Monday, April 13, 2009

More Random!

1. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
2. "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
3. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
4. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
5. China has more English speakers than the United States
6. We shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
7. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
8. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
9. Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
10. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

6 comments:

  1. How do you pronounce #7?
    #15 is really hard to read let alone say

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  2. I had headphones in when i read this post... thats really nasty.

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  3. haha that's disgusting about the shedding skin

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  4. I have no idea how to pronounce it!

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  5. I was laughing at #9 for a really long time...

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