8.07.52 AM Amazing fact 35 |
Mexican
Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them. Men laugh
longer, louder, and more often than women. Men are 6
times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. Men are 6
times more likely to be struck by lightning than women! Mel Gibson
has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)! Mel Blanc,
the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. Mel Blanc
(the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots! Medical
studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. McDonald's
salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers! McDonald's
is the world's largest distributor of toys! Martha
Stewart became a billionaire while in prison. Marlboro
cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in
all other states! Mark Twain
didn't even make it through elementary school. Many people
in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions,
and locusts. Manhattan
Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in
1624! Males sweat
40% more than females. Male monkeys
lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do. Male
hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients. Malaysians
protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer. Mailing an
entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a
40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates. Maggots will
only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove
the burnt skin from severe burn patients. Louisiana is
the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits
from the Mississippi River). Los
Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula'! London's
Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807! Liquid TIDE
laundry detergent glows under a blacklight. Linen is
actually stronger when wet. Linen can
absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp! Lima beans
contain cyanide! Like
fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! Lightning
strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! Less than 3%
of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for
drinking purposes! Less than
10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime. Leonardo
DiCaprio got his first ?onscreen kiss? from a man! Leonardo da
Vinci invented scissors. Lenny
Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'. Last 2
European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein
(1984). Large
kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump! Lake
Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has
sharks. Koala Bears
are not bears. Kleenex
tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks. Kittens are
born both blind and deaf. Kite flying
is a professional sport in Thailand. King George
I could not speak English! Kilts are
not native to Scotland. They originated in France. Ketchup was
sold in the 1830's as medicine. Kermit the
frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the
state of New York in 1996. Keanu Reeves
is afraid of the dark. Karate
actually originated in India, but was developed further in China. Justin
Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay! Just one in
three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month. Jupiter's
moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury! Jumbo jets
use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off . Johnny Depp
suffers from self-injury. John F.
Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA! John F.
Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy! Jimmy
Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately, Riddle. Jimmy Carter
is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital. Jimi
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died. Jericho is
the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old! Jennifer
Aniston's original name is Jennifer Anastassakis! Jean -Claude
Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.'' James Bond
is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang. Jacksonville,
Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States. Jackie
Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker. J. Edgar
Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands. It?s a
common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister?s
daughter. It's
possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. It's illegal
to own a red car in Shanghai, China. It's against
the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas. It's against
the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas! It's against
the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska! It would
take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a
mid-size 1960's car did. It was once
against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland! It was once
against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! It was
illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling
dolls without human faces. It was
discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. It took
20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal. It takes up
to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg. It takes
twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil. It takes the
same amount of time to age a cigar as wine. It takes six
months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota. It takes
Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from
the core of the sun to it's surface. It takes
five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber. It takes
eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. It takes
about a week to make a jelly bean. It takes a
drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world. It takes 492
seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth! It takes
3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of
footballs. It takes 17
muscles to smile, 43 to frown. It takes 100
pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth. It snows
more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is
possible to see a rainbow at night! It is
possible to go blind from smoking too heavily. It is
possible for a scorpion to sting itself to death as they are not immune to
their own poison! It is
physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. It is now
possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer! It is
illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is
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