INTERESTING REAL FACTS (STRANGE BUT TRUE)

Interesting Real Facts (Strange

but True)

1

Look at your zipper. See the

initials YKK? It stands for

Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha,

the world's largest zipper

manufacturer.

2

40 percent of McDonald's profits

come from the sales of Happy

Meals.



3

315 entries in Webster's 1996

Dictionary were misspelled.

4

On the average, 12 newborns

will be given to the wrong

parents daily.

5

Chocolate kills dogs! True,

chocolate affects a dog's heart

and nervous system. A few

ounces is enough to kill a small

sized dog.

6

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's

as a medicine.

7

Leonardo da Vinci could write

with one hand and draw with

the other at the same time.

8

Because metal was scarce, the

Oscars given out during World

War II were made of wood.

9

There are no clocks in Las Vegas

gambling casinos.

10

Leonardo da Vinci invented

scissors. Also, it took him 10

years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11

Bruce Lee was so fast that they

actually had to slow a film down

so you could see his moves.

That's the opposite of the norm.

12

The original name for the

butterfly was "flutterby"!

13

By raising your legs slowly and

lying on your back, you can't

sink in quicksand.

14

Mosquito repellents don't repel.

They hide you. The spray blocks

the mosquito's sensors so they

don't know you're there.

15

Dentists recommend that a

toothbrush be kept at least six

feet away from a toilet to avoid

airborne particles resulting from

the flush.

16

The first product to have a bar

code was Wrigley's gum.

17

Michael Jordan makes more

money from Nike annually than

the entire Nike factory workers

in Malaysia combined.

18

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on

one foot.

19

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously

considered having an abortion

but was talked out of it by her

doctor.

20

The three most valuable brand

names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-

Cola, and Budweiser, in that

order.

21

To escape the grip of a

crocodile's jaws, prick your

fingers into its eyeballs. It will

let you go instantly.

22

The average person falls asleep

in seven minutes.

23

The "pound" (#) key on your

keyboard is called an octothorp.

24

The only domestic animal not

mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25

Rubber bands last longer when

refrigerated.

26

The average person's left hand

does 56% of the typing.

27

Dreamt" is the only word in the

English language that ends in

"mt".

28

It's impossible to sneeze with

your eyes open.

29

In Chinese, the KFC slogan

"finger lickin' good" comes out

as "eat your fingers off".

30

A cockroach can live for 10 days

without a head.

31

We shed 40 pounds of skin a

lifetime.

32

Yo-Yos were once used as

weapons in the Philippines.

33

Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches

a year.

34

Brains are more active sleeping

than watching TV.

35

Blue is the favorite color of 80

percent of Americans.

36

When a person shakes their

head from side to side, he is

saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

37

There are more chickens than

people in the world.

38

The thumbnail grows the

slowest, and the middle nail

grows the fastest.

39

There are more telephones than

people in Washington, D.C.

40

The average four year-old child

asks over four hundred

questions a day.

41

The average person presses the

snooze button on their alarm

clock three Times each morning.

42

The three wealthiest families in

the world have more assets

than the Combined wealth of

the forty-eight poorest nations.

43

The first owner of the Marlboro

cigarette Company died of lung

cancer.

44

Intelligent people have more

zinc and copper in their hair.

45

The world's youngest parents

were 8 and 9 and lived in China

in 1910.

46

Our eyes remain the same size

from birth onward, but our

noses and ears Never stop

growing.

47

You burn more calories sleeping

than you do watching TV.

48

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.

49

Chewing gum while peeling

onions will keep you from

crying.

50

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51

When the moon is directly

overhead, you weigh slightly

less.

52

Alexander Graham Bell, the

inventor of the telephone, never

telephoned His wife or mother

because they were both deaf.

53

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

54

"I am." is the shortest complete

sentence in the English language

55

Colgate faced a big obstacle

marketing toothpaste in Spanish

speaking Countries because

Colgate translates into the

command "go hang Yourself."

56

Like fingerprints, everyone's

tongue print is different.

57

"Bookkeeper" is the only word

in English language with three

consecutive Double letters.

58

Right handed people live, on

average, nine years longer than

left handed People do.

59

The sentence "the quick brown

fox jumps over the lazy dog"

uses every Letter in the English

language.

60

If the population of China

walked past you in single line,

the line Would never end

because of the rate of

reproduction

61

China has more English speakers

than the United States.

62

Every human spent about half

an hour as a single cell.

63

Each square inch of human skin

consists of twenty feet of blood

vessels.

64

An average person uses the

bathroom 6 times per day.

65

Babies are born with 300 bones,

but by adulthood we have only

206 in our Bodies.

66

Beards are the fastest growing

hairs on the human body. If the

average Man never trimmed his

beard, it would grow to nearly

30 feet long in his Lifetime.

67

According to Genesis 1:20-22,

the chicken came before the

egg.

68

The longest place name still in

use is:

Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-

Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

- a New Zealand hill.

69

If you leave Tokyo by plane at

7:00am, you will arrive in

Honolulu at Approximately

4:30pm the previous day.

70

Scientists in Australia's Parkes

Observatory thought they had

positive Proof of alien life, when

they began picking up radio-

waves from space. However,

after investigation, the radio

emissions were traced to a

Microwave in the building.

71

Wearing headphones for an

hour increases the bacteria in

your ear 700 times.

72

More than 40,000 parasites and

250 types of bacteria are

exchanged during a French kiss.

73

Men can read smaller print than

women, but women can hear

better.

74

Coca-Cola was originally green.

75

The most common name in the

world is Mohammed.

76

The name of all the continents

ends with the same letter that

they start with.

77

There are two credit cards for

every person in the United

States.

78

TYPEWRITER is the longest word

that can be made using the

letters only on one row of the

keyboard.

79

Women blink nearly twice as

much as men!!

80

You can't kill yourself by holding

your breath.

81

It is impossible to lick your

elbow.

82

People say "Bless you" when

you sneeze because when you

sneeze, your heart stops for a

millisecond.

83

It is physically impossible for

pigs to look up into the sky.

84

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth

sheep's sick" is said to be the

toughest tongue twister in the

English language.

85

If you sneeze too hard, you can

fracture a rib. If you try to

suppress a sneeze, you can

rupture a blood vessel in your

head or neck and die.

86

Each king in a deck of playing

cards represents great king

from history. Spades - King

David, Clubs - Alexander the

Great, Hearts - Charlemagne,

Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

87

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =

12,345,678,987,654,321

88

If a statue of a person in the

park on a horse has both front

legs in the air, the person died in

battle.

89

If the horse has one front leg in

the air, the person died as a

result of wounds received in

battle.

90

If the horse has all four legs on

the ground, the person died of

natural causes.

91

Question - This is the only food

that doesn't spoil. What is this?

Ans. - Honey

92

A crocodile cannot stick its

tongue out.

93

A snail can sleep for three years.

94

All polar bears are left handed.

95

American Airlines saved $40,000

in 1987 by eliminating one olive

from each salad served in first-

class.

96

Butterflies taste with their feet.

97

Elephants are the only animals

that can't jump.

98

In the last 4000 years, no new

animals have been

domesticated.

99

On average, people fear spiders

more than they do death.

100

Shakespeare invented the word

'assassination' and 'bump'.

101

Stewardesses is the longest

word typed with only the left

hand.

102

The ant always falls over on its

right side when intoxicated.

103

The electric chair was invented

by a dentist.

104

The human heart creates

enough pressure when it pumps

out to the body to squirt blood

30 feet.

105

Rats multiply so quickly that in

18 months, two rats could have

over million descendants.

106

The cigarette lighter was

invented before the match.

107

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

108

And finally 99% of people who

read this will try to lick their

elbow

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