Sunday, October 30

Stuff I bet you never knew...

- 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.


- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.


- The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.


- Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.


- Almonds are members of the peach family.


- More people are born daily in India then there are people living in Australia


- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.


- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.


- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.


- A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.


Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you.


If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.


Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water.


Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.


A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.




In Japan they have square watermelons.




It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.


'Dreamt' is the ONLY WORD in the entire English language that ends in the letters 'mt'.


'Dysania' is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.


Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.


The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.




The following has nothing to do with random facts... enjoy 



...Dakz out...



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