Friday, January 12, 2007
The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. (Kiki! I never knew you could do that!)
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (And that makes Venus special, and that is why women are from Venus. We're special. Heh. )
Coca-Cola was originally green. (Eww.)
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. (Talk about horny..)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight" comes from.
Snoring is prohibited in Massachusetts unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked. It is also illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18. (I still have time!)
Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (Bet that isn't the case for my classmate. Haha.)
The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds on it.
X O X O; 11:20 pm