Little known facts

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

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14 The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.

18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Tootsie.'

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.



I can just see my next hospital trip!!!!!!!

Hmmm... interesting!

the eating spiders in our sleep fact is disturbing

green coke eewww

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Posted by BKtoLI

2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

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how is that biologically possible?

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Posted by BKtoLI

26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

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COOL!

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Posted by BKtoLI

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

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And Harry gets his own plane for himself and his massive package.

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Posted by iamvocal72

green coke eewww

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It true - sorry if TMI but I once had a few too many rum and cokes and lets just say when it came back out it was green!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

I am so very proud of this! LEFTIES RULE!...and they also die earlier than righties

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Posted by JanuaryBride06

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Posted by BKtoLI

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.

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And Harry gets his own plane for himself and his massive package.

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22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.


Even when they were lil???? Did half the family go on one plane...are harry and william allowed to fly together???

Geez the questions to ponder tonight!!!

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Posted by waterspout4

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.



I can just see my next hospital trip!!!!!!!

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That one stood out to me too!

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Posted by Chrissywish

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.


Even when they were lil???? Did half the family go on one plane...are harry and william allowed to fly together???

Geez the questions to ponder tonight!!!

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bill gates and his wife do the same thing...to be sure someone is alive to take care of the children.