
08-23-2008, 05:43 AM
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BizHat Geek
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Amazing Facts
- A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting.
- A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
- The lung fish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
- The bark of an older red wood tree is fire proof.
- The average American consumes nine pounds of food additives every year.
- 7000 new insects species are discovered every year.
- The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap
- Barbie’s fill name is babra Millicent Roberts.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
- Pearls melt in vinegar
- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs..
- Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
- Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
- POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
- KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
- ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
- OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
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