Monday, November 8, 2010

50 Facts

(Copied from: www.iluko.com, Contributed by Atty Leo Beligan)
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer. 

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. 

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. 

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. 

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. 

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine. 

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. 

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 

12. There are no clocks inLas Vegas g@mbling casin0s. 

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. 

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. 

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"! 

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. 

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors sothey don't know you're there. 

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. 

20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. 

21. Michael Jordan makes moremoney from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. 

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. 

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. 

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. 

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. 


27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321. 

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp. 

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. 

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt". 

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off". 

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head. 

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime. 

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines . 

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil. 

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year. 

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. 

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans. 

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka . 

46. There are more chickens than people in the world. 

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog. 

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest. 

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al". 

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C. (tBefore 1990  when cell phones were not yet invented).

HOW TO KEEP A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY AND DRIVE OTHER PEOPLE INSANE

(Copied from www.iluko.com, posted by Marjorie)

1. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
2. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is the opposite gender.
3. Put mosquito netting around your cubicle.
4. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
6. When driving colleagues around, insist on keeping your car's windshield wipers running during all weather conditions to keep 'em tuned up.
7. Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
8. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers, then cc them to your boss.
9. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
10. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
11. Specify that your drive-thru order is "to go."
12. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.

Why Some Men Have Dogs and Not Wives

(Copied from www.iluko.com, posted by cirena)

1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 

2. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name. 

3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 

4. A dog's parents never visit. 

5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across. 

6. You never have to wait for a dog; they're ready to go 24 hours a day. 

7. Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk.

8. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing. 

9. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?" 

10. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away. 

11. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert. 

12. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad. They just think it's interesting. 

13. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck. 

14. If a dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff. 

Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car for an hour.
Then open the trunk and see who's happy to see you. 

THINGS YOU MIGHT NEED TO KNOW!!!

(Copied from: www.iluko.com, contributed by cirena)
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 
(Hardly seems worth it.) 

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.. 
(Now that's more like it !) 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 
(O.M.G.!) 

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. 

(In my next life, I want to be a pig...) 

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) 
(I'm still not over the pig.) 

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour 
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work) 


The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. 
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?) 

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. 
(30 minutes. Lucky pig! Can you imagine?) 

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. 
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) 

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. 
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity) 

Butterflies taste with their feet. 
(Something I always wanted to know.) 

The strongest m uscle in the body is the tongue. 
(Hmmmmmm....) 

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. 
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) 

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. 
(Okay, so that would be a good thing) 

A cat's urine glows under a black light.. 
(I wonder how much the government paid to figure that out.) 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
(I know some people like that.) 

Starfish have no brains 
(I know some people like that too.) 

Polar bears are left-handed. 
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer) 

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. 
(What about that pig?? Do the dolphins know about the pig?) 

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread t hese crazy facts and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to, maybe even a chuckle. 

In other words, send it to everyone! 
(and God love that pig!)