Skip to main content

hearken the facts - x

A few facts that you might never come across, but your life will be incomplete without:

  • A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef.
  • Russians generally answer the phone by saying, “I’m listening”.
  • The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
  • The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.
  • You big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
  • More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss!
  • Houseflies hum in the key of E.
  • More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
  • Sweden was the first country in the world to keep population statistics.
  • Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
  • A group of tigers is called a streak.
  • King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.
  • 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
  • India has more post offices than any other country.
  • Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup.
  • You skin is actually an organ.
  • Luther Crowell invented the paper bag in 1867.
  • Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
  • The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
  • The average person will drink about 16,000 gallons of water in his/her lifetime.
  • In February 2004, Sweden led the world in Internet penetration, with 76.9 per cent of people connected to the Internet. The world average 11.1 per cent.
  • Cats can hear ultrasound.
  • You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
  • Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
  • A Holstein’s spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
  • Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world’s oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
  • In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
  • There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
  • Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
  • The king of  hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

pan-himalayan railroad

Chinese press is flooding with the news of China’s newest engineering feat – the completion of a railroad linking Lhasa (Tibet) with Eastern China. The country is celebrating this key achievement while the western press is once again applauding in awe and giving out mixed speculations. For example, this photo story contains some lines: “There are fears the railway will speed up the immigration of ethnic Chinese into Tibet, threatening its distinct cultural and religious identity.” “Tibetan groups and foreign critics say the railway’s real aim is political, as a symbol of China’s administrative and military control over a contested border region.” “...............................................” “..............................” All I can say about such statements is that leading people from China will undoubtedly laugh down these types of comments made by western media companies. This task in itself is a great combination of hard work, intellect and brotherhood, which in itself is a s...
Post a Comment
Read more

the most boring page on the internet

Some people are born boring; others like John Ingram, thrust boredom upon the rest of the world. And so as we tread upon the gargantuan bog called the Internet, we slip and wonder: why? Why did John Ingram create a site that has nothing but just 413 (exactly) words of text? Why did he create a site that has no meaning, no reason to exist, and no way to earn him even a cent, forget a fortune? But it takes all kinds, and Ingram is one of those. He is rational in his thought, grammatically correct in his writing (although) for some reason he hates capital letters), and has enough reasons to keep the world’s most boring site alive at all times since its “founding” in 1996. Is that why his site has now been translated into 12 languages including Finnish, French, Swedish, Norwegian, and, hold your breath, ladies and gentleman, Pig Latin? World War II is obviously history since here we have a German as well as a Hebrew translation sitting right next to each other. The site, Ingram informs us...
2 comments
Read more

abort, retry, ignore poem

The infamous Abort, Retry, Ignore message box of Windows, with no option given to close it. Found this classic and fun poem about the "Abort, Retry, Ignore" message. I have been able to trace back the source to Annoyances.org. Here it is: Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor, Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets. Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer, I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store, Only this and nothing more. Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
 Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
 But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
 "Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
 One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
 Just, "Abort...
Post a Comment
Read more