Interesting Facts

OliverE

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  1. One bottle of Mountain Dew Engery Drink is 66% or 2/3rds of your daily recommended sugar intake in the UK.
  2. People who take drugs over the age of 50 are more likely to die than someone under 50.
  3. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  4. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
  5. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
  6. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
  7. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
  8. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
  9. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
  10. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  11. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  13. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
  14. Bubble gum contains rubber.
  15. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  16. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
  17. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
  18. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
  19. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
  20. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

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i think 7. is a bit disturbing for a fact if you ask me but 20. just shows how great the british are at sving lives lol
 
Thier are more atoms in a bucket of water than ther are buckets of water in the atlantic ocean, i think i read this somewhere not sure if its rite
 
Thats most likely correct as there will be millions of atoms in a bucket, and even though there will be buckets in the ocean I doubt it will be near the millions.
 
Got stuck on number 7. haha. But seriously, pigs have all the fun...till they get slaughtered. :D
 
Since babies are born without knee caps, I think we need to start getting them some knee pads. I think I have figured out why they cry so much lol.
 
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

When I was nine I too couldn't speaked fluently :crazy:, does that mean something ? :biggrin:

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