Friday, January 8, 2010
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Animal Fun Facts
- a mole can dig a tunnel 295 feet in one night
- without its head, a cockroach can survive for weeks before it starves
- a donkey can see all four of its feet at the same time
- dolphins sleep with one eye open
- kangaroos can't hop backward
- sharks don't have bones
- slugs have four noses
- an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
- butterflies taste with their feet
- a hedgehog's heart beats an average of 300 times a minute
- snails can sleep for three years
- the longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
- all polar bears are left-pawed
- cats have 32 muscles in each ear
- cows can walk upstairs but not down them
- giraffes can clean their ears with their tongues
- a duck's quack doesn't echo
Sports Fun Facts
- Shaquille O'Neal wears size 22 in shoes and puts a new pair on for each game
- Babe Ruth was the first one to be credited to ordering a bat with a knob on it
- Boxing was first filmed in 1894
- The fastest serve in tennis is recorded to be 154 mph
- In horse racing if a horse wins hands down it means the jockey did not lift his whip the entire time
- In the NHL home teams wear white and away teams wear dark colors because white colors would get dirty to easily on the road
- Before 1859 umpires sat on a padded rocking chair behind the home plate
- In Scotland, golf was strictly Gentlemen-Only-Ladies-Forbidden. Hence the name golf
Toy Fun Facts
- The Rubik's Cube has about 43,252,003,274,498,856,000 color configurations and only one solution
- The hacky-sack was invented in Turkey
- Play-Doh was first used as a wallpaper cleaner
- There are 121 holes on a chinese checkerboard
- Crayola crayons have been made for over 100 years
- The frisbee first started out as a pie tin
- Barbara Millicent Roberts is the full name for the toy Barbie
- Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on television
- The game Twister was originally called Pretzel
- The yo-yo started out as a weapon in the Phillipines
Car Fun Facts
- Most American car horns "beeep" in the key of F
- Over 90 car drivers admit to singing in their car
- The winshield wipers were invented by a woman
- The Peanuts characters were first animated on a Ford Fairelaine commercial in 1957
- The first car radio was invented in 1929
- Only FOUR cars were registered in 1895 in America
- The first time the VW Beetle was introduced, it sold only 330 times in the United States
- In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265
- The first ticket was given in 1902
- The first cars were controled by a lever not by a steering wheel
Technology Fun Facts
- More steel is used in bottle caps than in the body of an automobile in the U.S.
- The average car gives 1 pound of pollution for every 25 miles
- The ball on the top of the flagpole is called a truck
- Jumbo jets use 4000 gallons to take off
- A car going at the speed of 55 miles per hour will go 56 feet before the driver could lift his foot to put on the brakes
- A Toyota takes 13 hours to make
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
- Airbags kill 1 person for every 22 they save
- Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer
- Kleenex tissues were originally used as the filters for gas masks
- The earliest alarm clocks could only ring at 4am
- A Rolls Royce takes 6 months to make
- A toaster uses half the energy of a full sided oven
- Most small airplanes can fly backwards