Bet You Didn't Know These...

I read this on a website some time ago... but I totally forgot the website:( If you happen to own the website, please don't sue me!! Be prepared cos the list is looong but entertaining and informative! Pay attention to the last one...

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. (My rubber bands will be in the refrigerator from now on)

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!!

• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

• There are more chickens than people in the world.

• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

• Almonds are a member of the peach family.

• There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. (Hmmm... must watch those ads from now on)

• The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
  

• A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. (Sounds like some people I know...)

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Maybe the eyes would pop-out?)

• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. (Huh??)

• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Gross!!!)

• Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (Really? Anyone from Finland?)

• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. * 35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

• If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. (This I gotta try!)

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (Works when you need sympathies)

• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Woohoo!!)

• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

• A snail can sleep for 3 years. (Lucky snail)

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

And last and definitely most important:

• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it! (Eeewww... I'm laying off chocolates for good!)