Sunday, December 19, 2010

Fun Facts!

Here's some fun facts. Enjoy.

Princess Diana's favorite band was Duran Duran
8% of pet owners dress up their dogs and cats for Halloween
Non-dairy creamer is flammable
Average life expectancy worldwide: 66 years
The Chinese have been painting fingernails for 5000 years
Eyes change color after death, usually to a greenish-brown
Room temperature is 68 degrees F
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
Elvis Presley shared a bed with his mom until he reached puberty
Orchids release a chemical that makes bees drunk
Hair grows slower at night
In golf lingo, a putt on a hilly green is called a "Dolly Parton"
The first VCR, made in 1956, was about the size of a piano
It takes about 0.3 seconds to blink
Gray whales make the longest annual migration of any mammal--12000 miles round trip
The Milky Way galaxy is moving at 170 miles per second
Rabbits and hares never mate with each other
The Klingon Dictionary has sold over 250000 copies
All spiders are cannibals
At its thickest point, the ice in Antarctica is 15700 feet thick
Minimum wage in 1950 was 75 cents an hour
You have more nightmares when your bedroom is cold
Mark Wahlberg has three nipples
In her witchcraft trial, Joan of Arc was also charged with disobeying her parents
A mirage can be photographed
Nothing rhymes with orange, silver, or purple
Cockroaches have white blood
95% of us put our left sock on first
A page in a book is about 500,000 atoms thick
Rabbits can see forward and backward at the same time
It takes one drop of ocean water 1000 years to travel around the world

5 comments:

  1. oh my god. Princess Diana is my new fave, because Duran Duran is awesome!
    how can cream ever be non-dairy?
    and, if my eyes are already greenish brown, what colour will they turn?

    how did you gather all of this useful information, I feel like kidnapping you and going to starbucks so we can discuss all of this. haha.

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  2. Whoops. I meant creamer. Like for coffee.
    I have no idea.
    Read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Every page has a little fact on the bottom.
    I don't drink coffee, but kidnap away :-)

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  3. >>95% of us put our left sock on first

    Mind = blown. Never realized I did it until this.

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