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August 6th, 2008

34 Hard Core Facts!

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…

  1. Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.
  2. Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.
  3. John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
  4. In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
  5. Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer.
  6. One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
  7. Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
  8. As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
  9. There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
  10. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
  11. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
  12. Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
  13. 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.
  14. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  15. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
  16. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
  17. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
  18. 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.
  19. Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
  20. There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
  21. 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.
  22. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
  23. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
  24. 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.
  25. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
  26. 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.
  27. North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
  28. 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.
  29. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
  30. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
  31. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
  32. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
  33. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
  34. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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July 16th, 2008

India and Indians, Some Factoids

I’ve posted some amazing facts and figures about almost anything some time ago. Here are some equally amazing and interesting factoids, you and especially the Indians out there did not know much about.

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My Indian friend, Kareet emailed me this and I thought it will be great to share with you guys instead of keeping it in my Gmail inbox.

OK, interesting facts and figures about India and Indians – roll on!

  • There are 3.22 Million Indians in America
  • 38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
  • 12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
  • 36% of NASA employees are Indians.
  • 34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians
  • 28% of IBM employees are Indians
  • 17% of INTEL employees are Indians
  • 13% of XEROX employees are Indians

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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.
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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!

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May 17th, 2006

15 Little Known Facts About Chuck Norris

1. Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

2. A man once asked Chuck Norris if his real name is “Charles”. Chuck Norris did not respond; he simply stared at him until he exploded.

3. Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother’s womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

4. Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK’s head exploded out of sheer amazement.

5. The original theme song to the Transformers was actually “Chuck Norris–more than meets the eye, Chuck Norris–robot in disguise,” and starred Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger who defended the earth from drug-dealing Decepticons and could turn into a pick-up. This was far too much awesome for a single show, however, so it was divided.

6. Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of “beard”. Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus’ obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.

7. Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, “Bang!”

8. When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axels, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.

9. Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying “booya”.

10. Before each filming of Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris is injected with five times the lethal dose of elephant tranquilizer. This is, of course, to limit his strength and mobility, in an attempt to lower the fatality rate of the actors he fights.

11. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

12. When Chuck Norris’s wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, “Don’t worry about it honey,” and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, “Never question Chuck Norris.”

13. Chuck Norris took my virginity, and he will sure as hell take yours. If you’re thinking to yourself, “That’s impossible, I already lost my virginity.”, then you are dead wrong.

14. Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

15. Chuck Norris once tried to sue Burger King after they refused to put razor wire in his Whopper Jr., insisting that that actually is “his” way.

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May 16th, 2006

All About Coca Cola!

Coca ColaI found this very interesting. So, are you a fan of Coke? If yes, then this might interest you!

Infos, facts and fictions or maybe myths….all related to Coca Cola.

  1. The color of Coca Cola was originally green!*
  2. Coca Cola was originated by a pharmacist (Doctor John Pembert) as a drug to cure depression.
  3. Coca Cola once being made from cocaine and also had alcohol in it.
  4. Coca Cola was originally made form Coca-leaves (cocaine-plant) and Cola-nuts (which grow in Africa).
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May 13th, 2006

Facts You Might Want to Know

In the 1400’s a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb”.

Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden”…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The average number of people airborne over theUS any given hour : 61,000

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in
history:
Spades – King David
Hearts – Charlemagne
Clubs – Alexander, the Great
Diamonds – Julius Caesar

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