Did You Know ???

[ladyhawk]

I have come across some "odd bits" that I thought I would share and hope you all will join in....

Did you know that:

The short-term memory capacity for most ppl is between 5 and 9 items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to 7 digits for so long.


Starfish don't have brains.


Cats have better memories than dogs.


The average human will drink about 72,737 litres of water in a lifetime.



The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia.


If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
If you try to supress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.


The catfish has more than 27,000 taste buds.


Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.


Have you got any other useless but interesting "bits"...????

 

[MOTH]

ummmm. thinking......will get back to ya!

 

[Acorah's Angel]

Erm.... err... hmmm....will have to ditto MOTH on that one.... how slack of me

 

[JacqS]

hmmm....think I remember reading some of those....does ladyhawk by any chance buy the same brand of 'feminine protection' that I do...coz like, we all sit there and read the printing on the sticky paper, dont we (um, well, obviously I did, coz I knew it was written there?!)

did you know....
arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth!!

 

[Acorah's Angel]

Ok, these are useless...

The lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days.

The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.

 

[ladyhawk]

Here are some more useless"bits" for you


Did you know that:


Turtles and Honeybees are deaf.


Sound at the right vibration frequency can bore holes through a solid object.


If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white (please don't do this)


Between the ages of 30-70, your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5cm.


In the last 4000yrs, no new animals have been domesticated.


Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.


1.5 billion kilograms of chocolate are consumed worldwide each year.


The King of Hearts is the only King without a moustache.

 

[lozzie]

The short-term memory capacity for most ppl is between 5 and 9 items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to 7 digits for so long.

It's called 7 plus or minus nine... However, the reason we can remember more than that is through chunking ege when you think of a mobile number, we chunk it into 3 parts

 

[skinnybrad]

no i cant say i did know some of this

 

[ladyhawk]

They are the most 'odd bits' which you will never need, but they r interesting.....


So here are a few more for you all to ponder.

Did you know that:


A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of 3 mths.


The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

 

[elm0]

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

That's all well and good, but did it cross the road?

 

[MOTH]

I know nothing Don't ask me again

 

[prodromos]

A woman gives birth every five minutes.

What we have to do is find this woman and stop her!

 

[Miss_Music]

^LOL!

a crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue

 

[Injured Soldier]

The middle name of the former US President Harry Truman was the letter S.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other. Simultaneously.

But he has nothing on former US President, James A. Garfield. He could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other. Simultaneously.

Meanwhile, former Russian tsar Alexander III's pasttime was straightening and re-bending iron horseshoes on his head!

The first Eskimo Bible was printed in Copenhagen in 1744.

Before an Egyptian Pharaoh's son could become Pharaoh, he usually had to marry his sister or half-sister. Ewwww.

The caputured king of the Incas, Atahualpa, promised to pay Pizarro a ransom to be set free. The ransom was a room full of gold. The room was 7 metres long and 5 metres wide. It was to be filled to two and a half metres high. To make sure Pizarro held his side of the bargain, Atahualpa had it filled with gold, then filled twice more to the same height with silver. In 2002 prices, the ransom was well over $50 million US. And in the end Pizarro convinced Atahualpa to become a Christian, then killed him.

 

[Bevlina]

Did you know this Useless Info?

There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
A ducks quack does not echo.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

 

[MOTH]

What happens when the worms have finished eating themselves?

 

[Injured Soldier]

A ducks quack does not echo.

I wondered how long this would take before it came up. Read this.

What happens when the worms have finished eating themselves?

They poop themselves into their own mouths, what else?

 

[Woody]

Cats cant move their jaws sideways

 

[ladyhawk]

Well I never knew that and I have had cats most of my life.

 

[ladyhawk]

Well out of the murky depths it comes .....

In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast ...
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain ....

More to follow ....