Saturday, August 6, 2011

Heather: Random Facts.

  • If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. 
  • The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. 
  • It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. 
  • The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
  • It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace". 
  • The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. 
  • When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
  • American car horns beep in the tone of F. 
  • There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
  • The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million. 
  • Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. 
  • The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
  • 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. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  • The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
  • Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
  • Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.  
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • Butterflies taste with their feet.

Crazy.

Your turn.

-H

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