Things I’ll bet you didn’t know.
Posted by Troy Johnson on November 12, 2009 · 1 Comment
Here are a bunch of facts and study results that you can tell your friends. If you have any ya BUM!
68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world’s population.
The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
You can start a fire with ice.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
Take your height and divide by eight. That’s how tall your head is!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
An American urologist once bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.
Jimmy Hoffa’s middle name is, appropriately, Riddle.
More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world.
If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you still have a 50% chance of survival.
If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
Forensic scientists can determine a person’s sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk.
That was a very interesting post, I enjoyed reading it. You are so right.