30 Things I Bet You Didn't Know on Wednesday, October 7, 2009:
- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
- The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
- Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
- 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. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
- The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
- The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
- A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
- The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.
- Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Rats and horses can’t vomit.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
