miscellaneous facts

some of these are interesting

The center of a super massive black hole is the size of a spec of dust. But, that spec of dust weighs 3 million times more than our sun. There is also an expired super nova that weighs one billion pounds per teaspoon.

We know more about the surface of the moon then we do about the bottom of then ocean.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

You have enough microorganisms in your mouth to equal a cockroach.

Grenoble, France- A man has been eating 2 pounds of metal and glass a day. Some of the things include: A Cassna airplane, a computer, a TV, a bike, and a coffin.

Austrailia- A man was diagnosed with lead poisoning after he ate three feet of electrical cable a day. He said, “It had a sweet and pleasant taste, especially near the center.”

A sneeze leaves your mouth a 100 miles per hour.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. And the first one was built partly by a prison inmate. He later died in it for murder.

Tennessee used to be called Franklin.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

If ribbon worms can’t find any food, they will eat themselves.

The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

“Pants” used to be considered a bad word in England.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

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

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Reindeer enjoy eating bananas.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.

Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.

A blue whales tounge weighs more than an elephant.

The hokey pokey is really what its all about.

Di Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona lisa’s lips.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

You can’t sneeze with your eyes open.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Ted Turner owns 5 percent of New Mexico.

Most Americans’ car horns beep in the Key of “F”.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

Toto was paid $125 a week during the filming of the Wizard of Oz.

The Sears Tower in Chicago has its own zip code.

Updated: September 18, 2002 — 6:52 am