-Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it!)
-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet (now there's something to visualize)
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. (yuck!)
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. (now there's a diet)
-You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.(and people fear spider!)
-Righthanded people live, on average, nine years longer than lefthanded people do. (If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-A normal person laughs five times in a day.
-A man says average 4850 words in 24 hours.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
-Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
-When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
-There are more chickens than people in the world.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
-When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
mizu kage 4 · Thu May 15, 2008 @ 03:48am · 0 Comments |