This is the second part of the list of STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Thanks to Angela who sent me this interesting list of trivia. Have a nice day!
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
3. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".
4. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
5. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
6. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head..
7. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
8. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines
9. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
10. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
11. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
12. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka
13. There are more chickens than people in the world.
14. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
15. There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C..
16. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
17. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
18. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
19. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
20. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
21. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
22. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
23. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
24. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
25. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
26. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
27. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
28. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
29. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
Thanks for reading! Have a nice day!
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A blog reader named Kassim kindly brought this to my attention in his comment to this post. Thank you, Kassim, for your kind gesture.
Kassim wrote:
I sincerely doubt the veracity of some of these "facts". For example, no. 24
24. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
A simple google search will show that the world record for staying awake is about 11 days, and that people who try this do not suffer any apparent long term effects. In any case, it would be more likely for sleep deprived people to black out, or in the worst case, fall into a coma, rather than dropping dead after 10 days.
24 comments to STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS PART 2
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Cat-from-Sydney 10. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
Aunty Paula,
And that's why Angelina prefers to hibernate than to watch soccer on TV, I guess. hmmmm...... should I hibernate too? har har har *ROTFLOL*
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Anonymous Wat goes up must come down so does
the price of perak-toad !
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Anonymous Hairy toads which could singh / sing are rare BUT price-less / cheap !
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Anonymous 'whistling' while brushing teeth is possible IF you are brushing your set of dentures !
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Selvi 26. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
The Malim Nawar Frog has no conscience.
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Unknown Dear Anon @ 7.09am
Haha!!! Great sense of humor :-)! Thanks for sharing :-)!
Cheers
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Unknown Dear Anon @ 7.12am
Very true provided the person does not trim the offending display of hair haha!
Cheers
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Unknown Dear Anon @ 7.19pm
Disappointing but painfully true! Thanks for sharing!
Cheers
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Unknown Dear Brad
Haha!! While you are watching football, Angelina is getting an increase her brain activity...:-) So perhaps you can follow her example after following a football match? Don't hibernate too long!!! I will miss you both!
Salam
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Unknown Dear Anon @ 8.30a.m.
Ah very true! Perhaps that is why the new toad in town did not smile at the press.
Cheers
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Unknown Dear Anon @ 9.08 am
That's a clever pun! Please allow me to add to your version...
The hairy toad that could sing was about to sink so he was priced-less than other toads before him ;-).
Cheers
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Unknown Dear iwc
I am sure you savored this set of trivia over home brewed Ipoh white coffee!
So did I!
Cheers
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Unknown Dear Selvi
Very true! I wonder how he can sleep each night and walk the streets of Malim Nawar!
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Unknown I sincerely doubt the veracity of some of these "facts". For example, no. 24
24. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
A simple google search will show that the world record for staying awake is about 11 days, and that people who try this do not suffer any apparent long term effects. In any case, it would be more likely for sleep deprived people to black out, or in the worst case, fall into a coma, rather than dropping dead after 10 days.
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Anonymous We are more than 60% water.
Intelligent people usually die much younger than others.
Go in Cambodian language is for COW.
As you aged the time seems to go faster by the day.
Whether we think we can or think we can't, we are still right!
~ahoo~
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Unknown Dear Anon @ 8.03pm
They must be still rich for they did not croak a big fuss about the alleged agreement.
Take care and have a nice day!
Cheers
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Unknown Dear Kassim
Many thanks for your informed input. I will amend the post and add your comment to it. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to bring this to our attention.
Take care and do keep in touch.
Have a pleasant evening.
Salam
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Unknown Dear ahoo
Many thanks for sharing that interesting input! The input about time is very real in my life now haha!
Take care and thanks for blessing us with your nuggets of knowledge. God bless you and yours always.
Shalom
Anonymous There are NO clocks in all the toilets ...we can take our own smelly time !