Friday, January 8, 2010

Thanks!

Thank you Ms. Millard for the oxymoron for my list! See you in school!
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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