177More Facts

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo
Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the
bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is
enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.
That's the opposite of the norm.

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so
they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that
order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go
instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345,
678, 987, 654, 321.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

38. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

39. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

40. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

41. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

42. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

43. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

44. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

45. There are more chickens than people in the world.

46. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

47. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

48. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is
49. "s ub c ont in ent al".

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

51. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30
feet.

52. 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.

53. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

54. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

55. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

56. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it
was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.

57. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English
language.

58. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered
after 38 minutes.

59. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

60. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

61. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

62. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.

64. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

65. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

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

67. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

68. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next
time you chop onions.

69. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed
convenient!

70. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

71. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

72. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

73. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

74. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each
stamp.

75. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

76. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

77. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold
water.

78. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

79. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

80. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

81. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

82. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

83. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass
through the system and be excreted.

84. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

85. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

86. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left
foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

87. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

88. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas
bubbles bursting.

89. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

90. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

91. A snail can sleep for three years.

92. All Polar bears are left-handed.

93. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first-class.

94. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

95. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

96. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of
age.

97. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

98. Butterflies taste with their feet.

99. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
100.Cat's urine glows under a black light.

101.China has more English speakers than the United States.

102.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

103.Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

104.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

106.February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

107.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

108.'I am' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

109.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet,
two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

110.If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of
the rate of reproduction.

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

112.If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

113.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.

114.In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and
eyelashes.

115.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

116.More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

117.No word in the English language rhymes with month.

118.Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

119.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

120.One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied
against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

121.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

122.Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

123.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do

124.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

125.Starfish haven't got brains.

126.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

127.The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

128.The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

129.The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it
burns.

130.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

131.The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat
for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.

The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.

The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.

132.The human brain is about 85% water.

133.The human eyes can distinguish about 17,000 different colors.

134.The human head weighs 7 pounds.

135.The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.

136.The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.

137.The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!

138.The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot
walk.

139.The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
140.The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup,
sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and
substituted ice cream.

141.The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.

142.The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's
route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to
Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.

143.The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created
by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).

144.The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.

145.The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.

146.The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football
field.

147.The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

148.The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.

149.The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.

150.The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.

151.The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.

152.The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.

153.The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18
inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.

154.The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

155.The kilt was invented by a English gentleman who came to Scotland to open a factory because
he got tired of his Scottish workers showing up in a long tunic with a belt (they couldn't afford
pants). Rather than raise wages so they could afford pants he invented the kilt which is just a
lot of fabric and they could afford that. The kilt did not become a symbol of clan pride until the
English banned the kilt in Scotland. Then it became part of national pride to wear the newly
invented clan plaids.
156.The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

157.The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates
from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the
eyes of half the village.

158.The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.

159.The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.

160.The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost
blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million
years.

161.The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than
the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.

162.The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3
quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).

163.The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.

164.The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City,
AZ in 1971.

165.The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

166.The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It’s 20’ 2” high
and 21’ 8” in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it
cracked before it was installed.

167.The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8
inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to
hard-boil.

168.The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.

169.The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in
diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm
cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

170.The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

171.The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
 172.The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

173.The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.

174.The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It
was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.

175.The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.
176.The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150
pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest
organ at 384 ounces.

177.The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.

7 Don’ts After a Meal

* Don't smoke - Experiment from experts proves that smoking a
cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances
of cancer is higher).
* Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after
meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take
fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.

* Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of

acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we
consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.

* Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will
easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.

* Don't bathe - Bathing

will cause the increase of blood flow to
the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach
will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in
our stomach.

* Don't walk about -

People always say that after a meal walk a
hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not
true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb
the nutrition from the food we intake.

* Don't sleep immediately

- The food we intake will not be able
to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our
intestine.

10 Classic Definitions
1. Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.

2. Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day
test.
3. Marriage: It’s an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her
master.

4. Divorce: Future tense of marriage.

5. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students
without passing through “the minds of either”.

6. Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

7. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest
piece.

8. Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power.

9. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.

10. Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.