Aug 15, 2008

Did you know? Part II

Did you know?....

- In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles

- Butterflies taste with their feet

- 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose

- The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5000 to 6000 words

- The average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the flies on an average dog

- Of all the senses, smell is the most closely linked to memory

- Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 0.1 of a calorie

- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes

- Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors

- If you stand at the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime

- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave

- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

- Most lipsticks contain fish scales

- It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown

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