Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Useless but funny information

I am sure ALL of this is true. After all, it was published on the Internet.

• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. (And how many of you are going to try this right now?)
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MUSTACHE
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. (I’ll take mine with 2 cream and 2 sugar, please)
• Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!

• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
o So did the first "Marlboro Man."

• Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
• PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!

• The three most valuable brand names on earth (in order):
o Marlboro
o Coca Cola, and
o Budweiser

• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but, not downstairs.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

And the best for last.....
• Turtles can breathe through their butts.

1 comment:

i2cool2fool said...

I knew the Duck info was a hoax AND had a feeling that you'd be the one to notice! ;) After all, you are a Mythbuster Addict.

For more background info....The sound made by some female ducks is called a "quack"; a common (and false) urban legend is that quacks do not produce an echo (false, because the acoustic variances of both a duck's quack and its echo are so similar, they almost swallow one another).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck