The grass is always green on my side.

Did you know …… [11]

  • that in one day, the human brain generates more electrical impluses than all the telephones in the world put together?
  • that another word for hiccuping is ’singultus’?
  • that Oscar Wilde and his friends came up with the word ‘dude’? It came from the words ‘duds’ and attitude’.
  • that of all the words Drs. Seuss made up in his storybook, only one has stuck in the English vocabulary? It’s ‘Grinch’.
  • that an average woman has 17 square feet of skin? When a woman is in her ninth month of pregnancy, she has 18.3 square feet of skin.
  • that rats can go on longer without water than camels?
  • that in France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways?
  • that a person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper each day?
  • that an office desk has 400 times more bacteria than the toilet?
  • that the blue whale weights 50 tonnes at birth, and as much as 150 tonnes when fully grown?
  • that ancient Greek or Roman men has an average lifespan of 36 years?
  • that a fear of dying laughing is called cherophobia?
  • that a baby grey whale consumes enough milk to fill more than 2000 bottles a day?

Well, now you know. :mrgreen:

4 Comments so far »

  1. by wuching, on May 21 2008 @ 6:25 pm

     

    that first one? thats why us humans make great batteries in the matrix!

    wuching’s last blog post..Is Dorothy there?

  2. by Emmanuel, on May 22 2008 @ 10:19 pm

     

    Patutla so hard to kill tikus..

    Emmanuel’s last blog post..A Tale of Two Teachers

  3. by Dabido, on May 24 2008 @ 12:47 am

     

    The human brain is still faster than the best super computer by about 1 billion tera flops or something.

    I have about 20 square meters of skin … must get back to exercising. :-)

    I still don’t want to use the office desk to go to the toilet though. Of course, how many of the bacteria are harmful? Only takes on killer bacteria to take us out, but billions of harmless ones can come and go …

    Imagine how much pee a baby grey whale generates!!!! :-)
    Dabido’s last blog post..List for the Academy

  4. by Sweetest Sin, on May 24 2008 @ 4:38 pm

     

    dabs : ooo…u certainly have a point there!! :P

    emmanuel : hahaha, baru tau u? :D

    wuching : hhmmm….ok [??] :shock:

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