Soldato
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Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue
An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
Ants dont sleep. Thanx teepo (apparently no one can be sure since they don't have eyelids, they also have no need for sleep)
Ants taste like sweet tarts. (from experience..)
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin. (But one also wonders how big a milk glass is... anyone?)
The gases emitted from a banana or an apple can help an orange ripen. (Not sure which fruits are concerned).
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.
Australia is a major exporter of camels
Australia has no native monkeys. (in the wild)
Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world
Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)
Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights
There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.
Most caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes colour after child birth.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. (apparently they fuse together such as the parietal, occipital of the skull)
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Wow... utterly amazing huh
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer).
The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to
squirt blood 30 feet.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear
by 700 times.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
Ants dont sleep. Thanx teepo (apparently no one can be sure since they don't have eyelids, they also have no need for sleep)
Ants taste like sweet tarts. (from experience..)
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin. (But one also wonders how big a milk glass is... anyone?)
The gases emitted from a banana or an apple can help an orange ripen. (Not sure which fruits are concerned).
Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.
Australia is a major exporter of camels
Australia has no native monkeys. (in the wild)
Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world
Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)
Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights
There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.
Most caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes colour after child birth.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. (apparently they fuse together such as the parietal, occipital of the skull)
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Wow... utterly amazing huh
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer).
The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to
squirt blood 30 feet.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear
by 700 times.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.