Forum » Gender Society Public Forums » Transgender Fun » Things I didn't know About (or care)

Things I didn't know About (or care)

Tags : None
  • Moderator
    2 2627
    Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

    The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

    Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

    Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

    The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

    Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

    Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

    The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

    101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

    To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

    Reindeer like to eat bananas.

    The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

    Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

    The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

    The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during

    World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

    More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

    A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

    When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one's eyes open during a sneeze.

    Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%

    In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

    A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

    Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

    The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United
    States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

    The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

    A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

    You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

    Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

    In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.

    It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.

    Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

    The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
    <p>Karen Brad</p>
      July 6, 2008 10:35 AM BST
    0
  • .....so what's a Jiffy Bag then..........??

    ciao
    Lynn H.
    "It ain't what you do,it's the way that you do it............and that's what gets results!"
      July 9, 2008 6:00 PM BST
    0