Ø Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Ø The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Ø Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
Ø You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Ø A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Ø Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
Ø Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Ø The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
Ø When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
Ø Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Ø "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
Ø Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
Ø The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
Ø Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
Ø "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
Ø Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
Ø The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
Ø If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Ø China has more English speakers than the United States
Ø Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Ø Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Ø The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turi-Pukakpikima ungahoronukupoka iwhe nuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill
Ø If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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