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500 Mostly Useless Facts

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:57:52 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: [excerpt]

Clip Source: www.djtech.net

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

23. The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

27. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

32. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

35. Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

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

52. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

57. In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

58. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

60. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

63. %60 of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography.

65. Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

67. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

71. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

75. Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

83. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.

84. 1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant.

88. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

91. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

92. The strongest muscle (Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.

Tags: lists, useless, facts

40 facts about sleep

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:40:19 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: [excerpt]

Clip Source: abc.net.au

-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

- It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

- Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

- A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year

- One of the best predictors of insomnia later in life is the development of bad habits from having sleep disturbed by young children.

- The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM (rapid eye-movement) sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper.

- REM sleep occurs in bursts totalling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep.

- Dreams, once thought to occur only during REM sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent) in non-REM sleep phases. It's possible there may not be a single moment of our sleep when we are actually dreamless.

- REM dreams are characterised by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery - obsessively returning to a suspicion you left your mobile phone somewhere, for example.

- Certain types of eye movements during REM sleep correspond to specific movements in dreams, suggesting at least part of the dreaming process is analagous to watching a film

- No-one knows for sure if other species dream but some do have sleep cycles similar to humans.

- Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.

Tags: sleep, lists, facts, health

List of lists

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:43:28 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso

Clip Source: www.listof.org

The website www.listof.org is a place where one can find lists of almost anything to suit their needs. The lists are divided by subject and can be browsed easily to find what you are looking for.

One of the types of lists that are offered includes lists dealing with historical facts. If you are looking for a president, places or battles during a war, or even a list of the state capitals, this is one place to look. For those interested in present day material, careers, colleges and universities, dental schools, insurance companies, etc. are all available for your browsing needs.

This is one place to go if you are expecting a baby and need a variety of both boy and girls names to look up. If you are still at the stage where you are engaged, wedding songs and love songs are lists available for your use.

list of all fruits

list of imax theaters

free list of government grants

list of popular wedding songs

list of home based businesses

list of california cities

list of safest cars

list of insurance companies

list of games for xbox

list of settlement companies

list of movies

list of breeds of horses

list tribes of native americans

list of all sports

list of michigan lawyers

list of all drugs

list of drop shippers

list of area codes

list of weight loss programs

list of presidents

list of baby girls names

list of popes

list of interview questions

list of all endangered species

list of all colleges universities

list of holidays

list of religions

list of types of dogs

list of civil war battles

list of boy names

list of high fiber foods

list of actresses

list of low carbohydrate foods

list of radio stations

list of the ten commandments

list of famous inventors

list of state capitals

list of trucking companies

list of software companies

list of band names

list of dental schools

Tags: lists, website, reference

Peanuts Kill More Americans Than Terrorists

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:52:20 GMT

clipped by: kankamuso
clipper's remarks: Open your eyes.

Clip Source: www.prisonplanet.com

The menace of global terrorism has been labeled the greatest threat to western civilization since communism and yet swimming pools, peanuts and lost deer kill more Americans every single year. Why are our governments facilitating the terrorist's agenda by hyping a peril that simply doesn't exist?

The number of Americans killed as a result of international terrorism since the 1960's gives us a benchmark from which we can correctly identify and target other dire dangers to our very way of life.

- Allergic reactions to peanuts

- Accident causing deer

- Lightning strikes

That's correct - all of the above have killed an equal number of Americans since 1960 as terrorism. One could even categorize M&M's, lost deer and the weather as an "axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world," as George Bush famously once said.

Fear is a lie.

False
Evidence
Appearing
Real.

Tags: fud, terror, facts, lies