Saturday, January 8, 2011

Did You know that....?

Little Known Facts

  • There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
  • There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
  • The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
  • It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
  • Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
  • A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
  • A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
  • More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
  • Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
  • Most Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?
  • Dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
  • A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
  • The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
  • Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
  • You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
  • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
  • Cat urine glows under a black-light!
  • In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
  • In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.
  • In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle.

3 comments:

YM said...

I'm breaking the law. I own pliers!

Echoes said...

YM - you and me both. Probably should be in prison for life based on some old laws that have never been purged to reflect the changing times.

BB-Idaho said...

The juxtaposition-
"You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!"
-explains my dreams of cookies!