Monday, March 23, 2015

Did you know?


  • Reindeers like bananas.
  • The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
  • Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
  • Coca-Cola was originally green.
  • Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
  • Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
  • Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • A Saudi Arabian women can get divorced if her husband doesn't give her coffee
  • Everyday more money is printed for Monopoly then the US Treasury. 
  • If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
  • Wearing headphones for one hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  • If you sneeze to hard you can fracture a rib.
  • Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
  • People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
  • If the amount of water in your body is reduced by 1 percent, you'll feel thirsty. If its reduced 10 percent, you'll die.
  • Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
  • A crocodile can't move its tongue or chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
  • The lifespan of squirrel is nine years.
  • Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
  • Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster then horses, and the males and can roar like lions.
  • A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
  • You can tell the sex of a horse by looking at its teeth. Males usually have 40 teeth, while females have 36.
  • Orca whales kill sharks by torpedoing into their stomachs, causing them to explode.
  • A raisin dropped in a fresh bottle of champagne will bounce up and down.
  • Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before going up into space because farting can damage the spacesuit.
  • Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

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