Friday, October 19, 2007

Even More Useless (and maybe incorrect) Facts #3

There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.

Cat urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of
the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers. They saw it as
competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

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

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you
pass gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
(Maybe too many people saw the movie, "Arachnophobia.")

Do you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne
cork than by a poisonous spider?

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

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