8/29/2011

Amazing & Pure Facts {Part--5}

Lemons Have More Sugar Than Oranges.

Length Of A Beard An Average Man Would Grow If He Never Shaved Is 27.5 Feet.

Lenny Kravitz’s Mother Played The Part Of Helen On The Jeffersons.

Leon Trotsky, The Seminal Russian Communist, Was Assassinated In Mexico With An Icepick.

Leonardo Da Vinci Could Write With One Hand And Draw With The Other At The Same Time.

Leonardo Da Vinci Invented The Concept Of The Parachute, But His Design Was Fatally Flawed In That It Did Not Allow Air To Pass Through The Top Of The Chute. Therefore, The Chute Would Not Fall Straight, But Would Tilt To The Side, Lose It’s Air, And Plummet.

Leonardo Da Vinci Invented The Scissors.

Leonardo Da Vinci Spent Twelve Years Painting The Mona Lisa’s Lips.

Less Than 7% Of The Population Donates Blood.

Less Than Two Percent Of The Water On Earth Is Fresh.

Li Hung-Chang Is The Father Of Chop Suey.

Li Is The Family Name For Over 87 Million People In China.

Liberace Museum Has A Mirror-Plated Rolls Royce; Jewel-Encrusted Capes, And The Largest Rhinestone In The World, Weighing 59 Pounds And Almost A Foot In Diameter.

Libra, The Scales, Is The Only Inanimate Symbol In The Zodiac.

Life On Earth Probably Developed In An Oxygen-Free Atmosphere. Even Today There Are Microorganisms That Can Live Only In The Absence Of Oxygen.

Lightning Strikes The Earth 100 Times Every Second.

Like Fingerprints, Everyone’s Tongue Print Is Different.

Linn’s Stamp News Is The World’s Largest Weekly Newspaper For Stamp Collectors.

Long Ago, The People Of Nicaragua Believed That If They Threw Beautiful Young Women Into A Volcano It Would Stop Erupting.

Lorne Green Had One Of His Nipples Bitten Off By An Alligator While Host Of Lorne Green’s Wild Kingdom.

Los Angeles And San Francisco Become 2.5 Inches Closer Together Each Year Because They Are On Opposite Sides Of The San Andreas Fault.

Los Angeles’s Full Name Is El Pueblo De Nuestra Senora La Reina De Los Angeles De Porciuncula –And Can Be Abbreviated To 63% Of Its Size: L.A.

Lost Time In Traffic Could Cost American Businesses Up To 100 Billion Dollars Per Year.

Louis Iv Of France Had A Stomach The Size Of Two Regular Stomachs.

Louis Xiv Bathed Once A Year.

Louis Xiv Had Forty Personal Wigmakers And Almost 1000 Wigs

Louisa May Alcott, Author Of The Classic Little Women, Hated Kids. She Only Wrote The Book Because Her Publisher Asked Her To.

Lucifer Is Latin For Light Bringer. It Is A Translation Of The Hebrew Name For Satan, Halael. Satan Means Adversary, Devil Means Liar

Lucy Ricardo’s Maiden Name Was Mcgillicudy.

Luke Skywalker’s Last Name Was Changed At The Last Minute From Starkiller In Order To Make It Less Violent.

Lyndon B. Johnson Was The First President Of The United States To Wear Contact Lenses.

M&M’s Stands For The Last Names Of Forrest Mars, Sr. Then Candymaker And His Associate Bruce Murrie.

M&M’s Were Developed So Soldiers Could Eat The Candy Without Getting Their Fingers Sticky.

Mae West Was Once Dubbed ‘The Statue Of Libido’.

Mafia Is An Acronym For Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela, Or Death To The French Is Italy’s Cry

Maggots Were Once Used To Treat A Bone Infection Called Osteomyelitis.

Maine Is The Only State Whose Name Is Just One Syllable.

Maine Is The Toothpick Capital Of The World.

Malaysians Protect Their Babies From Disease By Bathing The In Beer.

Male Monkeys Lose The Hair On Their Heads In The Same Way Men Do.

Many Hamsters Only Blink One Eye At A Time.

Many Japanese Golfers Carry Hole-In-One Insurance, Because It Is Traditional In Japan To Share One’s Good Luck By Sending Gifts To All Your Friends When You Get An Ace. The Price For What The Japanese Term An Albatross Can Often Reach $10,000.

March 2 Is Dr. Seuss’ Birthday.

Marco Polo Was Born On The Croatian Island Of Korcula (Pronounced Kor-Chu-La).

Marie Curie, The Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Who Discovered Radium, Died On 4Th July 1934 Of Radiation Poisoning.

Marijuana Is Spanish For ‘Mary Jane.’

Mario, Of Super Mario Bros. Fame, Appeared In The 1981 Arcade Game, Donkey Kong. His Original Name Was Jumpman, But Was Changed To Mario To Honor The Nintendo Of America’s Landlord, Mario Segali.

Mary Shelly Wrote Frankenstein At The Age Of 19.

Matt Groening, Creator Of The Simpsons, Incorporated His Initials Into The Drawing Of Homer. M Is His Hair And G Is His Ear. Check It Out!

Medieval Jewish Mystics Practiced Rolling In The Snow To Purge Themselves From Evil Urges. They Were The First Snow Angels.

Mel Blanc (The Voice Of Bugs’ Bunny) Was Allergic To Carrots.

Melting An Icecube In Your Mouth Burns 3 Calories.

Men Get Hiccups More Often Than Women.

Men Stand With Their Backs To The Fire: An Old Explanation Is That When The Dog’s Nose Was Too Small To Stop A Leak In The Aark, Noah Sat On The Hole To Keep The Water Out. Ever Since Then Men Have Felt The Need To Warm Their Backs And Dog’s Have Had Cold Noses.

Meteorologists Claim They’re Right 85% Of The Time.

Mexican Jumping Beans Jump Because Of A Moth Larva Inside The Bean.

Michael Jackson Is Black.

Michael Jordan Makes More Money From Nike Annually Than All Of The Nike Factory Workers In Malaysia Combined.

Michael Jordan Shaves His Head On Tuesdays And Fridays.

Michael Tolotos, Who Died At The Age Of 80, Never Saw A Woman.

Michelangelo Died At The Age Of 88.

Miss Piggy’s Measurements Are 27-20-36.

Miss Scarlet Is The Only Female Single Character In Clue.

Moby Dick Was White.

Moisture, Not Air Causes Super Glue To Dry.

Money Is Made Of Woven Linen, Not Paper.

Mongolia Is The Largest Landlocked Country.

Mongooses Were Brought To Hawai’i To Kill Rats. This Plan Failed Because Rats Are Nocturnal While The Mongoose Hunts During The Day.

Montgomery Is The Birthplace Of Music Great Nat King Cole, Pop Singers Clarence Carter And Toni Tenille,

Metropolitan Opera Singer Nell Rankin, And Blues Legend Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton.

Months That Begin With Sunday Will Always Have A Friday The 13Th.

Montpelier, Vermont Is The Only U.S. State Capital Without A Mcdonalds.

Moon Was Buzz Aldrin’s Mother’s Maiden Name (Buzz Aldrin Was The Second Man On The Moon In 1969.

More Bullets Were Fired In Starship Troopers Than In Any Other Movie Made.

More People Speak English In China Than The United States.

More People Use Blue Toothbrushes Than Red Ones.

More Than 10 Percent Of All The Salt Produced Annually In The World Is Used To De-Ice American Roads.

More Than 75% Of All The Countries In The World Are North Of The Equator.

More Then 25% Of The World’s Forest Are In Siberia.

Mosquitoes Are Attracted To The Color Blue Twice As Much As To Any Other Color.

Mosquitoes Have Killed More People Than Have All The World’s Wars Combined.

Mosquitos Have Teeth.

Most American Car Horns Honk In The Key Of F.

Most Dust Particles In Your House Are Made From Dead Skin.

Most Gemstones Contain Several Elements, Except The Diamond; Its All Carbon.

Most Published Species Of Dinosaurs Have Been Published Within The Last 20 Years.

Most Raindrops Are Round Or Doughnut-Shaped Not Raindrop Shaped.

Most Spiders Belong To The Orb Weaver Spider Family, Family Aranidae. This Is Pronounced A Rainy Day.

Mothers Were Originally Named Mama Or Mommy (In Many Languages) Because They Have Mammary Glands.

Moths Have No Stomach.

Mountains Are Formed By A Process Called Orogeny.

Mozart Wrote The Nursery Rhyme Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star At The Age Of Five.

Mozart’s Real Name Was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart .

Mr. Peanut Was Invented In 1916 By A Suffolk, Virginia Schoolchild Who Won $5 In A Design Contest Sponsored By Planters Peanuts.

Mr. Potatohead Was The First Toy Ever Advertised On Television.

Mr. Rogers Is An Ordained Minister.

Mr. Snuffleupagas’ First Name Was Alyoisus.

Mr. Spock’s (Of Star Trek) Blood Type Was T-Negative.

Mrs. Clause’s First Name Is Jessica In The Movie Santa Clause Is Coming To Town.

Muffins Spelled Backwards Is Sniffum.

Napolean Conducted His Battle Plans In A Sandbox.

Napolean Favored Mathematicians And Physical Scientists But Excluded Humanists From His Circle, Believing Them To Be Troublemakers.

Native Speakers Of Japanese Learn Spanish More Easily Than English. Native Speakers Of English Learn Spanish More Easily Than Japanese.

Naugahyde, Plastic Leather Was Created In Naugatuck, Connecticut.

Nearly All Sumo Wrestlers Have Flat Feet And Big Butts.

Neck Ties Were First Worn In Croatia. That’s Why They Were Called Cravats (Cro-Vats).

Nerf, The Popular Foam Children’s Toy Company, Doesn’t Actually Stand For Anything.

Nerve Impulses To And From The Brain Travel As Fast As 170 Miles Per Hour.

Nestl S The Largest Company In Switzerland, Yet More Than 98 Percent Of Its Revenue Comes From Outside The Country.

New York City Is Nicknamed The Big Apple After An Early Swing Dance That Originated In South Carolina Called The Big Apple.

New York Was The First State To Require The Licensing Of Motor Vehicles.

New York’s Central Park Is Nearly Twice The Size Of The Entire Country Of Monaco.

New York’s Central Park Opened In 1876.

New Zealand Is The Only Country That Contains Every Type Of Climate In The World.

New Zealand Was Named After Abel Tasman’s Home District, Zealand, In The Netherlands.

New Zealand Was The First Country To Give Woman The Vote, In 1890.

Next To Man, The Porpoise Is The Most Intelligent Creature On Earth.

Nick Mason Is The Only Member Of Pink Floyd To Appear On All Of The Band’s Albums.

Nicotine Was Introduced By Jean Nicot (French Ambassador To Portugal) In France In 1560.

Nine Pennies Weigh Exactly One Ounce.

Nine Words Will Be Misspelled On Each Magazine Page.

Nip, A Nip Of Whiskey. Short For Nipperkin. A Small Wine And Beer Measure Containing About A Half A Pint, Or Little Under.

No Automobile Made After 1924 Should Be Designated As Antique.

No One Knows Where Mozart Is Buried.

No One Seems To Know Why People Blush.

No Pearls Of Value Are Ever Found In North American Oysters.

No President Was An Only Child.

No Two Cornflakes Look The Same.

No Word In The English Language Rhymes With Month, Orange, Silver Or Purple.

Nobody Knows Where The Body Of Voltaire Is. It Was Stolen In The Nineteenth Century And Has Never Been Recovered. The Theft Was Discovered In 1864, When The Tomb Was Opened And Found Empty.

Nobody Won The Nobel Peace Prize In 1972

Nobody Yet Has Explained Satisfactorily Why Couples Who Marry In January, February, And March Tend To Have The Highest Divorce Rates.

Non-Dairy Creamer Is Flammable.

Norman Stingley Invented The Super Ball.

North Americans Spend Almost $18 Billion On Footwear A Year.

Nose Prints Are Used To Identify Dogs, Much Like Humans Use Fingerprints.

Nova Scotia Is Latin For New Scotland.

November 19 Is Have A Bad Day Day.

November 29 Is National Sinky Day; A Day To Eat Over One’s Sink And Worship It.

Nowadays, 50% Of All People Who Get Married Get Divorced.

Number Of Whiskers On The Face Of An Average Man Is 30,000.

Nutmeg Is Extremely Poisonous If Injected Intravenously.

Nycrophobia Is The Fear Of Darkness.

Oak Trees Do Not Have Acorns Until They Are Fifty Years Old Or Older.

October 10 Is National Metric Day.

Odds Of Being Killed By A Dog Are 1 In 700,000.

Odds Of Being Killed By A Tornado Are 1 In 2 Million.

Odds Of Being Killed By Falling Out Of Bed Are 1 In 2 Million.

Odds Of Being Killed In A Car Crash Are 1 In 5000.

Odds Of Dying In The Bathtub Are 1 In 1,000,000.

Odontophobia Is The Fear Of Teeth.

Of All The Words In The English Language, The Word Set Has The Most Definitions.

Of The 266 Men Who Have Been Pope, 33 Have Died Violently.

Of The Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, All Named After Artists And/Or Sculptors, Donatello Does Not Occur In The Same Time Period As Leonardo, Michelangelo And Raphael.

Of The Six Men Who Made Up The Three Stooges, Three Of Them Were Real Brothers (Moe, Curly And Shemp.)

Oliver Cromwell Was Hanged And Decapitated Two Years After His Death.

On A Trip To The South Sea Islands, French Painter Paul Gauguin Stopped Off Briefly In Central America, Where He Wroked As A Laborer On The Panama Canal.

On An American One-Dollar Bill, There Is An Owl In The Upper Left-Handed Corner Of The 1 Encased In The Shield And A Spider Hidden In The Front Upper Right-Hand Corner

On Average People Fear Spiders More Than They Do Death.

On Average There Are 178 Sesame Seeds On Each Mcdonald’s Bigmac Bun.

On Average, 100 People Choke On Ballpoint Pens Every Year.

On Average, Children Between The Ages Of Two And Seven Color 28 Minutes Every Day.

On Average, Half Of All False Teeth Have Some Form Of Radioactivity.

On Average, Most People Button Their Shirt Upwards.

On Dry, Windy Days, Pollen Can Travel Up To 500 Miles.

On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung Of Singapore Turned A Single Piece Of Dough Into 8,192 Noodles In 59.29 Seconds!

On June 13th 1944, A Single Tiger Tank Headed By Cpt. Michael Wittman Stopped The Advance Of The Entire British 7th Armored Division (The Famous ‘Desert Rats’) In The Town Of Villers Bocage, Normandy. This Has Been The Deadliest Single Action In The Entire War And Stopped The British Offensive, Planned By Montgomery, To Break Through German Lines. Wittman Died Later In August Fighting Against 12 Canadian Sherman Tanks.

On The Cartoon Show ‘The Jetsons’, Jane Is 33 Years Old And Her Daughter Judy Is 15

On The New Hundred Dollar Bill The Time On The Clock Tower Of Independence Hall Is 4:10.

On The Roseanne Show, D.J. Stood For David Jacob.

On The Stone Temples Of Madura In Southern India, There Are More Than 30 Million Carved Images Of Gods And Goddesses.

One Billion Seconds Is About 37 Years.

One Human Brain Generates More Electrical Impulses In A Single Day Than All Of The World’s Telephones Put Together.

One Human Hair Can Support 3 Kgs.

One Legend Claims Stealing Someone’s Shadow (By Measuring It Against A Wall And Driving A Nail Through Its Head) Can Turn The Victim Into A Vampire.

One Of Queen Victoria’s Children Gave Her Bustle For Christmas That Played God Save The Queen When She Sat Down.

One Of The Ingredients In Ice Cream Is Seaweed.

One Of The Preposterous Cures For The Black Plague In The 14Th Century Was To Place A Pig Next To The Dying Person.

One Of The World’s Tallest, Fastest Roller Coasters: Buffalo Bill’s ‘Desperado’.

One Quarter Of Your Bones In Your Body Are In Your Feet.

One Ragweed Plant Can Release As Many As One Billion Grains Of Pollen.

One Sign Of Rain That Farmers Once Searched For Was For Their Pigs To Pick Up Sticks And Walk Around With Them In Their Mouths.

One Sixth Of All Americans, An Estimated 43 Million People, Move Each Year.

One Species Of Antelope, The Sitatunga, Can Sleep Underwater.

One Third Of 95 Developing Countries Have A Waiting Period Of Six Years Or More For A Telephone Connection, Compared With Less Than A Month In Developed Countries.

One Third Of All Cancers Are Sun Related.

One Third Of Black Men In The Us Between 20 And 29 Years Old Were In Prison, On Parole Or On Probation.

One Who Busies Themself With The Quadrature Of A Cirlce Is Called A Tetragondzein.

One Year Contains 31,557,600 Seconds.

One-Fourth Of The World’s Population Lives On Less Than $200 A Year. Ninety Million People Survive On Less Than $75 A Year.

Onions Help Circulation.

Only 1/3 Of The People That Can Twitch Their Ears Can Twitch Only One At A Time.

Only 5% Of Salt Produced End Up On The Dinner Table. The Rest Is Used For Packing Meat, Building Roads, Feeding Livestock, Tanning Leather, And Manufacturing Glass, Soap, Ash And Washing Compounds.

Only 55% Of Americans Know That The Sun Is A Star.

Only 7% Of The Population Are Lefties.

Only Female Mosquitoes Bite!

Only Five Countries In Europe Touch Only One Other: Portugal, Denmark, San Marino, Vatican City, And Monaco.

Only Food That Does Not Spoil: Honey

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