I didn't know that!!!, interesting facts Options

[kris_fox17]

hey everyone, you know any interesting facts. feel free to post some of the ones you know!!!

here are a couple:

- butter is one atom away from being plastic, which is why when left out in the open it doesn't
attract any flies!!!

- apples not caffine, is more efficient in waking you up in the morning!!!

- an average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000!!!

[miss barnes]

many times bank tellers miscalculate this and most people add this wrong also. you can add it however you want. you can group the numbers or whatever. what is the sum?

1000
....30
1020
1000
1030
+..20

i found this in one of those opitcal illusions books

its 4,073 because thats not 30, its 3 dollars. notice the placement of the 3...i think!

EDIT~*~ heres more facts

~by raising your legs slowly, and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand

~the longest word that can be spelled w/o repeating any letters is "uncopyrightable"

~a rat can last longer w/o water than a camel

~315 entries in websters dictionary were misspelled

~clinophobia is the fear of beds

~most lipstick contains fish scales

~a hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot child in it

~a cockroach can live several weeks w/ its head cut off. it dies of starvation

~over 10,000 birds die a day from flying into windows

~the original name for the "butterfly" was "flutterby"

~kermit the frog is left-handed

~walt disney's autograph bears no resemblence to the famous logo

~mel blanc, the voice of bugs bunny, was allergic to carrots

~months that start on a sunday have a friday the 13th

~the dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "f"