Stuff you didn't know

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Stuff you didn't know

Here's some interesting facts!

My great aunt's name is:

Erzelia Theresa Palagi Rossi Finnuchi Badessa

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".

A reported 40% of males have had same sex relations of some kind before the age of 18. Just imagine all those that are unreported...

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

I suffer from emetophobia which is an extreme fear of vomiting. This and arachnephobia are the only two fears I have. For a complete list of phobias, go to Phobalist.com.

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

Pianist/composer Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff (whom is my most favorite composer) had a hand spand so large that he could reach an octave and a fifth on the keyboard! Thats like stretching the thumb from C, past the octave C, and to the pinky touching the fifth, G! The average pianist has a spand of an octave and a second or third.

Rachmaninoff (left) with Eugene Ormandy 1932

A duck's quack doesn't echo.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears and sixty percent of cats are left-handed.

"Go." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragugsgesetz

is the longest word in the German language (and yes, this is all one word!).

The dieting industry is the ONLY business that has a 98% FAILURE rate and is still in business (good business, too, 60 Billion dollars a year strong).

1 out of 4 women ages 12-32 have disordered eating; 1 out of 6 people with an eating disorder is MALE; 2 out of 10 anorexics will DIE from their disease.

96% of Stetson professors have a PhD.

Johann Sebastion Bach was father to 27 children. Talk about being busy.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

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

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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