you never know when you might need to know something.
you might never need to know something.
it's still interesting to me.
> the largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell (the ovum).
the smallest is the male sperm.
>in the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders
> a fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
>the longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
> lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
>Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they're an ox. (this i would love to see!)
> Reindeer like to eat bananas (maybe a good one to know for christmas - make sure that santa's sled stops at your house by putting bananas on the roof)
> turtles and honeybees are both deaf
> sound at the right vibration frequency can bore through solid objects
> there are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
> because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if it is thrown west.
> the shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after only 38 minutes (poor underdogs)
> by law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at primary school (that seems worse than having to take recorder at NZ primary schools!)
> the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
> it is physically impossible for a pig to look up to the sky
well, there you go. hope you've learned something new today. whether or not you needed to learn it, that's a whole different story.
So cool. I love random facts! I use iGoogle as my homepage and have an app thing called "Useless Knowledge". Here's the one that just came up:
ReplyDelete"Around 1400 B.C., it was the fashion among rich Egyptian women to place a large cone of scented grease on top of their heads. As the day wore on, it melted and dripped down their bodies, covering their skin with an oily, glistening sheen and bathing their clothes in fragrance."