Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Factoids

Randon facts that may or may not be interesting.

-A horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

-A bean has more DNA per cell than a human.

-A raisin dropped in a glass of champagne will travel up and down continuously from the bottom to the top of the glass.

-A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.

-A fetus acquires fingerprints at three months.

- A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

-A full grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.

-A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than starvation.

-A group of crows is called a murder.

-A hippo can open it's mouth wide enough to fit a four foot child inside.

-A jumbo jet uses 4000 gallons of fuel to take off.

-A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.

-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

-A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 grams.

-A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, IN.

-A pig is the only animal that can get sunburned.

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