ü In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
ü On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
ü On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
ü Ninety percent of New York City cabbies have recently arrived immigrants.
ü Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
ü Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
ü It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
ü Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
üA snail can sleep for three years.
ü No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
ü Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
ü Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
ü The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)
ü In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
ü TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
ü "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
ü If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches
tall.
tall.
ü A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
ü The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
ü Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
ü The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
ü The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
ü Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
ü Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
- The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."