Sunday, May 30, 2010

Strange Facts

  • Onions have no flavor. They just have smell.
  • No less than 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide every day.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • It’s not just humans who are right or left handed. Even dogs and cats are that way.
  • A Tibetan monk had invented the French ticker.
  • The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
  • One burns more calories sleeping than by watching TV.
  • Some of the Nazi SS uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss.
  • A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly.
  • Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
  • Next time you see polar bears with transparent and fluffy fur; do give a thought to the fact that they actually have black skin.
  • The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. You can detect the noise over 800 kilometres away.
  • A chameleon can see in two different directions at the same time
  • The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.
  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • Cats have over 100 vocal sounds whereas dogs have just 10.
  • Twitchers are defined as people who chase rare birds.
  • The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."
  • There are some types of frogs who are frozen solid then thawed and still continue living.
  • There is only one mammal who cannot jump and that is Elephant.
  • If you think coffee beans are beans then you are mistaken. They are actually fruit pits.
  • The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut.
  • Human’s eyes have the capability of detecting an astonishing 10 million colors.
  • There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt.
  • Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.
  • Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
  • Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky.
  • The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.