Fun Factssssss

because when life dose not give anuf cookes and suger to keep you goin im going to do some facts that can go from one thing to anouther

like that a front part of Venera 4, the first probe to land on another planet, was made of sugar?
or
that over 5,000 people applied to the quiz show Jeopardy! to be a part of the show's Clue Crew, a team of correspondents that film videos used to accompany some of the show's clues?
stuff likie that

if you got any fun facts put them in the form

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
and that turtles can breathe through their butts
and Scooby-Doo was voiced by the same guy who played Fred
a dime has 118 ridges
dollar bills taste bad(that one I figured out myself XD)
lemur is latin for ghost

that the United States' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii?.....

The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.

If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.

A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).

One million dollars' worth of one-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

mouse dung! I had a whole booklet of these but I lost it!

the wizard of Oz was titled from a filing cabinet labeled "O-Z"
and the slippers were supposed to be silver but the filmmakers changed it to show off their ability to use color
also the guy who wrote the screenplay for the princess bride never actually read the book

The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

A green diamond is the rarest diamond.

The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick.

poor Pluto

sharks don't have bones
there's this kind of fish(or maybe it was a spider...) that is born by eating its mother from the inside out
turtles have been around since the dinosaurs were
alektorophobia is the fear of chickens
phobaphobia is the fear of phobias
you are more likely to be killed by a toilet than an airplane

A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer.

The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).

Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.

The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.

Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry.

More than 70% of earth's dryland is affected by desertification.

The US has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialised world, with more than 2 million fires reported each year.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The largest iceberg ever recorded was 335km (208 miles) long and 97km (60 miles) wide.

Luke Howard used Latin words to categorize clouds in 1803.

Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. This directional spinning has to do with the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force.

Winds that blow toward the equator curve west.

Organist William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 with the first reflecting telescope that he built. He named it Georgium Sidium in honour of King George III of England but in 1850 it was renamed Uranus in accordance with the tradition of naming planets for Roman gods.

LOL I FOUND THE TOILIT ONE FUNNY

fake snow(like at ski resorts) is made from something and i know it was really gross but i can't for my life remember what it is...............
there's a fear of chopsticks
I forget who, but some guy has eaten a blizzard from DQ in every state
in pontiac, idaho it's illegal to look unhappy
i forget where, but when doing your taxes you're supposed to list selling any illegal drugs as part of your income
in honolulu it's illegal to annoy birds
in some place its illegal to sneeze on a train(what gets me is if that means you cant sneeze while riding a train or youre not allowed to walk up to a train and sneeze on it XD)

160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of them are spam.

Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

9 out of every 1,000 computers are invected with spam.

Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

There are some 1 billion computers in use.

There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.

There are some 3 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

About 1.6 billion people connect to the internet, 450 million of them speak English.

Google indexed it's 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).

One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search sension produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.

Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

About 20% of the videos on YouTube is music related.

10 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

People view 15 billion videos online every month.

On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.

Flickr hosts some 3 billion photographs, FaceBook hosts more than 10 billion.

the avaerage american eats about 3(or 30....or maybe it was 300)lb. of cheese a year(either way it's a lot)
most white cats with blue eyes are deaf
platypuses are poisonous
the plurl of octopus is octopi

In 1750 there were about 800 million people in the world. In 1850 there were a billion more, and by 1950, another billion. Then it took just 50 years to double to 6 billion.

Half the world's population earns about 5% of the world's wealth.

There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call on a land line. However, more than half the world's population has made a cell phone call. There are more than 2 billion cell phones in use.

More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.

Most reverse charge calls takes place on Father's Day.

One in ten people in the world live on an island.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

If you count the seconds without stopping, it would take you eleven-and-a-half days to reach one million, and 32 years to reach one billion.

In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.

In 1870 there were more Irish living in London than in Dublin.

XD I told silverstar about the murder one and she said, "yeah cuz it's cold out and murdering doesn't warm you up"

lol its true

it told my dad about the email and his is like


WTF????????

lol well it's wierd....aw darn...its August *waits to be murdered*

yay augest

off road races

carnival

the fair

not hAVING TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL FOR ANOTHER MONTH

so other randomy stuff

or at least till the end of the month

barophobia fear of gravity

the king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!

monalisa has no eyebrows

everyday 20 banks are robbed

a violin contains about 70 different pieces of wood

forest fires move faster uphill then downhill!

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood.

It is impossible to lick your elbow. Well, for most people... but a few can.

Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.

On average, people can hold their breath for about one minute. The world record is 21 minutes 29 seconds, by David Merlini.

Saddles are hand made
in Detroit it's illegal to tie your pet alligator to a fire hydrant
horseshoe crabs are arachneds
the teddy bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt
paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th(that means I must have unparaskevidekatriaphobia lol)
in chicago it's illegal to go fishing in your pajamas
the worlds longest kiss was 30hr 59min 27sec
most kids are born in november
if you like spicy pickles then you are more likely to be pessemistic

Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.

Football (soccer) is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

More than 100 million people hold hunting licences.

Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutists, jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799.

In 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the top of Everest.

paraskevidekatriaphobia...gotta remember that....I just need to write it over and over thats how I memorized pneumonoultromicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

there's a fear of chopssticks but i dont remember what its called.....

you said those oradey


and im out i cant think of any more

no i only said hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.........lol the other one is a word I use for playing hangman...people rarely get pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

well yay look at the word

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

its like BIG and HUGE and like who whold know that besides you

45 letters
I taught it to my friend....at times it seems it's the only word she can spell.....no wonder she failed english she's gonna kill me when she reads that XD once...well wednesday cuz I'll force her to join cuz she'll be here anyways cuz I didnt want to go to 6 flags