA BURNS MORE CALORIES THAN WATCHING A THREE HOUR BASEBALL GAME.ANOTHER ONE FOR ME(not that i ever smoked camels)UNTILL 1978,CAMEL CIGARETTES CONTAINED MINUTE PARTICLES OF REAL CAMELS....ARE THESE FACTS FOR REAL?

[Belinda]

Hi All,This one im sure most of you will be trying tonight. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain,staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.... I often wondered what city fans had to smile about. LOL x Belinda

[OLLY]

hiya belinda
there`ll be a big mad rush to the paint shop now
after some blue, to paint the ceiling, should
imagine that will be the women yeh ?

olly.

[tony38337]

Hi Belinda,

As an ex smoker and well acquainted with Camel cigarettes I can tell you that the minute particles have to be camel sh1t!

X Tony T.

[frankwalsh]

Hi all have never been a smoker, could it all be bull s h i t?!!

[Belinda]

williamollerenshaw said:

hiya belinda
there`ll be a big mad rush to the paint shop now
after some blue, to paint the ceiling, should
imagine that will be the women yeh ?

olly.

Hi Olly,well,women do seem to do most of the work in the house ;D ;D x Belinda

[Belinda]

tony38337 said:

Hi Belinda,

As an ex smoker and well acquainted with Camel cigarettes I can tell you that the minute particles have to be camel sh1t!

X Tony T.

Hi Tony,If there was ever a reason to give up smoking ,Thats it x Belinda

[lin]

handy said:

Wow Lin, more memories brought back for me. I was a little shop assistant in many years ago. I worked at a shop called Hugh Fay's in Clayton on the corner of North Road, and just about everthing got weighed and put into thick paper bags. I was scared stiff using the bacon slicer and God the smell from yeast made me feel ill. When I think back to those days we were not allowed to leave our work place till we had scrubbed all the counters down and re hung bacon in the back rooms. At times it was a nightmare as many a drunk would come in and try to ask for half an ounce ? and stand there for ages as they could never remember what they had come in for.
Still it was nice at times and I only left when I started my family.
Love Pat xx

Hi Pat, it's surprising what you read on here that brings back memories I remember those big old bacon slicers, my brother, Joe, used to work one of them when he worked in Wythenshawe, if I remember rightly he cut himself on it? and do you remember one of the workers used to ride around on a bike with a basket on the front with food for delivering? (open all hours) springs to mind...

[bodzy]

This is the worlds most easiest Quiz ..............

I want you to write your answers down honestly , no going on the internet to check ,
cos your only cheating yourself try and be straight If you truthfully get ,five out of ten ,
you've passed.

1 How long did the Hundred Year war last ?

2 What country makes Panamar Hats ?

3 From which animal do we get Cat Gut from ?

4 In what month do the Russians celebrate the October Reverloution ?

5 What is a camel's hair brush made of ?

6 The Canary Isles are named after what animal ?

7 What was King George's first name ?

8 What colour is a Purple Finch ?

9 Where are Chinese Gooseberrys from ?

10 What colour is the Black Box in a commercial airplane


All done


Keep the answers and I'll post my answers tomorrow

[lin]

The proof of a liquor was supposed to be a sign of quality of the beverage. Supposedly a small amount of a distilled beverage was poured on some black powder explosive. If the powder did not ignite, there was not enough alcohol in the liquor, if it exploded then there was too much alcohol. If it just burned that was 100% "proof" of good liquor. It turns out that was about 50% alcohol, therefore proof is twice the percentage of alcohol. Cheers.

[lin]

1. The Golden Gate Bridge connects two different areas that are moving toward each other. At one time they were 1,000 miles apart.

2. The 20 million Mexican free-tail bats from Bracken Cave, Texas eat 250 tons of insects nightly.

3. A Positive Giant is a lightning strike that hits the ground up to 20 miles away from the storm. Because it seems to strike from a clear sky it is known as "A Bolt From The Blue". These Positive Giant flashes strike between the storm's top "anvil" and the Earth and carry several times the destructive energy of a regular lightning strike.

4. Scientists have successfully revived some bacterial spores that were found enclosed in amber. The spores were at least 25 million years old.

5. In 1918 a flu epidemic killed 548,000 people in the United States. Worldwide over 20 million people died. About half of the deaths were of people between 20 and 40 years old.

6. The plant with the largest leaves is a kind of palm tree called raffia (RAF-ee-uh). It has leaves that are up to 65 feet (20 m) long. That's about as long as two school busses parked end to end.

7. 1816 has been called the "Year Without Summer." Canada and the northeastern U.S. experienced cold and snow throughout the summer months. Dust from a volcano in the Dutch East Indies blocked part of the sun's warmth.

8. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.

9. There are microbes whose optimal growth temperature is above 100 degrees C(the boiling point of water).

10. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.

[lin]

1. The amount of oil that is used worldwide in one year is doubling every ten years. If that rate of increase continues and if the world were nothing but oil, all the oil would be used up in 400 years.

2. A person's heart beats about 100,000 times a day. About 9000 quarts of blood move through the heart every day.

3. A woodchuck hibernates to survive the winter when food is scarce. Its heartbeat slows to

4 beats a minute. Breathing slows to just one breath per minute. Its body uses so little energy that its body fat is enough chemical fuel to last through the winter.

5. In the ocean it is totally dark at depths greater than 600 meters. About half the animals found below that depth glow. The light serves to attract prey and mates.

6. A person sheds about 50 million dead skin cells every day. In about 4 years a person sheds their own body weight in skin cells.

7. An average size room contains about 90 pounds of air.

8. Biologists estimate that somewhere between 500,000 and 5,000,000 marine species have yet to be discovered and described.

9. The U.S. has the world's most violent weather. In a typical year, the U.S. can expect some 10,000 violent thunderstorms, 1000 tornadoes and several hurricanes. In a 24 hour period on April 3-4, 1974, a record 148 tornadoes tore through the midwest killing 309 people and injuring five thousand.

10. One square mile of rainforest has more types of butterflies than all of North America.

[lin]

1. If water, instead of fuel, were pumped by the three space shuttle main engines, an average family-sized swimming pool could be drained in 25 seconds.

2. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels(tubes) that carry blood to all parts of the body. The human body contains about 60,000 miles of capillaries. That's enough to reach around the earth 2 1/2 times.

3. Bamboo is a type of grass. It can grow as fast as 3 feet in a day.

4. Some lizards and starfish when attacked can loose a body part and later the missing part will grow back. The predator may be distracted by getting the part and allow the lizard or starfish to escape.

5. If all the ice in Antartica melted the level of the oceans would rise 200 feet. About one fourth of the land area of the world would be flooded.

6. If a sole(a type of fish) lays upon a chess board it can change the coloring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.

7. The human body makes about two million red blood cells every second.

8. Water is the only material that exists naturally in three states- liquid, solid and gas(water vapor).

9. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than has any other animal. Mosquitos spread yellow fever and malaria when they bite people.

10. Light is thought to be the fastest thing in the universe. It travels 186,000 miles each second. Still it takes about eight minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth.

11. An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel.

[lin]

1. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

2. Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.

3. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb.

4. Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!!

5. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

6. The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

7. The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

8. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

9. There was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.

10. The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal."

11. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and ... no one knows why.~ MYTH everything echoes. University students have recorded a ducks echo. It is usually so quiet we cannot hear it.

12. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Maybe if said fast.

13. Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired."

[lin]

1. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.

2. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour & if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

3. For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.

4. Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.

5. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."

6. The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

7. The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch)

8. More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world

9. The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows".

10. The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.

[lin]

1. The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.

2. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging," eveything else was allowed.

3. A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.

4. The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away.

5. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

6. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body.

7. A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe
is called " a lunt "

8. The name "Pinocchio" is from Tuscany, Italy and means "pine nut" or "kernel".

9. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy

10. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.

[lin]

1. The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.

2. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy

3. The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero 4.Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.

4. Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.

5. When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco.

6. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

7. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

8. Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

9. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

[lin]

1. The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world

2. The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

3. All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split)

4. Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott"

5. The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to
exercise naked

6. Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak
properly until he was 9 years old.

7. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

8. The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres

9. Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."

10. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

[lin]

1. When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours

2. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.

3. When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY

4. On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000

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

6. While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85

7. Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries

8. A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F

9. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor

10. In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it

[frankwalsh]

Hi Lin, the dot on the I is called a tittle and the saying is tittle tattle, which means trivial talk. and while I,m on here don't show your face Migky, keep them in suspense!!.F.W.

[lin]

Hi Frank, that's correct

Migky don't listen to Frank, he'll just get you deeper into trouble ;D

[lin]

1. A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet

2. Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet

3. Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch

4. The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.

5. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched

6. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."

7. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

8. A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records]

9. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

10. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal.

[lin]

1. The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.

2. The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.

3. The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France)

4. The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million

5. Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries

6. Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds

7. The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first

8. During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room

9. The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man

10. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.

[lin]

1. Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music

2. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th

3. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

4. Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur

5. Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever

6. A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water

7. If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.

8. The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact??

9. The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)

10. A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts

[lin]

1. Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.

2. Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.

3. Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.

4. Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada

5. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

6. Your fingernails grow 4 times faster than your toe nails

7. Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second

8. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person

9. About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you

10. The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses.

[lin]

1. The African baobab tree (adansonia digitata) blossom opens only to moonlight and it is pollinated by bats .. the fruit bats.

2. Clint Eastwood's roll of Dirty Harry was turned down by Paul Newman, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra.

3. According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK

4. The life of an eyelash is about 6 weeks.

5. Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.

6. The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.

7. The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.

8. The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.

9. In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'

10. Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush.

[lin]

1. Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species

2. January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!

3. You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle

4. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!

5. The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.

6. You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily

7. The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700

8. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air

9. A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday

10.There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people

[lin]

1. Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law

2. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain

3. An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight

4. The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.

5. Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much

6. In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)

7. In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.

8. Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.

9. In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.

10. Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.