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Ok, I can see not much has been added since my last post lol. So, I've collected a few more tidbits to share. Here goes:

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
• Greece's national anthem consists of a total of 158 four line verses.
• When you lick a stamp, you consume approx one-tenth of a calorie.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
• The laryngeal prominence is more commonly known as the adams apple
• It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to excercise in public - naked! (the olympics itself used to be a men-only occasion and the contestants were completely naked)
• The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle ("Gluteus Maximus)
• The statue of Liberty's nose is 1.48 M in length
• A sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
• Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightening than women!
• The movie "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film to show a toilet flushing.
• Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
• A baseballer by the name of Jim Wohlford was once quoted as saying, "Ninety percent of the game is half mental" !!!! Now, how does that work??? lol

 

Yep, fish can drown!! The reason being that when a fish is out of water, the water molecules on the fish's gills stick together, causing the gills themselves to stick together and oxygen cannot pass through gills, so technically they drown.

Also Bears don't actually hibernate (not a TRUE hibernation anyway). Hibernation is a specific term used to refer to a long-term torpor in cold weather. What the heck is torpor you ask? Well it's basically a natural hypothermia where an animal is able to significantly lower their metabolic rate and their ability to respond to stimuli. The reason why bears don't actually hibernate is that they only reduce their metabolic rate slightly (for an animal of their size to wake up from a proper hibernation would require them to consume more energy than that required to remain at a normal metabolic rate for the period, and would take more than a day). But they neither do they eat or drink, or pass urine or faeces - it's more of a case of them enduring a long period of starvation than an actual hibernation. Females can even give birth and nurse cubs during this period.

And lastly, some arctic fish and crustaceans have a chemical in their blood which acts as an anti-freeze, so that the animal can appear frozen, but once the ice clears they become active again.

Now how many of you knew that?! - Unkown Author

Food for thought: If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?      

 

Someone that moves and waves their hands about when speaking is gesticulating.

I didn't even know there was a word for that until today! pmsl

did you know that a female rat can smell defective genes in a male and if there is a group of female rats they will kill that male.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.  

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. .. . .they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.

The flushable toilet was invented by a guy who's surname was.... Crapper.

And that's exactly where the term "crap" meaning poop came from. However, it's not related in any way to the name of the game called craps.

I can't remember his first name though. Was something really boring and common anyway.

Now lets see . . .

Did you know that :

• Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC
• Cold water weighs less than hot water
• Only 1000 animal born in our seas will reach maturity
• All shrimps are born male and as they grow they become females

Well thats my bit to offer . . ENJOY . .Cheers Kellz

I have gathered a few more to muse over (hehehehehehe):

1. A condor can fly up to 15,000 feet in altitude! (now that's high!!)
2. The number 7 iron in a set of golf clubs was once called a mashie-niblick (how strange!)
3. A typical adult human body contains 206 bones
4. Nike paid $US35 for the 'Swoosh' logo in 1971 to design student Carolyn Davidson.
5. The oldest female competitor at an olympic games was 70 (1972, Lorna Johnstone - Equestrian)

Food for thought from George Carlin: If the Police arrest a Mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? 

The male honey possum, a tiny animal weighing in at a mere 9 grams at the most, has the longest spermatozoa (sperm) of the mammalian world, measuring 1/3 of a millimetre.

Australia is the only country in the world where camels are found in the wild.

 

Blondes have more hair on their heads than brunettes or red heads.