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Did you know?…Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
…23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people
sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
…In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
…More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or
received a telephone call.
…The "sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick" is said to be the toughest tongue
twister in the English language.
… The Eiffel Tower in P
aris
weighs over 1000 elephants.
… In 1879, a mail service in
Belgium
employed 37 cats to carry bundles of letters to villages around the
town of
Liege
, this experiment was shorted-lived as the cats proved
thoroughly undisciplined. Just plain weird…even by my standards.
… The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69!
The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly
4 sets of quadruplets. Even in the days before IVF!
… Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus
…13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese…
yummy=)
…The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in
China
in 1910.
…If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute,
divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature
in celcius degrees… How do they know that?
…Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don’t have eyes.
Eeewwwwww! Hehehe!=)
…Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion.
Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.
…Walt Disney’s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney
logo. He was also impotent. Isama daw ba yun! =)
…The Dutch town of
Leeuwarden
can be spelled 225 different ways-
1. Leeuwaarden
2. Leewaarden
3. Leewarden
4. Leuwarden
5. leuwaardenn
6. Leuuwarrden……
224.
Bradford
…Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it! Joke lang po! =)
…The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II
who fathered over 160 children.
…Duelling is legal in
as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
…Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
…In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
…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 recieved in battle;
if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
…Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
…The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it. Yikes! Fave ko pa rin ‘to! =)
Did you know?
…101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features
with both parents that are present and don’t die during the movie.
…You’re most likely to win the National Lottery (UK) if you buy your ticket on
a Saturday rather than a Wednesday. Because you are more likely to die
before the number draw than win.
… In
York
, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow
(except on Sundays)
…On average, 90% Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas
only 80% American teenagers can speak fluent English.
(Just in case you didnt know, English is not the first langauge of The Netherlands.)
…In Texas, a recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their
victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature
of the crime to be committed. Only in
Texas!
….No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
…The people who make school kitchens, also make electric chairs.
… The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
…"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
…The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter in the English language.
…1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else……
…An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
… All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately
6.25 Euro
…In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for
the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.
…You are most likely to be murdered or raped by a family member or a close friend
(98% of all murders). Whereas being murdered by a derranged lunatic
down a dark alley is very rare.
…Bill "Four eyes" Gates has enough money to buy every house in
Alaska
(& accdg to Bob Ong, he owns the MOST INTELLIGENT HOUSE! Right, Hapi? =)
…M
exico City s
inks about 10 inches a year
…It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Next time you feel a sneeze coming
try it!
…The expression "to get fired" comes from long, long ago. When clans wanted to
get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down.
…The word ‘corr’ actually means ‘odd’ in Irish.
… L
os Angeles
‘ full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los Angeles
de Porciuncula". In English this means ‘The City of Angels’ Naks! Magandang movie po
ito ni Pretty Meg! =)
…In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar.
=)
Paraguay
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