What do you think about these interesting facts?
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed… or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there, though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
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Men probably get struck more by lightning because they for the most part are taller.
We better be more careful driving when we see a squirrel on the road — not only would we be saving his life, but a tree’s
also !!
I guess Ernest Vincent Wright decided to take it EEEEEE-Z
when he decided to write “Gadsby”.
Sounds like a rather big “set” of definitions !!
We should rename the toothpick to the “throatpick” !!
Yikes! In the time it just took me to type this comment, a house just burned down – glad it wasn’t mine !!
If the sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth, maybe we should change its name to “Father” (sun/son) !!
I wonder if Ernest Vincent Wright used any “Q’s” in “Gadsby”. If he did, than the fact that E’s are used more than “Q’s” is not true in this instance !!
~ and, just a few others: ~
Good thing that Pinnoccioi wasn’t a dog — otherwise iif he needed to be identified there wouldn’t be enough ink in tthe US – or paper, for that matter !!
Let’s give Starbucks an idea for a new drink – a grande cup of apple !!
I just got back from the supermarket after buying every single banana they had. I brought home about 200 bananas, and I better start smelling them before I’m bigger than the averge ice berg !!
Talk about stretching the dollar !! If we gine
Hope Robin Hood knows aout the poisin-arrow frog !!
Finally! A tennis court worth it’s weight in GOLDv!!
That fly is really David Hedison who helped himself to some of my leftovers from the my cooking the night before !!
ENJOY !!!!
some I believe and some I don’t…..
but of course, in about 2-4 hours, I will probably forget these “facts”.. (short term memory, specially this time of day 1:24AM)
thanks for sharing
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