Friday, June 01, 2007

some wierd facts from spleak.
-On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.-The last name in the Toronto phone book is Zzyzzer.
-7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.
-Assuming current population growths remain constant: by the year 3550 the total human population will have the same mass as the earth; assuming the average person is 60 kg
-If a wolf gets its leg caught in a trap, it will chew it off.
-The rotation of the Earth will eventually slow down to match the moon.
-A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.(sick right)
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
-In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
-The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
-Polar bears are left handed.
-The parrots intelligence is comparable to a 5 year old child.
-There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
-The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
-In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
-Some lions mate over 50 times a day.- Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. - Starfish don't have brains.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
-If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in he 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.interesting right
-Dominica has the highest crime rate on earth, more than 1/5 of the population is involved in criminal activities.
-The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-star Game.
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
-There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
-The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
-The reason people say God Bless you when you sneeze is because your heart actually stops as long as it takes for you to sneeze.
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado



ok. no more facts. now for quiz results
You Are a Renaissance Man/Woman
You have a deep appreciation for the classics: literature, art, music and theater. You are interested in learning for the sake of learning rather than merely for self-promotion or to impress others. Your life is a continual search for answers, new questions and self-improvement and you are all the richer for it.

gtg now.


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