Wednesday 18 May 2011

Cool Facts (found across the internet)

This is an interesting list of cool and weird facts:
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  • Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
  • By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
  • Rats and horses can't vomit.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  • Cats urine glows under a black light.
  • Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
  • The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. (Try 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.
  • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
  • Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  • In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  • A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
  • 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
  • It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Please dont try to!)
  • A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
  • A shrimp's heart is in their head.
  • People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.

1 comment:

  1. hahaha!!i wonder who invented the cigarette lighter!!

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