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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Wanna Know Some Random Facts?? Here ya go.

1. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. 2. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
3. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
4. In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight.”
5. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts… So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.” It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”
6. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
9. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
10. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
11. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
12. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
13. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
14. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
15. Your Hand Can Have A Mind On Its Own
16. You Could Remove A Large Part of Your Internal Organs and Survive
17. Babies Have More Bones Than You Do
18. The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum. While scientists are yet to figure out the specific purpose of this indentation serves besides allowing humans to express a much larger range of lip motions, the ancient Greeks thought it to be one of the most arousing places on the body.

Sources:
http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/10/28/25-crazy-facts-about-everything.html
http://www.bypassfanpages.com/2010/05/the-top-50-random-interesting-facts/
http://news.upickreviews.com/facts-about-the-human-bodyn


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