Fun facts :)

[diva101]

I just saw a hashtag on twitter: #funnyfacts

maybe we could share some fun facts here on CF!




I'll Start


Do You Know That:

• The term "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" originated in Ancient Rome, where the only way to get
  disqualified during a wrestling match was to poke someone's eye out.
• More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
• Hippo milk is pink.
• On average, women have always lived longer than men.
• You can overdose on caffeine.
• Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
• The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
• The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
• A group of officers is called a mess.
• To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
• The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• Milk is heavier than cream.

 

[conorlovescarrie:)]

Some of those were really really cool. I think theres a bunch more of this kind of stuff on omgfacts.com

 

[kaileigh]

wow! I never knew some of that! Thanks so much!

 

[kaileigh]

Here's what I've got:

*When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
*Women have a better sense of smell than men.
*The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
*Cats have a weak sense of taste. They only have 473 taste buds, humans have 9,000.
*Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
*The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys Gum
*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
*Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left-handed people do.
*The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always fall over its right side when intoxicated.
*A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starve to death.

cont.

 

[kaileigh]

*An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
*A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't
*The can opener is invented 48 years after the can
*You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening! (Weird...)
*The opposite side of a dice cube always add up to seven
* Rubber bands lasts longer when refrigerated.
*In 1893, the Congress have proposed to rename the U.S. the "United States of the Earth"
*A small airplane can fly backwards
*It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer
*A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
*A shrimp's heart is in its head
*Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined
*A bird 'chews' with its stomach
*All clams start out as males; some of them decide to become females some point of their lives
* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with letter "E"! (How's that?)
*In Albania, nodding your head means 'no', and shaking it means 'yes'
*Minnows have teeth in their throat