Post by Rhonda on Aug 13, 2007 3:59:39 GMT -5
* Did you know?
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
The smallest unit of time is the yocto second.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30feet long in his lifetime.
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.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
The smallest unit of time is the yocto second.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30feet long in his lifetime.
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.