[FAO] * Queer Facts To Know *

(Please let the pics open. It may take some time on a slower connection)                                                           QUEER FACTS TO KNOW [1] Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer. [2] 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of "Happy Meals". [3] 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. [4] On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. [5] Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. [6] Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine. [7] Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. [8] Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. [9] There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. [10] Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. [11] Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. [12] The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"! [13] By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. [14] Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. [15] Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. [16] The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. [17] Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. [18] Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. [19] Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. [20] The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. [21] To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. [22] The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. [23] The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp. [24] The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. [25] Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. [26] The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. [27] Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT". [28] It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. [29] In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off". [30] A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.. [31] We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime. [32] Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines [33] Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year. [34] Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. [35] Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans. [36] When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka [37] There are more chickens than people in the world. [38] The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest. [39] There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. . [40] The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. [41] The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning. [42] The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. [43] The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer. [44] Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. [45] The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. [46] Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing. [47] You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. [48] A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks. [49] Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. [50] The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. [51] When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. [52] Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf. [53] A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded [54] "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language [55] Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself." [56] Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. [57] "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. [58] Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do. [59] The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language. [60] If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction [61] China has more English speakers than the United States [62] Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. [63] Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. [64] An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. [65] Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies. [66] Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime. [67] According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. [68] The longest place name still in use is: "Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" a New Zealand hill. [69] If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day. [70] Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building. [71] Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times. [72] More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss. [73] Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better. [74] Coca-Cola was originally green. [75] The most common name in the world is Mohammed. [76] The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. [77] There are two credit cards for every person in the United States [78] TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. [79] Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! [80] You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. [81] It is impossible to lick your elbow. [82] People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Also,it was believed in olden times that the sneeze expelled an evil spirit.                                                                                                          Need More Interesting Stuff??? Click here  Click here to Join forangelsonly Group |  Join Us thru Email     |    Join Us thru Web     |  Visit Our Group Visit Our Website

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