Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world’s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. ![]() You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: “Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway.”. The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats. The annual growth of Sex burns 360 calories per hour. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one’s eyes open during a sneeze. When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip. The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona. If you place a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Only female mosquito’s’ bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color. Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger ones in front. Ants closely resemble human manners: When they wake, they stretch and appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year. ![]() One-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year. Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World. It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all American households. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. Most collect calls are made on father’s day. ![]() There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. 10% percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka. Right-handed people live, on average nine years longer than left-handed people. Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world. One-quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. It was created in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920s. Caesar Salad has nothing Julius Caesar or ancient Rome. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world. The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights. Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.” Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. Yairventuraf A ‘jiffy’ is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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