Weird Facts
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Some facts about a human body.
Just one sneeze has been estimated by scientists to surpass over 100 miles per hour.
Our brains function on a measly 10 watts of power. Pretty good considering the average light bulb is 60 watts!
Hydrochloric acid, or more commonly known as stomach acid is tough enough to dissolve a knife and most other metals.
Your hands and feet carry half of the bones in one entire human body. Just one hand contains 27 bones while one foot contains 26.
Scientists have concluded that our bodies contain nearly 60,000 miles of blood vessels per person.
Your stomach lining is continually being replaced. In actuality, we receive a new lining every 4 days.
The pupils of our eyes can dilate just by sound. The smallest noise causes our pupils to become larger and make vision slightly blurry.
The brain cannot feel any pain at all, but is responsible for sending pain signals to any other part of our body.
Scent: Every human being on the earth has their own unique smell, except identical twins which share the same aroma.
Women aren't the only ones that have a uterus. Men have one too! Although it cannot be seen and it is undeveloped, it does exist, laying on one edge of the prostate gland.
Interesting Facts about Life
- Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Whip makes a cracking sound because it's tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- When you blush the lining of your stomach also turns red.
- Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white, there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
- The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.
- Dalmatians are born without spots.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Fun Nature Facts!
Nature is one of the more incredible designs of a Creative Mind. You'll find many weird and amazingly fun facts about it here:
- Even though the male Lion is considered the King of the Jungle, the female lion does 90 percent of all the hunting.
- If you're into eating bugs, some people report beetles having an apple like taste.
- A crocodile can actually digest pieces of steel.
- A giraffe's tongue is so long it can actually clean it's own ears!
- Got a black light? Go check out some cat pee, it actually glows.
- A hummingbird weighs less than a coin in your pocket.
- It's really too bad if a rat or a horse eats something poisonous, they're incapable of vomiting.
- Humans aren't the only ones who try to change sex. Clams are asexual and start out as males, but at some point in their lives, there are those that decide to be female.
- A female praying mantis, while mating, will bite off the head of the male.
Electronics Trivia
The world pretty much revolves around the "Digital Age" now. It's hard to walk around and find anyone without a "smart phone" of any type. Here's some fun facts you may not know:
- The very first computer "mouse" was made in 1964 by a man named Doug Engelbert. The fascinating thing: it was wooden!
- In the original arcade Donkey Kong game, Mario was actually called Jumpman and he was a carpenter, not a plumber.
- By July 2008, GOOGLE had indexed over 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) pages on the Internet! And we wonder why it's hard to write about subjects that haven't been written yet.
- The maximum score you could possibly achieve in a game of PAC-MAN 3,333,360 points. That's a lot of quarters!
- GOOGLE incorporated in 1998.
- A normal human being blinks about 20 times per minute. Someone using a computer typically tends to blink only 7 times a minute.
- 1 out of every 8 married couples in the United States in 2012 met online. So E-harmony wasn't lying!
- Facebook pays at least $500 dollars if you can actually figure out how to hack the site.
- HP, GOOGLE, MICROSOFT AND APPLE were all started in garages.
- For every "1" normal webpage, there are 5 porn pages!
- On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 Miles!
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WEIRD BUT TRUE APPLE FACTS.
During the early 80's, Apple's name recognition was so low in Japan that refrigerated trucks were used to deliver Apple computers because the workers thought the boxes contained perishable fruit!
You know that Macintosh you like so much? Imagine if it were called the Bicycle! Steve Jobs used to say that computers were like a bicycle for our minds and even suggested the name be changed to reflect that!
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