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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!!
Other Resources: Jagad Guru - Spirit is the attractive element and video: The life particle is alive, whereas matter is dead.
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August 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Stop spreading ignorance, we already have enough as it is.
In addition to the myths already stated, 31 isn’t a lie, but it isn’t completely true. The sound comes from dissolved gases coming out of solution when the synovial fluid (in between bones in joints) is expanded.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-makes-the-sound-when
August 29th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
funny & good facts
August 31st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
MAN ALL YOU GUYS COMMENTING ARE SO FUCKIN LAME….IDIOTS + NERDS!
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Man…reading the arguments are so funny, lmao…good facts btw and like they say… some could be questionable. =P
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 pm
I just had to leave a comment, i could not belive, to this date that there are 330 comments. I’m sure if people wanted to know actual facts that contained real information, they wouldn’t be on this website. Obviously this person only looked up info from other sources that weren’t accurate.
I Love Facebook, so go Fuck urself!_love to swear too!
September 8th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Chris123LFC Rule, if you are going to complain about a fact not being right, you should check into what you are saying, an average door height is 6′ 8″, not 6′ 6″. This is just for the guy with comment number 43.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
#1- i’m right handed and chew on my left side.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Um, anthem dont be so mean.
I READ THIS IN GEOGRAPHY CLASS ITS QUITE INTERESTING.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:43 am
awesome actually knew some of the stuff on there!! hahahahaa
September 11th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Number 26 is incorrect, a google is a number with 100 zeros, not one-million.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
All of the people on here that write to prove these facts wrong id just like to say this…
GET A FUCKIN LIFE! - A JOB! - A HOBBY! ANYTHING THAT STOPS YOU ACTING LIKE A MISERABLE OLD BASTARD PICKING FAULTS WITH EVRY FUCKING LITTLE THING YOU SEE!!!!!!!!!! U DONT LIKE THE FACTS OR DONT BELIEVE THEM? THEN DONT READ THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 11th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
awesome
hahah
September 15th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
fact #40 is true i checked it on the net they hear the object behind them they dont see it they hear it so stop fighting over it
September 18th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Most of the facts are wrong and it gives wrong information….Its a responsibility of a person who published this facts will check it first…
September 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Some of these facts are boring. Please add some new ones as much as possible.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
THE SUN IS VERY BRIGHT EVEN AT NIGHT.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:49 am
honestly, if you have enough time to complian about incorrect facts, make your own page! you dont need to fill pages with “mindless ramblings” that Jake had the pleasre of complaing about when he was doing it!
October 7th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Hey come on dont be so mean the person who made this list is prob young and didnt mean to mislead everyone - enjoy the list, take what you want from it and move on meanies
October 7th, 2009 at 3:38 am
i highhhly doubt ALL bats fly out the just the left side of a cave. grow up. PROVEEEEEEE ITTTTTTT.
October 8th, 2009 at 7:28 am
A google actually has 100 zeros after it. And instead of Colgate, why not “volvo” which means I return.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:41 am
I realize that some of these ‘facts’ are not true, but I do know that #49 IS true. I learned about this in school like, three times from different teachers when we were learning about different wars/battles. Check before you say it’s myth. ;D
October 12th, 2009 at 1:06 am
girraffe cleans its ears by its 21inches long tounge
October 15th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
like most poeple say your full of shit
October 18th, 2009 at 9:04 am
For all of u that are making comments correcting these facts please get lives cause if u have time to go around acting like smart asses correcting everyone u must have no lives nobody wants to hangout with a know it all jerk.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
For 26, the correct term is not a google, it is a googolplex
October 21st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
is wrong, since the command “go hang yourself” in spanish is spelled cuelgate, not colgate
October 24th, 2009 at 7:26 am
I laughed so hard when read the, “if you fart, sneeze, and cough all at the same time, you will die,” line. Don’t wanna try it
P.S. Whether it’s real or fake… it’s funny to read. Everybody count to ten (or twenty)
October 28th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
the 32 point is absulute wrong
October 28th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
very worst facts improve it please mix it some science facts like
1)goldfish has 3 seconds of memory span.
2)elephant is only animal that caannot walk backward. thats solve
give facts like tell me why fun facts it is best book ever
October 30th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
Actually, Google is a company. Googol is a number, and as stated above is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes
October 31st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
may be true and may not who cares at least they’re interestin
if they werent you’d not have bothered to write COMMENTS
November 1st, 2009 at 1:00 am
Peter Said:
September 8th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Chris123LFC Rule, if you are going to complain about a fact not being right, you should check into what you are saying, an average door height is 6? 8?, not 6? 6?. This is just for the guy with comment number 43.
The worst thing that Chris said is that 4 times 6′6″ is 30 feet when it actually only equals 26 feet!
November 5th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
fact: god does not exist. therefore there is no way that it is all up to god. uneducated idiot.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:39 am
The human mouth has probably the most germs…for a matter of fact in nursing school we learnt that if a human bites another human it gets infected faster than most animal bites..