Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ODD FAMILY FACTS AND OTHER NONSENSE..???????

Wife's grand mother had 9 children. 4 sets of twins. Her father was the only one not a twin.
Two male first cousins lost the same 3 fingers on their right hand from wounds in Vietnam.
One of my nieces and her husband were born the same day at the same hospital. 20 years later they married, she jokes it was LOVE at first sight.
SOME ODD FACTS.....
During you life time you will eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
The elephant is the only animal that can't jump.
How fast is a sneeze? A sneeze travels out the mouth at 100 MPH. Slower if we put our hand over the mouth.
Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.
80% of women wash their hands after visiting the restroom.
Women blink twice as much as men.
But men are 6 times more likely to be hit by lighting.
Women might not like this?? Lipstick is partailly made from Fish scales.
Ants never sleep.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Yipes!!!!
Whitby, Ontario has more doughnut shops per capital than any place in the world. Probably more Cops too.

5 comments:

  1. I love useless bits of trivia like this.

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  2. *grin* I also like collecting 'odd' information like this.

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  3. Interestiing however I would like to see 100percent for both sexes on the hand washing lol,,,,,

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  4. Thanks for the interesting facts. Yes, I agree there should be lots more handwashing, it's the first thing we do when we get home, before we touch any food etc.

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