Archive for the 'Strange but True' Category

Amazing human facts.

1: Chinese and Japanese babies are born with blue marks on their bottoms that disappear when they get older.

2: The brain uses as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.

3: You grow a new outer skin every 27 days.

4: When you blush your stomach goes red as well as your face.

5: You have 2 million glands in your skin that produce sweat.

People

1: Neil Armstrong stepped o­n the moon with his left foot!

2: Mel Blanc (thevoice of bugs bunny) was allergic to carrots!
3: Marilyn Monroe had six toes o­n o­ne foot!

4: William Semple a dentist invented chewing gum to exercise the jaw!
5: Pope John Paul the 2nd became a honorary Harlem Globetrotter in the year 2000!

6: Amateur Boxer Joe Flanagin named his two sons Bob and Weave!
7: Drivers kill more deer than hunters!

Cliches and there origins.

Acid Test: This phrase derives from nitric acid was used to determine the purity of gold when it was used as currency in the days before coinage.

The Full Monty: This phrase derives from Field Marshall Montgomery’s insistence of a full English breakfast every morning.
Boxing Day: The day after Christmas derives from a 17th Century custom of servants recieving gratitudes from their masters collected in boxes.

Animal strangeness

1. A Giraffe has a 21-inch long tounge, it can clean it’s ears with it, hmmmm!

2. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

3. The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

4. Dolphins sleep with their eyes open!

5. Slugs have 4 noses! (not good if it gets a cold)!

6. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real o­nes!

The Human Body

1. The average person in their life time will eat 60.000 pounds of food, the weight of six elephants! <P>

2. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet! <P>

3. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year! <P>

4. Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin! (Nice). <P>