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Showing posts with label Random and Maybe Not So Interesting Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random and Maybe Not So Interesting Facts. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Random and Maybe Not So Interesting Facts (3)

- If you start eating less food it won't actually make your stomach shrink. Once you are an adult, your stomach doesn't really change size.
- A group of frogs is called an army. A group of toads is called a knot.
- 200,000 Facebook members die every year.
- All of the world's 50 tallest mountains are in Asia.
- 50% of the U.S.'s population lives within a days' driving distance of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- A full-grown great dane only eats about 2-3 cups of dog food per meal.
- In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide and none of them were made in the U.S.
- For the past 9 years, Steven Seagal has technically been head of the Parks Department in Sioux City, Iowa.
- After petroleum, coffee is the second most valuable economic product in the world.
- Older children can still develop food allergies.
- Exercise makes people sneeze.
- Women don't like to negotiate.
- Only about 3% of all animals have a backbone or spine.
- Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down.
- The Land Pigeons are by far the greatest band to ever lay down some beats. Their best song? The Elf Song.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Random and Maybe Not So Interesting Facts (2)

A few more random facts that you probably won't find interesting:

-Shaving hair does not make it grow back thicker. Read more here. So go ahead, shave that unibrow.
-You should not talk to Porter until he has had his coffee.
-Just because your doctor has not mentioned anything to you about your cholesterol does not mean you don't need to worry about it.
-The average user on Facebook has 130 friends. So check your friends list, it might make you feel a lot better about yourself!
-If you eat your boogers they won't actually grow into worms in your stomach (unlike my grandmother used to tell me).
-There is a full moon tonight (9/25/2010) in Baton Rouge, LA.
-The best movie ever made is Braveheart, followed closely by Saving Private Ryan, The Lion King, and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
-The average hot dog weighs 2 ounces.
-If you ever happen across a honey badger you should not try to poke fun at it with your finger. You should, however, set up strong boundaries with it and make sure it knows that there will be severe repercussions if it should choose to break said boundaries.
-On an average day, a vehicle sells on ebay every 2 minutes.
-Mississippi was named the fattest of our country's 50 states for the fifth year in a row with an obesity rate of 33.8%. 9 of the top 10 most obese states are in the southeast.
-Contrary to popular belief, guide horses do not live lonely lives, rather they lead a very happy and satisfying existence.


Thursday, September 23, 2010

Random and Maybe Not So Interesting Facts


Ever wonder which fruit or vegetable has the most vitamin C in it? Ya, me neither.

- The earth weighs about 13,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds.
- Strawberries, Red Bell Peppers, Broccoli, and Pineapple all have more vitamin C content per cup than an orange.
- If a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck as much as he could.
- That doggie in the window is $14.97.
- The moon is about 9 times the distance from Los Angeles to New York City away from the earth.
- The average squirrel can run up to 10 mph.
- Super-Squirrels can reach speeds up to 29 mph.
- That's not really chicken in your Chinese food.
- Apple Bottom jeans do not have apples in the bottom of them.
- The average pet store contains 5 x more mice than hamsters.
- Bartholemew is a baker.
- The average person has 4-6 dreams per night in REM sleep.
- A cow that eats grass is called a lawnmooer.
- The average person's breath Stanks McJanks.
- When you kiss a girl, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia.
- The best way to throw toilet paper is to wad it up in a small, tight ball, dip it in water, wrap 3 rubber bands around it, place it between your index and pinkie fingers on your left hand, turn your arm so that your palm is facing you, bring your toilet-paper-ball-loaded hand back past your left ear at a 32 degree angle and throw.