30 Random Facts About Nothing

September 8, 2007 at 8:38 am | In Homelearning | 4 Comments

  1. You consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp.
  2. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery provides you with.
  3. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
  4. No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver.
  5. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
  6. The longest one-syllable word is “screeched.”
  7. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
  8. The word ‘rhythm’ has no vowels.
  9. All polar bears are left-handed.
  10. Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
  11. An ant can lift 50 times its own weight & can pull 30 times its own weight.
  12. Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
  13. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  14. It’s impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
  15. The human brain is about 85% water.
  16. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
  17. Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
  18. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
  19. You blink about 25,000 times a day.
  20. When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
  21. Flies are deaf.
  22. Slugs have 4 noses.
  23. Starfish have no brains.
  24. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  25. There are no clocks in any Las Vegas casinos.
  26. There are 336 dimples on a golf ball.
  27. Giraffes & rats can go without water longer than a camel can.
  28. Saturn is the only planet that could float on water.
  29. The 21st century started in 2001, not 2000.
  30. On AOL, women outnumber men.

This was an example of List Blogging, one of the twenty-five ways to blog.

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