A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million
years since the moon has no atmosphere.
The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than
its army.
The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more
beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges
Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the
fingerprints of humans
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available.
(The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in
Portuguese".
Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from
their rural counterparts.
The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US
history.
Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt
on a cruise.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth
to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia
but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight
glasses of red wine.
As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of
addiction to the internet.
Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new
life
.
For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As
of 2006)
The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is
to control in the air.
Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression
by up to 25%.
The egg came first.
Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago,
showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.
Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's
cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street
advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric
kettle.
Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than
cow's milk
.
Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world
.
Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for
boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and
cooked pasta.
A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto
unknown animal and plant species.
The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads
died of lung cancer.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them
in public.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave
them off.
The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds
of insect parts a year. (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as
urban legends by many)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people) This fact is based on a study
that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain
enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the
first one.
During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their
death/concentration camps.
During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines
(precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the
Nazis.
The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And
Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946 (Thanks D.B. of AU)
The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight
of the human population.
The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in
the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of
Jesus Christ.
Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every
second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second.
Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading
this.
The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the
people that have died. Ever.
There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably
never heard of.
Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and
animals than to other plants.
A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in
Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra
Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true;
Joseph Swan did.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian
pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which
containing the letter "e."
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds
of meat.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a
bear is as tall as a giraffe.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per
hour.
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the
least used.
Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone
else, except the Catholic church.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and
sinking to the bottom.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the
engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and
figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel proved this wrong.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the
actual queen.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and
the rest of the day to yourself."
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the
Catholic Church.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47.
Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the
Union.
When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's
"White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United
States.
The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in
order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being
thrown from a horse.
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where
he would forget his brothers' names.
In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made
from baked oxen dung.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week.
Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the
jungle.
In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population
of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour. The order came after her
husband killing. (Moguls claim that 1.7 million were killed)
More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile
bodies.
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to
any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from
ailurophobia--fear of cats.
Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the
national slogan until 1956.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars
ever fought by the United States.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required
to pay a special tax.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and
Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The
Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is
called an okina).
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it
to do all over again: 80%.
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in
Courage."
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved
wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when
it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books
that would occupy the building.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--
Julius Caesar.
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 leg front leg in the air, the person
died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last
signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be
straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers
between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000
people had used the service.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original
containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled
Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British
attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the
national anthem
Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at
700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than
it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's
sensors so they don't know your there
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two
meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the
process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799,
physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove
plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications,
digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the
amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the
century
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question
attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant
ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of
which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking
its back
Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to
the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board
meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was
present at the meeting for 92 years.
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced
by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James
translation of the Bible.
The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch
in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by
man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The
efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at
the time was the fastest to dry.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of
them are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan
letters.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous':
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the
traffic light to change
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed
products
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory
disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the
population growth
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss,
actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end
of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would
kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over
the years though, it slanted into the X
Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the
word 'gadzooks'.
Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence
of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001.
Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time
when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case'
letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case'
letters
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would
pronounce it 'Bitch.'
From the book "Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose" by Joey Green.
Copyright 1995. Reprinted with permission.
For more alternative uses for products, visit www.wackyuses.com
I highly recommend visiting his Joey's site :-)
Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television
screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
Dissolves soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a used sheet of Bounce.
Freshens the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer
or hang one in the closet.
Prevents thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce to
eliminate the static cling on the thread before sewing.
Eliminates static cling from pantyhose. Rub a damp, used sheet of Bounce over the
hose.
Prevents musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage
before storing.
Freshens the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front sea
Cleans baked-on food from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in the pan, fill with water,
let sit overnight and sponge clean. The anti-static agents apparently weaken the
bond between the food and the pan while the fabric softening agents soften the
baked-on food.
Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket. Collects cat hair.
Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose
hairs.
Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
COCA COLA
Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl, Let the "real thing"sit for one
hour, then flush clean
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up
piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the
terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt
for several minutes.
To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes,
add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen
grease stains.
13...that's Maria's number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3
children in Fatima
on 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother
on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up
2+4+2+5 = 13
2+1+3+7 = 13
13+13=26
26 years of pontificate......
in the end......he died in 13th week of the year...and when you multiply the time
of his death 21 x 37...you will have 777
World Cup
Brazil last won the world cup in 1994. Before that they won it in 1970. Add 1970
and 1994, it equals 3964.
Germany last won in 1990. Before that they won in 1974. Add 1990 and 1974, it
equals 3964.
Argentina last won the world cup in 1986. Before that they won it in 1978. Add
1978 and 1986, it equals 3964.
So going by this logic, The winner of the 2002 world cup is the same as the 3964 -
2002 = 1962 world cup. The 1962 world cup was won by Brazil. It was really Brazil
who won!!!
Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the
dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with
basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus
it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to
develop bladder cancer.
Here is a list of what I thought very funny. I left it in the form that I
received it.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to
create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at
home...... maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What
the....?!")
A mantis breeder has assured me that you preying mantis can copulate with the
male's head still attached, even several times.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be
equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...lucky pig...
can you imagine??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a
pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next
life...quality over quantity)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that
out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about
that pig??)
• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed
on the moon.
• The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
• MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video Killed
the Radio Star' by the Bugles.
• There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
• The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the
population growth
•The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
• Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the
soil.
• Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not
want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.
• Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an
actress.
• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from
Public Libraries.
• Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
• Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for
some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey
Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't
actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named
Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the
name stuck.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
• From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to
conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.
• The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938
for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both
hands and feet.
• Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on
the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
• Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious
skull fractures
while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.
In a Flash
As storm clouds develop, the temperature at the top of the clouds becomes much
cooler than that at the bottom. For reasons that scientists still do not
understand, this temperature difference results in the accumulation of negatively
charged particles near the base and positively charged particles near the top of
the storm cloud. This buildup of electrical charge causes a high-voltage discharge
in the form of lightning. Who holds the record for surviving 7 lighting strikes
during his lifetime?