Knowlege is Power People

November 25th. 25 days of posting. It would seem a little crazy to throw in the towel now. And yet, here I sit trying to talk myself out of that very thing. I think I am going to have to break down and resort to the file.

And so tonight, for your reading pleasure, I give to you...

Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know

~ A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
~ A snail can sleep for three years.
~ All polar bears are left handed.
~ American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
~ Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
~ An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
~ Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
~ Butterflies taste with their feet.
~ Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
~ Cat urine glows under a black light.
~ China has more English speakers than the United States.
~ Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear any pants.
~ Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
~ Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
~ February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
~ I am. Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
~ If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
~ If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
~ If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
~ In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including eyebrows and eyelashes.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
~ Michael Jordon makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
~ No word in the English language rhymes with month.
~ Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
~ On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
~ One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930’s lobbied against hemp farmers – they saw it as competition.
~ Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
~ Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (NO!!)
~ Shakespeare invented the word “assassination and “bump”.
~ Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
~ Starfish haven’t got brains.
~ Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
~ The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
~ The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. (eewww!)
~ The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
~The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
~ The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
~ The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
~ The male praying mantis cannot mate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates mating by ripping the male’s head off.
~ The most common name in the world in Mohammed.
~The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
~ The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan”.
~The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary.
~The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
~The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
~There are at least 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
~TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
~Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
~ You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
~ You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

Now don't tell me you don't learn things on this blog.