Assorted Facts 4
Eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test, will make you test positive for opium usage.
During the 13th century, the word girl meant any young person, whether male or female.
The sewing machine was patented on July 17, 1790.
At the end of World War 1 the average price for a gallon of gasoline was 25 cents. Thirty years later the average price had risen only to 26 cents a gallon.
The largest desert in the world is on the continent of Antarctica. The yearly precipitation is only about 2 inches of snow for most of the continent.
The worlds first general use electronic computer was completed in 1946. Called ENIAC, it contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes and measured around 8 feet tall and about 78 feet long!
The Pacific Ocean contains about 25,000 islands.
By the time he was twelve years old, Daniel Boone was already an expert hunter and trapper.
If all the gold suspended in the earth's oceans was "mined", there would be enough for every person on earth to receive 9 pounds!
Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.
There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection.
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
There is a type of coffin made that can be used as a wine rack or picnic table before its final use.
There is cyanide in apple pips.
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg.
The smallest is the male sperm.
Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands.
A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
There is an area located off the south-eastern Atlantic coast of the United States called the "Bermuda Triangle." It is known for a high rate of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft, which has led some people to believe that this triangle has supernatural powers.
To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages.
To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice.
To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed.
There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
There is an organization called SCROOGE in Charlottesville, Virginia that stands for Society to Curtail Ridiculous, Outrageous, and Ostentatious Gift Exchanges. This was formed to keep gift giving affordable and simple.
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, was too ill to attend his own wedding. So for the 1853 ceremony to Marie Henrietta, the Austrian Emperor's brother, the Archduke Charles, stood in for him.
There is a Harley-Davidson that was designed as an exact replica of a hamburger.
There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.
Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines.
In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year".
Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes.
Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising.
In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get".
About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.
In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs.
A rollercoaster has no engine.
70% of all Land Rovers ever made are estimated to still be on the road.
Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice.
The first hot-air balloon was launched from Versailles in 1783.
The unit 'foot' was originally the length of a human foot (12 inches).
In Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale 40 degrees below zero is the same.
The first 3-Wheeler accident took place in 1769.
At the same thickness hair is strong as a wire of iron.
Every year a huge icehotel of about 4 000 m2 is built in the village Jukkasjaervi in Sweden.
The first popcorn machine was invented by Charlie Cretors in 1885.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The inch represents the width of a thumb.
The opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.
Broken clocks are right twice a day.
VHS stands for Video Home System.
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
A dentist, William Semple, invented chewing gum to exercise his jaws.
It was a Swede in 1892 who invented the adjustable spanner.
The temperature in a flame is lower close to the source and highest near the top.
Golden Gate Bridge took about four years to build.
The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939.
Most lubricants will disappear in space.
Cotton is heavier than water.
The maximum speed of Titanic was 23 knots.
BMW made the first jet engine.
Porsche also build tractors.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
Hacky sack was invented in Turkey.