- As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
- The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
- The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
- There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
- Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
- Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- The Spanish word esposa means “wife.” The plural, esposas, means “wives,” but also “handcuffs.”
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Genral funny facts
- An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
- Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
- Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
10 facts about friendship
- Don't worry about knowing people just make yourself
worth knowing - Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and
then wait to hear the answer. - If you can buy a person's friendship, it is not worth it.
- True friends have hearts that beat as one.
- If you cannot think of any nice things to say about your
friends, then you have the wrong friends. - . Make friends before you need them.
- If you were another person, would you like to be a friend
of yours? - A good friend is one who neither looks down on you nor
keeps up with you. - Be friendly with the folks you know. If it weren't for
them you would be a total stranger. - . A friend is never known till he is needed
Five amazing fact about falling in love
- Falling In Love Only Takes One Fifth Of A Second.
- Falling In Love Elicits The Same Euphoric Feeling As Using Cocaine
- Falling In Love Affects Sophisticated Cognitive Functions, including Mental Representation, Metaphors and Body Image
- Passionate Love Is Sparked By The Reward Center Of The Brain
- Love At First Sight Is A Result Of Increased Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) In The Blood
some more facts funny
- Eleven percent of women have gone online and done research on a person they were dating or were about to meet, versus seven percent of men.
- . Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
- The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
- The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.
- Forty-three percent of women prefer their partners never sign "love" to a card unless they are ready for commitment.
- People who are newly in love produce decreased levels of the hormone serotonin — as low as levels seen in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perhaps that's why it's so easy to feel obsessed when you're smitten.
- Philadelphia International Airport finished as the No. 1 best airport for making a love connection, according to an online survey.
- According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you'll make a love match.
- . A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex
- Every Valentine's Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.
some interesting facts
- Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
- People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!
- When it comes to doing the deed early in the relationship, 78 percent of women would decline an intimate rendezvous if they had not shaved their legs or underarms.
- Feminist women are more likely than other females to be in a romantic relationship.
- Two-thirds of people report that they fall in love with someone they've known for some time vs. someone that they just met.
- There's a reason why office romances occur: The single biggest predictor of love is proximity.
- Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover's memory.
- Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses — pupil dilation, sweaty palms, and increased heart rate.
- . Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate — the part of the brain involving cravings.
- The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth
- The "Love Detector" service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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