Facts ? some say ...

• Every year, parks in London alone are doused in one million gallons of dog urine.
• The germs present in human faces can pass through up to ten layers of toilet paper.
• The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
• Several well documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.
• If your body's natural defenses failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.
• Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.
• The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 meters in length.
• A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had salaried in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed...
• On his way home to visit his parents, a Harvard student fell between two railroad cars at the station in Jersey City, New Jersey and was rescued by an actor on his way to visit a sister in Philadelphia. The student was Robert Lincoln, heading for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The actor was Edwin Booth, the brother of the man who a few weeks later would murder the student's father.
• Elwood Edwards' voice is heard more than 27 million times a day (which comes to more than 18,000 times per minute). Edwards is the man behind those special words (not "I love you") "You've got mail!"
• Police in Hong Kong use trained rats to sniff out heroin factories.
• In laboratory experiments, given 3 T-Shirts to smell, one they'd worn themselves, one worn by a strange male, and one worn by a strange female, humans were able to distinguish them with remarkable accuracy.
• Before a they fight each other, hippopotamuses defecate a LOT. The animal that produces more will usually win. Perhaps due to the morale-boost of its own smell.
• The female gypsy moth produces a chemical pheromone which attracts males from miles around. If a gram of it were released in a single puff, the males would still be able to detect it a million years later.
• 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.
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression to get fired.
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
• The term the whole 9 yards came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• The phrase rule of thumb is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the General Purpose vehicle, G.P.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• China has more English speakers than the United States. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
• The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
• I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
• No president of the United States was an only child.
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
• Einstein couldn’t read until the age of nine.
• Artichokes are flowers.
• On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day; a child laughs 400 times.
• Abraham Lincoln hated being called "Abe".
• On average, Americans buy 1.5 toothbrushes a year.
• Alaska has the highest percentage of Baby Boomers; Utah the lowest.
• Only pharoahs were allowed to eat mushrooms in ancient Egypt.
• Vitamin C is important because it helps us absorb iron.
• There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
• Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as a medicine.
• The two lines that connect the bottom of your nose to your lip are called the philtrum.
• "J", the youngest letter in the English alphabet, was not added until the 1600s.
• The Hewlett Packard computer company’s first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
• In Nepal, Mt. Everest is known as "Gauriosankar".
• The ancient Romans died their hair with bird droppings.
• Why is a newborn baby’s skin wrinkled? It’s too big for its body.
• Elephants breathe 12 times a minute.
• 16th century French doctors prescribed chocolate as a treatment for venereal disease.
• Ducks can get the flu.
• The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.
• Most married men sleep on the right side of the bed. Divorced men often switch to the left.
• The most common time to sight a UFO is 11pm.
• According to research, you’ll blow your nose about 250 times this year.
• What area of your body has the most bacteria? Between your toes.
• On the day that "The Wizard of Oz's" Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.
• The last United States train robbery took place in 1933.
• In the Middle Ages, you were supposed to throw eggs at the bride and groom.
• Snakes can get malaria.
• It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space.
• It takes around 200,000 frowns to create a permanent brow line.
• Siberia means "sleeping land."
• Fish cough.
• Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
• At Old English weddings, guests through shoes at the groom.
• Clams can live as long as 150 years.
• Can you flare your nostrils? Only 30% of humans can.
• If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
• Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling.
• Charles Darwin's cousin invented the IQ test.
• Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant.
• It takes about 30 minutes for an aspirin to find a headache.
• Niagara Falls was created by a glacier.
• You use 15 different muscles in your face to laugh.
• The fastest-moving land snail is the common garden snail whose top speed is 55 yards per hour or 0.0313 mph.
• A 1,200 pound horse eats about 15 lbs. of hay and nine pounds of grain everyday (seven times its own weight each year).
• The skin on your eyelid is one one-thousandth of an inch deep (the thinnest); the skin on your back is one-fifth of an inch (the thickest). The average wink, or blink, lasts one-tenth of a second.
• The knee-high measurement of an average-sized grasshopper is about 1/2 inch.
• The official record for kite flying is 12,471 feet set by Abbott Rotch, director of the U.S. Weather Bureau station in Milton Massachusetts. He set that record on Feb. 28,1898.
• Los Angeles Police Department ballistics experts say that the fastest bullet is fired from a .223 caliber rifle and travels at 3,500 feet per second, more Than 3 times the speed of sound.
• Only about half of all spiders spin webs.
• The Yo-yo is believed to be the second-olders toy in the world after dolls. The Greeks played with yo-yos as far back as 500 B.C.
• In the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 6 of the tower’s eight floors are without safety rails. More than 250 people have fallen to their deaths since 1174.
• The average wink or blink of an eye lasts one-tenth of a second.
• An ecstatically weeping woman paid $8,625 at an auction for a pair of horseshoes worn by Mr. Ed.
• Ratio of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who are hearing impaired: 3 in 5.
• 5% of Americans let their dishes pile up for a couple of days before washing them.
• 3000 cows are needed to supply the leather for a year’s supply of NFL footballs.
• 40 bottles of sunscreen are used monthly by cast and crew of Baywatch.
• The average American uses 12 gallons of water while showering.

LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES:

• Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
• Eric II, King of Denmark, died in 1104. He was know as Eric the memorable, but no one can
• remember why.
• In 1978 Saudi Arabia had to import 5 tons of sand from Holland (for use in swimming pool filters.)
• In a survey of 5,000 U.S. nurses, 40 percent said they would not recommend the medical facility
• where they worked to a relative.
• 60% of the swimsuits sold in the U.S. never get wet.
• According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the number of injuries caused by plug-in air fresheners is 1,823.
• The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
• American car horns beep in the tone of F.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
• A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
• The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
• Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
• Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.