30 Things I Bet You Didn't Know on Sunday, October 11, 2009:
- If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
- An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
- In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
- Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- A jellyfish is 95% water.
- The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
- Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called “Solarmax”.
- A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
- 25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.
- The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
- A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
- The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Starfish have no brains.
- Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
- The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
