Here is a post that is a result of avoiding getting anything necessary done and too much time on the internet. Here are some strange facts and not so deep questions I ran across:
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: month, orange, purple, and silver.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Did you know that tigers have striped skin and not just striped fur?
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of toads is called a knot.
About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.
About 85% of the plant life on the Earth is in the ocean.
A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.
A woodchuck breathes only ten times during hibernation.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.
Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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.
It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.
It takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut butter.
It is against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska
J.S.Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second.
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
A man had the hiccups for 69 years.
A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt lightbulb
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A starfish can turn its self inside out.
Not So Deep Questions:
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
How is it possible to have a "civil" war?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
