Facts u did NOT know...sorry if repost

[slycat]

FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head. The only reason it doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.

A cat's urine glows under black light. (And stinks forever.)

Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than Left-handed people do.

The reason people say God Bless U when you sneeze is b'cos your heart actually stops as long as it takes for U to sneeze.

A sneeze travels at over 100 m.p.h.!

7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

[Howard]

I'm not too sure that sneezing thing is true.

 

[Trevelyan]

NICE thread...

How about this one I just found out today:

Plant biology is the most boring part of existence.

 

[ROTC1983]

AH, more stuff that is taking the space of important information

 

[BennyD]

Originally posted by: slycat
FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
know that
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
know that

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
doubt that alot

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
know that

A cockroach will live nine days without its head. The only reason it doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.
know that

A cat's urine glows under black light. (And stinks forever.)
know that

Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than Left-handed people do.

The reason people say God Bless U when you sneeze is b'cos your heart actually stops as long as it takes for U to sneeze.
know that

A sneeze travels at over 100 m.p.h.!
know that (though it was 80)

7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
know that

well then mr "will NOT know"... pwndage

 

[WinkOsmosis]

People have been saying "God bless you" for longer than they have known about your heart stopping, assuming that's true. They thought your soul left your body temporarily when you sneezed.

 

[Mallow]

I agree with Jellomancer on the sneezing.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

lol, that is probably true for a lot of small animals.

 

[kranky]

<< "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand. >>

It's actually "tesseradecades".

 

[SWScorch]

I had heard that people said God Bless You from the days of the Bubonic plague. Everytime someone sneezed, they would offer them this benediction in hopes that they did not have the dreaded affliction.

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: kranky
<< "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand. >>

It's actually "tesseradecades".

:Q i dont see it...

 

[CraigRT]

hey, i knew most of those.... cept the cockroach one

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
I had heard that people said God Bless You from the days of the Bubonic plague. Everytime someone sneezed, they would offer them this benediction in hopes that they did not have the dreaded affliction.

ayup

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
I had heard that people said God Bless You from the days of the Bubonic plague. Everytime someone sneezed, they would offer them this benediction in hopes that they did not have the dreaded affliction.

And they really meant God Bless Me, I hope this person doesn't have the plague.

 

[NokiaDude]

An SUV cannot make that right turn at 35mph. :Q

 

[slikmunks]

Originally posted by: Mallow
I agree with Jellomancer on the sneezing.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

lol, that is probably true for a lot of small animals.

it's prob'ly true for some people... at least it seems like it at times

 

[slikmunks]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
An SUV cannot make that right turn at 35mph. :Q

it can make a really really wide right turn at 35mph

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker

Originally posted by: kranky
<< "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand. >>

It's actually "tesseradecades".

:Q i dont see it...

It means "groups of fourteen".

 

[0roo0roo]

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

ugh no. only way that would work is if the light was a heatlamp that always stayed on

 

[bmacd]

that fact about your eyes being the same size throughout life was kinda neat.

-=bmacd=-

 

[NokiaDude]

I was refering to that 90 degree corner at the end of the hill at my place.

 

[EdipisReks]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

ugh no. only way that would work is if the light was a heatlamp that always stayed on

you are totally incorrect, 0roo0roo. a refrigerator keeps the contents at a fairly constant temperature, and that temperature is above freezing. in the arctic, if you did not refrigerate food that wasn't kept in a temperature regulated environment, it would quickly be ruined from frost burn.