Wednesday, July 16, 2008 @6:29 PM
Facts
When you hold a sea shell up to your ear, thats not the ocean. Its the sound of the blood in your head.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
When you sneeze your heart stops.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
If you keep your eyes open by force (when sneezing), they can pop out.
The greatest recorded number of children one mother had was 69 children.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
It is legal to be a prostitute in Sienna, Italy if your name is Mary.
There are insects living in your eyebrows
During ketchup manufacturing hundreds of bugs are squashed.
The juice that comes out of a ketchup bottle is their squashed figures.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die, if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.