Funny Things 


1. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.

2. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

5. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

6. I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

7. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

8. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

9.“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.

10. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy little dog” uses every letter in the english language.

11. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

12. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

13. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

14. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

15. Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space.

16. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.

17. Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

18. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the fourty-eight poorest nations.

19. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

20. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

21. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

22. A group of officers is called a mess.

23. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

24. Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.

25. Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!

26. Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

27. Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.

28. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!

29. In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!

30. In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!

31. In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute".

32. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

33. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

34. To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.

35. Bing team puts the amount of web pages at "over one trillion".  And Google has already indexed more than one trillion discrete web addresses. There are more addresses than there are people on Earth. The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion. That means there are about 150 web addresses per person in the world. Translated If you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept busy for 31,000 years without any sleep.


 

  

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?

By Richard Bach 

 
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