* The metal backs of iPods are made from recycled zippers.
* Eskimos don’t believe in bridges or tunnels.
* Every sixteen minutes, someone named Richard dies.
* Billy Bob Thornton’s grandfather was the first person to own a television.
* Dolphins kill more people annually than sharks and influenza combined.
* On a dare, former President Rutherford B. Hayes declared war on Chile for 17 minutes.
* The original title for Catcher in the Rye was Hey, Look, a Carousel!
* Professionals call the top socket on an electrical outlet the “Martha,†and the bottom socket the “Jasmine.â€
* In the archives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., there are two identical snowflakes preserved in a freezer.
* Three out of every ten nickels has been in someone’s mouth.
* If you hold one nostril closed for 72 hours, you will slowly lose the ability to see color. (Your sight will instantly return to normal when you release your nostril.)
* Wave a magnet at the lower left corner of a vending machine to receive a free soda.
* The glossy paper from the backs of stickers can be used to soothe sunburn.
* To be a train conductor, you have to cut off one of your own toes during a loyalty ritual.
* The Z in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zeppidemus.â€
* Jean shorts were invented three weeks prior to the invention of regular jeans.
* Whispering instead of talking on cell phones saves significant battery power.
* In Austria, the traditional Christmas colors are not red and greed, but purple and clear.
* Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase “Baby Mama†in a satirical poem published in Poor Richard’s Almanac.
* If you take the first letter of each word in the Monopoly board game instruction manual, they spell out an X-rated sentence.
* The original name for the laptop computer was “Hinged Smart Slab.â€
* The average person inhales 3 pounds of spider webs in his or her lifetime.
* When first introduced to the public, plastic laundry baskets cost $75 each.
* Winnie the Pooh started out as a non-fiction account of mental illness.
* Reading backwards for twenty minutes burns the same amount of calories as walking a half-mile.
* The Q in Q-tips stands for “quantum,†as the small bit of cotton on the tip contains more atoms than the entire human body.
* Revolving doors were first invented as a way to keep horses out of department stores.
* Peru and the moon weigh the same amount.
* Human beings and anteaters are the only animals that can snap their fingers.
* If you soak a baseball hat in coke, and then let it dry on someone’s head, over a 3-hour period the hat will shrink with skull-denting force, causing intense pain and irreparable damage.
* Clouds cannot travel south southwest.
* In sign language, there are 72 ways to say “drawbridge.â€
* When placed in warm milk, raisins re-plump into grapes.
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Amazing Facts
Nice! Lots of stuffs. Good for my college assignments...........Thanks!
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THESE ARE COMPLETELY FALSE!
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Question
Some of these sound like complete crap. the train conductor 1 and the Austrian Christmas colours(australian spelling) in particular. Are these all jokes that are ment to sound like facts or is this serious?
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