50 "Other" Facts of Life...
1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6- There are more chickens than people in the world.
7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is"screeched."
9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on4:20.
10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple.
11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
12- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named afterBert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It'sa Wonderful Life."
20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
(And here's my addition:
21 - There is no 13 on this list because it's an advert on the original site)
=D
the other 30 are here
Malawi, me, friends, stories, and whatever else I generally find interesting that's going on in this world...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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