The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m). Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. World Tourist day is observed on September 27.
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The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.Įvery year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.Įlephants are the only mammals that can't jump. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).Ī skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, ).ġ in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue. Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.Įach of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace". The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927. It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point. The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.Īccording to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?" In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19.