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Other facts:

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or
older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each
salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the
engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground
loor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains
all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William
Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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.

A snail can sleep for three years.

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

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
tand seven feet, two inches tall.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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I'm going to live forever, or die trying.

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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Volgens mij doet onze aarde dat ook hoor

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"Ruimte en tijd zijn niet omstandigheden waarin wij leven, maar manieren waarop wij denken"
Albert Einstein

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A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Onderzoek bewijst dat eendenkwaak echoot
Gepost door Gerson (M4stermind) - maandag 8 september 2003 @ 23:40 - Bron: Belfast Telegraph
Wetenschappers van de Salford University in Belfast hebben aangetoond dat een kwaak van een eend een echo produceert. Grondige analyse van professor Trevor Cox en andere akoestiek-experts hebben dit aangetoond.

Tot nu toe was het gekwaak van een eend één der mysterieën der natuur, aangezien een eendenkwaak officiëel werd aangemerkt als het enige dierengeluid dat niet echoot.

Cox heeft het geluid van een eend opgenomen in een anechoïsche kamer - een kamer waar geen geluid gereflecteerd kan worden. Daarna heeft hij de kwaak van een eend opgenomen in een kamer met kathedraal-akoestiek.

De opnames zijn vervolgens in een simulatie gebruikt in de Royal Albert Hall, om aan te tonen dat de kwaak van een eend wel degelijk echoot. Uit data-analyse bleek dit inderdaad het geval.

Wel bleek de envelope van de kwaak van een eend een gradual decay te hebben, wat de echo mogelijk moeilijker maakt om te horen, "Een eend kwaakt relatief zacht, waardoor het laatste gedeelte van het weerkaatste geluid vrij zacht is, en moeilijk te horen is", zegt professor Cox.

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Nog meer 'facts' (er staan een paar eerder genoemde tussen):

Did you know .........

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
stops for a millisecond.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head
or neck and die.

If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a
single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do
so - apart from Bones ).

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti
especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta
swastikas. {Does that give you a chill or what?}

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue
twister in the English language.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by
700 times.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section
1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,1969, make it
illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their
vehicles?

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their buttocks. (HMMMM)

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders. {Yuck!}

Most lipstick contains fish scales. {Huh? I don't want to think about
it...}

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

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