- An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in their car in a lifetime
- The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
- In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
- In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times.
- Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
- It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
- The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
- If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this planet would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
- The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
- The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
- Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes.
- In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.
- After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour
- If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth's oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep
- To tell if a egg is fully cooked or raw, just spin it. If the egg wobbles then it is still raw, and if it easily spins it is fully cooked.
Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60.
- On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for "Very Special Old Pale."
- In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
- A turtle can breathe through its butt.
Friday, 16 October 2009
20 useless facts
I am 98% sure.....that 98% of you don't know all 20 of the following facts!.....
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