Monday, September 14, 2015

Interesting Facts Of The Day

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”).

Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually.

Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

The most frequently named bugs from the Bible are: Locust: 24, Moth: 11, Grasshopper: 10, Scorpion: 10, Caterpillar: 9, and Bee: 4.


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Friday, September 11, 2015

Interesting Facts Of The Day

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.

Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.

A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian not a Sadist.

What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.


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Monday, August 24, 2015

Interesting Facts of the Day

It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.


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