I received these via email. I bet these interesting facts can help get a conversation started, break the ice, or transition from awkward moments… Thanks for sharing these Mae :
50 Really Interesting Facts
1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is ‘Das Beste oder Nichts’ meaning ‘the best or nothing’.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb ‘cleave’ is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command ‘go hang yourself.’
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. 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 cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red. — I’m glad this is not true for humans
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
It´s true I tried it today! It works
The 5oth fact is just mind-blowing. I haven’t heard anything like that before. 30 feet is really far. I don’t know if someone had made a live test on this? Thanks for sharing these amazing info.
I think the most interesting one is about the statues or the human heart. That would be really neat to see a heart shoot blood thirty feet.
Really great things we learn from this posting.
48th one is really very funny……:)
Thanks, keep posting
I like very much the design of your blog ^__^
BTW interesting facts
Not sure about the smoking one. I’ve quit, and I swear I need an extra hour, not one less
Another one on thirst: By the time you FEEL thirsty you are already a quart low on water. Do don’t wait until you feel, just stay hydrated all day long.
love random trivia such as this, and you always learn something new!
if you are getting hicups just jump on one leg and clap that will stop you from hicups
Aha.. thanks for sharing! Really interesting!
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Hahaha, that’s a good one, I never though of that before! From now on I’ll have to keep counting each and every laugh
Thanks for the awesome post,
Charlie R.
I keep finding interesting information on you site – where have you been all my life ;o)
wow!! these are real? if yes then i like the 50th one now before giving my heart to any girl i will think twice…
With these 50 really interesting facts, I can try out for Jeopardy! Wish me luck.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
So is this a good or bad thing? Inquiring minds need to know! Especially since I'm considered intelligent.
number 48 is a little eerie… good post though
wow so many more interesting facts here
Great list , I didn't know most of that stuff. Need to carry that list to parties. lol
Man, amazing facts u got there! Mind blowing.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Registry Cleaners
very good & interesting facts. just enhanced my G.K.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
#32 is wrong.
Fingernails and hair don't continue to grow, it just looks that way.
The skin is actually drying out and shrinking, making the nails and hair look more protruding.
exactly and if they did them your coffin would be filled with hair and old, long, dirty, nails.
It is awesome! your post is what i am looking for a long long time…thanks
la martina usa
great article…really fun read. Are these all true??
Good article but facts 6, 26, 32 and 49 i know are wrong. Otherwise really interesting, never knew about nitrogen bubbles when you crack your fingers.
“The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.”
This fact was really the best one. I knew this truth just now. Anyhow roar from seashell is nice to hear
Nice compilation of interesting facts.
"19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die."
You mean your brain cells come out your nose??
I found point 32 interesting .i.e. "Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death."
sorry to burst your bubble, but this one isn't true. As the corpse dehydrates, the skin creeps back from follicles and nails, making them appear to have grown.
predigested honey means that it's regurgitated from the bees digestive tract. Makes that sweet tasting goo kind of disgusting. And animal activists who protest bee keepers might get stung to death along with the wild pig activists.
That's it, no more sneezing for me!
i love trivia & i really enjoyed reading this one. I used to do "spoonerism"—so that's what it is called. I simply called it "name game". lol
Really interesting facts I learned many new things
Number 26 is wrong. It is not 1 followed by 1 million zeros its 1 followed by 100 zeros (which is still a LOT!) 10^100. It is spelled googol, and googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros 10^googol !!!!
And a googolplexian is 1 followed by a googolplex zeros!!! 10^googolplex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if a kid laughs 300 times and an adult 15 – 100 times than how can the average be 13?????
These are right… actually no some are wrong.. a lot actually.. O_O
these were really interesting!