Strange Facts

[xoButterfly25]

I was bored and looking up strange facts, so I thought I'd post a load of them here to see if you knew any of them or find them strange, also feel free to add your own

• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
• A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories.
• An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
• A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt light bulb.
• A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
• About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
• Lobsters have blue blood.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
• Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
• The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.
• The average person’s hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.
• Thermometers were once filled with brandy.
• Blood is six times thicker than water.
• Coca-cola was originally sold as a brain tonic.
• Honey is used as a center for golf balls.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple and dreamt.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
• The majority of dust in your home consists of your own dead skin.
• Coke was originally green in colour.
• Red food coloring is made with crushed beetles/beetles blood.
• The symbol & was once the 27th letter of our alphabet.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
• Honey is the only food which doesn't spoil.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
• Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year by the weight of books.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
• Donkeys kill more people yearly than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it willinstantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

 

[EricIndiana]

Lipstick has fish scales in it? Yuck! Here's one: The Confectioner's glaze used in many chocolate covered candies is made from secretion of the female lac beetle, which is ground up in the manufacturing process.

I have some other strange facts for you - but you'll have to find my Daisybrain website to see them.

 

[sarah0108]

ohh they are cool

 

[happyfeet]

Some things you would not know

 

[rwhite]

I was bored and looking up strange facts, so I thought I'd post a load of them here to see if you knew any of them or find them strange, also feel free to add your own

• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
• A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories.
• An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
• A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt light bulb.
• A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
• About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
• Lobsters have blue blood.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
• Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
• The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.
• The average person’s hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.
• Thermometers were once filled with brandy.
• Blood is six times thicker than water.
• Coca-cola was originally sold as a brain tonic.
• Honey is used as a center for golf balls.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple and dreamt.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
• The majority of dust in your home consists of your own dead skin.
• Coke was originally green in colour.
• Red food coloring is made with crushed beetles/beetles blood.
• The symbol & was once the 27th letter of our alphabet.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
• Honey is the only food which doesn't spoil.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
• Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year by the weight of books.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
• Donkeys kill more people yearly than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it willinstantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

 

[Naya69]

i was shocked at the newborn one thats horrible

 

[katix333]

i know! thats shocking!

 

[brennakay]

One more for you - approximately every 10 years every single bone cell will have been replaced by a new bone cell. So you have an entirely different skeleton now than you did 10 years ago! lol

 

[x-Rainbow-x]

some very interesting facts there

 

[Jadelm]

I like this. Always interested in random facts but then I tell people and they simply don't care *sigh* x

 

[morri]

Modern bananas are sterile
Strawberries, raspberries aren't berries, but banana, peppers, cucumber, are.

the spicyness of chillies is not in the seeds but in the inner skin.

 

[maaybe2010]

I was bored and looking up strange facts, so I thought I'd post a load of them here to see if you knew any of them or find them strange, also feel free to add your own

• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
• A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories.
• An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
• A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt light bulb.
• A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
• About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
• Lobsters have blue blood.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
• Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
• The average human eyelash lives about 150 days.
• The average person’s hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.
• Thermometers were once filled with brandy.
• Blood is six times thicker than water.
• Coca-cola was originally sold as a brain tonic.
• Honey is used as a center for golf balls.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple and dreamt.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
• The majority of dust in your home consists of your own dead skin.
• Coke was originally green in colour.
• Red food coloring is made with crushed beetles/beetles blood.
• The symbol & was once the 27th letter of our alphabet.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
• Honey is the only food which doesn't spoil.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
• Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year by the weight of books.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
• Donkeys kill more people yearly than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it willinstantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Exactly what i thought!
That's one of my biggest fears