Here are some
facts that are strange and unusual but true!
How many did you know?
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
the morning.
- Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
- A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10
yrs.
- People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being
indoors a lot more.
- When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ..even your heart!
- Only 7% of the population are lefties.
- 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every
minute.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until
they are 2-6 years old.
- The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting
in lines.
- The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
- The average housefly lives for one month.
- 400,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
- A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
- The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
- Eating breakfast cereals like "Fruity Pebbles" and
"Cap'n Crunch Berries" will cause your stools to come out green.
- Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the
day.
- The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to
search for water.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning
it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An
Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
- Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the
rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
- In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of
white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
- Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same
airplane just in case there is a crash.
- The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a
tomato can for a carburetor.
- Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut
from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
- Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were
seventh cousins.
- If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
~Author Unknown~
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