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50 Interesting Facts
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!!
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May 3rd, 2006 at 6:00 am
Didn’t bother to check these out, did you?
Just for example:
#6 - see http://www.snopes.com/history/titanic/sos.asp
#12 - http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/42384
Some are true, some aren’t, but your list isn’t very reliable, I’d say.
May 7th, 2006 at 12:48 am
#43 is incorrect for two reasons.
It is mizaru, kikazaru and iwazaru.
And, they are not names but they are simply the classical Japanese words for don’t see, don’t hear, don’t say.
May 14th, 2006 at 4:31 am
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
Incorrect, the skin retracts after death, giving the impression of growth.
#9 says
“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.”
but #42 says
“The average person laughs 13 times a day.”
June 16th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
#26, google is the name of a search engine. Googol is the name of a number with 100 zeros after it
1 googol = 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
June 19th, 2006 at 5:38 am
#32. hair and nails dont grow after you die, the skin srinks slightly to give the appearence of growth.
June 21st, 2006 at 6:35 am
Kara are you stupid or just playing being stupid..
Anyway i DO believe you are like retarded or somthing
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Amusing, but the accuracy of these “facts” is very questionable. For example, #25: Depending on who you ask, the original lion’s name was either “Slats” (his trainer’s name was Volney) or “Cairbre”. The latter story places the lion’s birth in Dublin Zoo, Ireland.
In all, there have been at least five lions who have been the MGM lion. Any MGM lion is referred to (unimaginatively enough) as “Leo”.
June 24th, 2006 at 5:23 am
Hey Anthem, it looks like Kara isn’t the retarded one. Since she happens to be right with both her comments, and since you can’t spell worth shit, it looks like you’re the stupid one. Go away and quit bothering the world with your mindless ramblings.
June 24th, 2006 at 6:18 am
I believe it takes closer to a minute for blood to completely circulate.
June 24th, 2006 at 7:55 am
The human tongue IS NEVER GERM FREE……EVER!
I don’t know which is more germful, the hands or the mouth, but you can clean your hands, not your mouth.
Kids, when there is white on your tongue, it is called Thrush, and it is a fungus: Candida albicans.
Go see a doctor.
att
Dr. Schenk
Internal Medicine
June 24th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
The Colgate note is only PARTLY accurate. “Hang yourself” would be “Cuelgate” or using the infinitive as imperative (sometimes done in Spanish), “Colgarte.” “Colgate” is an unfortunate amalgam of the two possible forms for giving such an order, but does NOT mean what you indicate it means. Look-up “subnormal” in a web-translator.
June 24th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Actually, hair does grow after death, but only if you die head in some water or something. This keeps the skin humid enough and hair can keep growing for 2-3 days.
June 25th, 2006 at 7:17 am
49. is also nonsense
June 26th, 2006 at 1:56 am
The lion still lives at the Dublin Zoo. I was there two years ago and saw him there. Don’t recall the name though.
June 26th, 2006 at 5:25 am
“The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.”
False. There is also the word “fast”. It can mean either “quick” or “motionless”, as in the phrase “hold fast.”
#49 is entirely false. The appearance of the horse has nothing to do with the manner of death.
And all of the other corrections that other people are making are entirely true. You need to get a new list of so-called “facts.”
June 26th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
All bats or just the bats that live with you in the “batcave” under your parents house?
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:02 am
At least they didn’t put in that stupid “A ducks quack doesn’t echo” one.
July 10th, 2006 at 9:21 am
#51: it took me 20 minutes to read this
August 5th, 2006 at 12:30 am
MGM lion alive 2 years ago ?
Not even in the Guiness bokk oif records … it should be aged around 60 !
please check carefully, and don’t throw urban legends …
August 5th, 2006 at 12:34 am
check done : MGM was created 1924 . Leo was an adult ( that’s 3 years old minimum ) . Two years ago, that 80 years old … for a lion !!! ggrrrreeeaaatt !!!
Actually, its ROOAARRR is a fake : it was created in dubbing studio …
October 31st, 2006 at 7:52 am
For “greymase”
Colgate means actually “go hang yourself” but in ARGENTINA Spanish, “cuélgate” is in the other countries like mexico, peru , venezuela etc, but only changes in Argentina
November 20th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
200 million couples make LOVE! EVERYDAY! Awesome……
January 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
200 Million couples make love 200 billion times a day.
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
#3 - MYTH
#4 - MYTH
#6 - MYTH
#12 - MYTH
#32 - MYTH
#40 - MYTH
#49 - MYTH
These are only the ones I know to be false, I am very dubious about several of the other ‘Facts’.
I dont understand why people would post these myths as ‘facts’. Countless resources describe them as myths - I think people who publish ‘facts’ have a repsonsibility to at least check their ‘facts’ before they do so.
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 am
I thought that all of these “facts” where really interesting, yet questionable. I liked them.
March 30th, 2007 at 1:49 am
i luv it. i luv it alot
May 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am
as far as why they are posted as fact, the definition of fact is a piece of information that can be checked for validity. all of these things can be checked, therefore they are fact. :]
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
hahahahahahaha…. oooo hahahahaha
May 8th, 2007 at 5:08 am
I LOVE YOU BIANCA !!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU TO ALLYSA
May 16th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
After reading Anthem’s comment, I cannot help but think that there are still stupid people making stupid comments without knowing what they are talking about. Idiot.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 am
did you know that the human nose takes 40 days to come off a dead body, and supposively it took god 40 days to make it (maybe it means it takes 40 days in the womb)
July 5th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
kartik is my love
July 15th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
One-third of your facts are LIES!!! Next time,bring some sensible lies.
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:45 am
Why is everyone being so mean to each other? i agree that the facts are not so factish but really, you dont have to fight over it.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:47 am
well…i not at all believe on the fact 37 coz nothings in the hand of humans! it’s all in hands of god he can call 1465876809680587098 these many people towards him(i.e can die) or even send 5708597528058802808797597(i.e can born) these many to world…never circulate useless facts all over the world!!!
September 14th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Nevellian needs to check his “facts” on that comment as well. Show me god.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:37 am
I think these are pretty damn cool.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I think That We Should All Just Get Some Lives And Stop Fighting Over Some Stupid Facts
K, thanks
October 1st, 2007 at 5:38 pm
some of these facts are wrong, eg. it takes at least 45sec. to 1min. for your blood to circulate.
October 11th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
you can see the stars in the day time from the bottom of a well, and eskamos dont gamble.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:07 am
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November 13th, 2007 at 7:13 am
i was really confused which of the facts to believe now…!
November 16th, 2007 at 8:16 am
ithought these were fun to read im not sure theyre all accurate though but what should i know im only not goin to tell the world my age that made no sense oh well so these were interesting but im not sure if theyre all factual its cool to read though i read something about a pigs orgasim lasting up to half and hour it was a long time ago though im not even sure look it up on google and then choose the one that was on top of this website its FUNNY and interesting im not sure if its accurate either but it’s cool to read
November 17th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
a kangaroo cannot jump 30 feet an average door in a house is 6 ft 6 inches so times that by 4 then ull see how far 30 ft is
November 20th, 2007 at 7:41 am
err block from school websites why? stupid so is marc
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
some of the facts are wrong eg #3
December 6th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
#51 Any Paper existing in this universe cannot be folded more than 8 times. Dare to fold more than that I bet you will fail.
December 8th, 2007 at 2:15 am
i think that some of you people need too get a life and stop fighting over some TRUE facts!!!!
December 11th, 2007 at 10:26 am
haha.
i like how everyone is fighting over some stupid facts.
and this person should correct.
thats all.
fuckers.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
There may be some mistakes or myths, but I really enjoyed it. Good job!
December 18th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
fact #51 is a nice one
December 26th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Ha Ha Ha, interesting to c people fighting against funny interesting facts……
December 28th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Why Fact 51 seems so realistic though it needs to be checked.
Some one from NASA here??
December 28th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Fact 51 is a shit.
I tried it with toilet paper and it failed!!……………………
I am not working with NASA
December 29th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Fact 51 is a fail.
Watch Mythbusters.
December 31st, 2007 at 12:10 am
Appreciate the person who collected alll this info….
Its up to u if u wanna believe or not..
January 8th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
if u pick ur nose 7 times a day ur nose will release snot hormones that can sometimes fall in ur food which can attract animals such as dogs,birds nd rats
January 10th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Who cares whether or not these facts were true or false. The person who posted them obviously has too much time on her hands and so do you people freaking out about the validity of each one. Get off the internet you geeks!
January 12th, 2008 at 3:01 am
#38 Colgate in spanish is not “go hang yourself” it means “go hang it yourself”
January 21st, 2008 at 2:28 am
#40 is a big fat NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAT ABOUT DA PIDGIN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!??????!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
well im in school reading these facts and they are wierd
i dont know if they are “true” but they are something to think about……..
Ummm can you maybe put more cuz you repeat a lot through all of your sites…….
yeah…umm, thank
Love you bunches
January 25th, 2008 at 6:14 am
yes actaully your hair/nails do continue to grow after dealth.even when you are alive the result of hair/nail growth is dead cells escaping your body through pores in your skin.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
#25 - that isn’t a Lion at all - its a fur seal - lions don’t actually roar like that at all - anyone would know that if you had actually worked with them
January 31st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Does it really matter if they are not all true
Get a life god, you’re all just trying to sound clever.
‘Oh this isnt right’..’Ohh no way’.
Get over yourself
Goodbye… (:
February 6th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Statistics have shown that 78.7% of all statistics were made up on the spot!! statistically speaking of course… haha
February 8th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Emanuel…
I’m from Argentina.. and what you said is not true.
colgate means go hang yourself
colgalo means go hang it yourself
so you’re wrong about that! therefore.. #38 is true
February 12th, 2008 at 6:20 am
i think that these are very interesting facts and that some of them may not be true but the ones that are are nice to know.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am
About the whole “colgate” thing:
It CAN mean “hang yourself” in the imperative (command) form in countries like Argentina and Uruguay where the stress of the verb is on the “a” and therefore the “o” does not dipthong to “ue”.
It would NOT mean “hang it” because there is no “it” indicated.
Che, colgate!
February 16th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Do u know a cigrette take away 14 min frm life.a cokin 1 hour and a working day 8 hour.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:33 am
if you fart sneeze and cough all at the same time you will die
February 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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March 6th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
lol these are funny.
you need more.
and try to make them actual facts.
March 9th, 2008 at 4:28 am
oh my word people!
PLEASE STOP ARGUING!! although they might be questionable, there’s no need to be so mean. be thankful that someone spent their time to write these ‘facts’ for you and in future, keep your comments to yourselfios:o)
x
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:18 am
Hey Britt45 (Comment 58),
Way to be completely hypocritical. Bitching at people for having too much time on their hands, when obviously you do to if you were bored enough to read all these comments, and then post your own comment. “Hey Kettle, yeah it’s me Pot. You’re black”. Think about it next time you comment on something.
Thanks,
Butler.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Nevellian - What a thing to say in a discussion about FACTS. Hahaha.
Some of these “facts” are questionable, either way, most enjoyable!
That is some bitchin’ Lion though, if he is alive?!
April 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
i think someone just made this stuff up………. and i’m dissappointed cos i thought number 49 was true and i couldnt wait to act all smart and say it to my friends….. but im not a random made up fact spreader!!! also lads…….. chill
April 11th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Its interesting if our brain cell die on sneezing…Is it true?
April 27th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Why do people have to spoil stuff, knowing these things were facts was quite interesting thanks alot you twats
May 9th, 2008 at 6:01 am
This site is so cool!!!! I LOVE things like this!!!!!!