50 things you didnt know...

[Rubys mummy]

50 things you did'nt know!

1 - Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2 - Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3 - There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4 - The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
5 - A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
6 - There are more chickens than people in the world.
7 - The longest one-syllable word in the English language is”screeched.”
8 - On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
9 - All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
10 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
11 - “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
12 - Almonds are a member of the peach family.
13 - There are only 4 words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
14 - A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15 - An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
16 - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17 - In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18 - Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
19 - The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a WonderfulLife.”
20 - A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
21 - A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
23 - The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
24 - In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
25 - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
26 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
27 - There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
28 - The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
29 - A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
30 - A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
31 - Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,which is why
Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also
misspelled on his tomb stone.
32 - Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
33 - More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes. (Not any more!)
34 - Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35 - Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
36 - Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
37 - If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
38 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
39 - Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
40 - The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language .
41 - The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
42 - TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
43 - The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
44 - A snail can sleep for 3 years.
45 - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
46 - The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47 - Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
48 - “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49 - No president of the United states was an only child.

And last and definitely most important:
50 - The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it


@ No 50

 

[budge]

22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


i disagree. ive done it whilst driving.




20 - A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

i knew that

21 - A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

and that which is why i can't see any reason they can't be kept in a pint glass.


31 - Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,which is why
Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also
misspelled on his tomb stone.

knew that too

36 - Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
freaky

 

[Xena]

there are some i did know - these :


6 - There are more chickens than people in the world.
10 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
17 - In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
19 - The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a WonderfulLife.”
21 - A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
28 - The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
32 - Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
36 - Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
38 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
39 - Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
40 - The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language .
43 - The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
46 - The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
50 - The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it


however, i disagree about the goldfish memory one.

goldfish swim near the top of the bowl if you pretend to sprinkle food in and start mouthing the water trying to find the food.

now, the three second memory theory would still hold true if they came to the top because they smelt food or felt it falling - so they would go to get it. 3 seconds later they would re-smell it or re-feel it, and so carry on looking for food.

but they do that, as i said, even if you don't put any food there. if you PRETEND to sprinkle food, they come up, and they still carry on looking for the food for several minutes after you've stopped pretending. i guess they reckon they have to search to find it or something.
how would that be possible if they had a 3 second memory? they would have forgotten that they saw you pretending to sprinkle it!

also, i had a goldfish, and he used to get really excited when he saw us. he'd start bouncing around and wagging his fins and tail - i swear that fish thought he was a dog.

besides, in general, fish have long memories. many fish (okay not specifically GOLDfish, but other fish) swim back for miles and miles to get to their place of birth in order to lay eggs in the same place they came from. marvellous memory!

 

[Minxy]

My mum always made me eat fish to improve my memory!

 

[Xena]

lol yeh me too - she calls it brain food