Did You Know? (Fun Facts Part1)

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*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

*Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.


*The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

*No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

*Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

*You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

*Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

*The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

*The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

*A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.

*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.

*Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
 
Did You Know? (Fun Facts Part 2)

*Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

*The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

*Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

*The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.

*Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

*Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

*Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

*All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.

*Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

*Pearls melt in vinegar.

*It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

*The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

*Turtles can breathe through their butts.
 
my friend Carla's grandfather was one of the Marlboro men.
 
yeah! thanks for the toothbrush info!.lol😉
 
I got some "interesting " ones lol
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

1967 introduced NEW Words and Phrases into our vocabulary: Boutique, Hippie or Hippy, Teeny-Bopper, Nitty Gritty, Permanent Press, Narc, Hipsters, Kinky, Public Television, Scam, Swap Meet and Think Tank. Counterculture figurehead Dr.Timothy Leary advises, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".

26 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

300,000 Americans are killed each year in hospitals.

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

A bus station is where a bus stops
A train station is where a train stops
On my desk I have a work station.....

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why not.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
 
DJ Soul said:
A bus station is where a bus stops
A train station is where a train stops
On my desk I have a work station..... .
LMAO

aim - lol about the toothbrush, mine's in my bedroom now
 
hehe these are neat, i got them in my email a while back 🙂 sum pretty cool facts!
 
lol.. remembers the last three seconds of its life... no more.

unless u knew that already and i just wasted space replying lol
 
Wow i didnt know that lol thanks 😉 😀

-ant
 
How about this one...did you know that our blood is blue and not red?
 
they say royalty got blue blood lol... and since im a princess.. then this is very much a possibility.. but since i will faint from the sight of excess blood, i wont dare cutting myself to check LOL
 
lol

Actually our blood is dark red. Your *blood* does not ever *look* blue. The blue things you see under your skin are veins. Veins are really whitish in color but because the blood is dark and the skin difuses the light, the veins *look* blue. 😛
 
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