Top 27 unbelievable true facts

Friday, May 21, 2010

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.


25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than

left-handed people do.

24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be

able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after
such a large amount. (Common Sense)

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of

Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.


21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone

just knows the first one.

20. During
World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to
manage their death/concentration camps.

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier

than the weight of the human population.

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil

war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who
thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people

die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of
people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,
than before you finished reading this.

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.


15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the

number of all the people that have died. Ever.

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and

eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.

13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to

be made as the Simpsons movie.

12. Men can breastfeed babies.


11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which

you've probably never heard of.

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to

human beings and animals than to other plants.

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written

first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America
method). That's why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki
have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family
names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki
Ichiro.

8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860


7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.


6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.

Long Beach, WA.

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom

underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo

la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the

tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found
edible.

1. The
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