- Search, Listen and Download Mp3 for FREE!
- World's Most Expensive Taxi Ride!
- Tip: Double Your Mileage with Acetone!
- Talk to The World with Telemegaphone!
- Modern Toilet Restaurant [Pictures & Videos]
August 6th, 2008
34 Hard Core Facts!
My friend David emailed me this fact list and ask me to post it up. Well, he knows that BlogIsEverything.com is a factoids dump 
OK, here they are…
- Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.
- Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.
- John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
- In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
- Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer.
- One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
- Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
- As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
- There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
- The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
- Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the 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.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
- There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
- Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
- Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
- There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
- It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
- The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
- Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
- There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
- Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
- Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Enjoy!
Related Readings:
Economic Facts and Fallacies
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2008 (World Almanac and Book of Facts)post with your friends & family!
· 0 Ratings
Loading ...
October 17th, 2007
40 Interesting and True Facts
Well, facts AGAIN! Yup, I received an email today from one of my close friends (she knows I love facts). I’ve pasted quite a few in the past about facts and figures, can check here: www.blogiseverything.com/factoids/.
More and more here. OK, not that many but 40 facts will keep your eyes on the screen for a while I guess.
1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
3. ‘Jedi’ is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
Continue Reading →
Related Readings:
The Big Book of Grimm (Factoid Books)
The Big Book of Thugs: Tough as Nails True Tales of the World's Baddest Mobs, Gangs, and Ne'er do Wells! (Factoid Books)
The Big Book of Martyrs: Amazing but True Tales of Faith in the Face of Certain Death! (Factoid Books)
The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Humanpost with your friends & family!
· 0 Ratings Loading ...
May 21st, 2006
Some Interesting Facts
YEAR 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
YEAR 2005
1. Prince Charles got married (again)
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe (again)
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
So, in future, if Prince Charles decides to re-marry…please warn the Pope!
Related Readings:
Late Show Fun Facts
The Big Book of Hoaxes: True Tales of the Greatest Lies Ever Told! (Factoid Books)
The Big Book of Bad: The Best of the Worst of Everything (Factoid Books)
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Managementpost with your friends & family!
· 0 Ratings Loading ...
