50 More Facts and My Reactions to Them

I have found the following list at buburuza.net, a very funny website that I like browsing now and then - plenty of random, amusing, interesting pieces of info, beautiful pictures or comic videos.

While reading this particularly varied list I was having so many different reactions that I decided to write them down:

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.

I did check - my jeans had another zipper manufacturer, but my sweatshirt zipper had YKK on it :)

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Cool, never tried it, never will. I like champagne and would not ruin a glass of it by dropping a raisin in.

3. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.

Maybe it's got something to do with the frequency of the sound? I find it hard to believe that all those scientists couldn't figure it out yet.

4. 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Yeah, great news for all those kids eating so healthy...

5. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

Wow, that's a bit disconcerting...

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

This is a bit scary, actually...

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Knew that.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Yew!

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.

Tomato juice plus spices equals medicine? Maybe not so usual for that time.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

A, well, he was a genius, something like this does not surprise me.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Cool...

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

I wonder why? (in sarcastic tones)

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

Perfection takes time, and we need scissors :)

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

Hihi, now that's something to be proud of.

15. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!

Cute, and quite more descriptive, actually :)

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

Now that's something to remember. I wonder if anyone would dare to apply it.

17. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Yeah, common knowledge. It's not like the 'repellent' acts like a 'force shield'. This is not Star Trek.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Yew, yew and yew! Or you could try putting the lid on the toilet after using it, and then flush...

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

I think I've heard that one before.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Payback is a bitch...

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

That's soo sad... I wonder if he knows, or even cares...

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

So?

23. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Well, all the 'pro-life' activists should be reminded of that, since he was so 'pro-life' and all...

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Is that a disease-related ranking?

25. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

Eh...

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

Ya, 'cause I'm sure you'd never go for the eyeballs unless you knew this particular piece of info.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

That's not a wonder, that's math.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

So?

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Not this person!

30. The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

So?

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Probably because cats were treated almost like gods in the Ancient Egypt and gods never liked competition...

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Yeah, I'd rather buy new ones that hold my ponytail with a cold rubber band.

33. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

Again, so what?

34. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.

Interesting, never thought about that.

35. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Already tried it, several times. Unfortunately, this is true.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.

To all their own...

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

I wonder how fun that research lab was...

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

I'm sure that's just an estimation. I'd hate to think someone conducted a research on some poor guy about this.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

Knew that. And they can still be used as weapons.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

I'll stick to the type of oil recommended by my car manufacturer, if that's alright...

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

That's quite a lot, actually.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

Sorry, I just fell off my chair laughing... Well, duh!

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

How very disappointing. I should work on changing mine to something else, then.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.

And in Bulgaria. Learnt that the hard way.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world.

That's because it's faster to breed them.

47. It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

Why? That's so unfair and weird at the same time.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

Sooo boring...

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is “s ub c ont in ent al”.

Another useless piece of info...

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

That makes sense, since most people have at least 3 phones - land lines at home and in the office and a mobile one.

Wow... how big of a geek am I?