INTERESTING FACTS and SCIENCE

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

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

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both Front legs in the air (the horse, that is), the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The most common name in the world is Mohamed.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

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

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English Law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider that your thumb.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy from an atomic bomb.

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

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.

Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.

Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

lightbulb inventor, Edison, was afraid of the dark!

Coca-Cola was originally green.

A snail can sleep for three years.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!