Saturday, 7 June 2014

Some useless piece of information you will want to remember


The plastic tip at the end of a shoelace is called the aglet. From Phineas and Ferb.

The dot on the top of a lowercase i and j is called a 'tiddle'.

Vending machines kill more people than sharks.

Cows kill more people than sharks.

Falling coconuts kill more people than sharks.

Octopus have 9 brains and 5 hearts.

Technically, humans have 2 brains: the widely known one and the enteric nervous system.

The remnants of any liquid left in a Glass or container is called the "Dregs".

In order to determine if the female giraffe is fertile, the male giraffe headbutts the female in the abdomen until she forcibly urinates. He then tastes the urine and is able to tell her state of fertility.

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Bats will always exit the left side of the cave

Ducks have corkscrew penises and vaginas that spin in opposite directions

Kangaroos can't jump backwards

Elephants can't jump at all.

If you add the numbers of a roulette wheel the sum is 666.

Fingernails and hair are made of the same stuff.

Otters have belly pouches where they hide their favorite rock.

India Pale Ale (IPA) is a type of beer that has an extremely high amount of hops because british soldiers in colonial India needed it to act as a preservative over the long shipment from Britain. When they returned to Britain, they demanded that the breweries continue making their beer in this way. It is now considered a standard type of beer.

Flies are mechanical vectors. Which sounds much more interesting than it is.

Hippos produce pink milk.

Pneumonoultamicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses
The longest word in the English dictionary, it's a disease in which volcanic ash end up in your lungs

We are all living in the past because it takes a very small fraction of a second for information to travel to our brain.

That one million seconds equals 11 days; one billion seconds equals 33 years

The most destructive hurricane ever to hit North America was named Hurricane Andrew.

Your foot and your forearm are exactly the same length.

It took Apollo 11 ~ 3 days to get to the moon.
the New Horizons spacecraft made it there in 9 hours

There are 14 words in the English language that end in "-dous".

Sea otters are known to drown and rape baby seals.

Pineapple contains enzymes that degrade flesh. So when you eat a piece of a pineapple, it's basicaly a competition of who eats who first.

A black mamba. Can slither at speeds up to 12.5 mph. That's as fast as the average human sprints.

Some turtles can breathe through their butts

'Dessert' is spelled with two Ss for strawberry shortcakeAmerican Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing a single olive from each serving of salad in the first class cabins.

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes

London is the capital of Great Britain

There are 4 Brazilian insect species in which the females possess a penis, while the males possess a vagina.

Fish are like trees. They're scales can be counted like the age rings in a tree trunk.

You can't make cheese out of human breast milk because it lacks the chemical that allows for coagulation.

Pikachu's Pokedex number in Pokemon is #25.

The camel's kidneys and intestines are so efficient that their urine is as thick as syrup, and their feces is dry enough to be lit on fire as is.

The guy that invented the calculator also was the first to wear a wrist watch

There is a body part that can grow 10 times it's normal size when stimulated.
The pupil.

If you have 2 legs, you have more legs than the average person.

Cockroaches fart about once every 15 minutes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    




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