Tuesday, August 31, 2010

a bunch of interesting trivia

i just thought you might like some stuff to ponder while waiting for me to post something really interesting for you to read;
- On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand  corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a  spider  hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- Porcupines float in water!
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

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