Some littleknown encyclopedic facts

Some little-known encyclopedic facts

  Key Takeaways: 1. Chocolate is deadly to dogs; just a few ounces can kill a small dog due to damage to its heart and nervous system. 2. Your keyboard actually harbors more bacteria than your toilet. 3. Eating organ meats before drinking alcohol can alleviate the effects of intoxication. 5. The thumbnail grows the slowest, while the middle fingernail grows the fastest. 6. If an oil-based pen dries out, apply nail polish, cover the pen...
1. Chocolate is deadly to dogs; just a few ounces can kill a small dog due to damage to its heart and nervous system.
  
  2. Your keyboard actually harbors more bacteria than your toilet.
  
  3. Eating animal organs before drinking alcohol can alleviate the effects of intoxication
  
  . 5. The thumbnail grows the slowest, while the middle fingernail grows the fastest.
  
  6. If an oil-based pen dries out, apply nail polish, cap it, and it will be usable again in a while.
  
  7. If you accidentally get foundation on your clothes, simply wipe it off with toner.
  
  8. Wearing earplugs for an hour will increase the number of bacteria in your ears by 700 times.
  
  9. Casinos in Las Vegas don't have clocks.
  
  10. 40% of McDonald's profits come from Happy Meals sales.
  
  11. The 1996 edition of Webster's Dictionary contained 315 spelling errors.
  
  12. On average, 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents every day.
  
  13. In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as medicine.
  
  14. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and paint with the other.
  
  15. A normal person's eye muscles move an average of 10,000 to 15,000 times a day.
  
  16. It took Leonardo da Vinci 10 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.
  
  17. The Oscars awarded during World War II were made of wood because metal was a scarce resource at the time.
  
  18. Look at your zipper; if it has the letters YKK on it, it's a product of Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
  
  19. Bruce Lee's movements were so fast that they were invisible, so the film had to be shot at a slower speed.
  
  20. Quicksand is generally not deep, unlike in the movies, so don't worry unless your face is buried in it.
  
  21. Mosquito repellent doesn't repel mosquitoes; it interferes with their sensory organs, making it difficult for them to locate people.
  
  22. Dentists recommend that toothbrushes be placed at least 6 feet away from the bathroom to avoid the various particles generated and floating in the air when flushing the toilet.
  
  23. The first product to be barcoded was Wrigley's chewing gum.
  
  24. Michael Jordan earns more from Nike each year than all the workers in Nike's factories in Malaysia combined.
  
  25. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
  
  26. Hitler's mother considered abortion but was dissuaded by doctors.
  
  27. A person sheds 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime.
  
  28. If you are bitten by an alligator, poke its eyeball hard, and it will let you go.
  
  29. The average person falls asleep in just 7 minutes.
  
  30. Yo-yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
  
  31. Cats are the only domesticated animal not mentioned in the Bible.
  
  32. Rubber bands are better preserved when refrigerated.
  
  33. 56% of keyboard input is done with the left hand.
  
  34. "dreamt" is the only English word ending in "mt".
  
  35. Cockroaches can survive for 10 days without a head.
  
  36. You can't sneeze with your eyes open.
  
  37. Mexico City sinks 10 inches every year.
  
  38. The brain is more active when sleeping than when watching TV.
  
  39. 80% of Americans prefer blue.
  
  40. There are more chickens than people on this planet.
  
  42. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
  
  43. The combined assets of the 48 poorest countries are less than those of the world's three richest families.
  
  44. The first CEO of Marlboro cigarettes died of lung cancer.
  
  45. Smart people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  
  46. The world's youngest parents were a Chinese couple in 1910, aged 8 and 9 respectively.
  
  47. Our eyes are the same size as when we were born, but our noses and ears keep growing.
  
  48. You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
  
  49. A person will die after about 10 days without sleep.
  
  50. Chewing gum while cutting onions will prevent you from crying.
  
  51. Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
  
  52. If the moon is directly overhead, you will lose a little weight.
  
  53. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his mother or wife because they were both deaf.
  
  54. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in English.
  
  55. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
  
  56. "Bookkeeper" is the only English word that repeats three consecutive letters. 57.
  
  Right-handed people live an average of nine years longer than left-handed people.
  
  58. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every single letter of the English alphabet.
  
  59. If all Chinese people lined up and walked past you, the line would never end due to the high birth rate.
  
  60. More people speak English in China than in the United States.
  
  61. Every square inch of human skin contains 20 feet of blood vessels.
  
  62. The average person uses the restroom six times a day.
  
  63. Babies are born with 300 bones, but adults have only 206.
  
  64. Beards are the fastest-growing type of human hair. 65. If a man never grooms himself, he will grow a 30-foot-long beard in his lifetime.
  
  66. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came first.
  
  67. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
  
  Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which is a hill in New Zealand.
  
  68. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00 AM, you will arrive in Honolulu at 4:30 PM yesterday.
  
  69. Scientists at the Parquet Observatory in Australia once thought they had received radio waves from extraterrestrial civilizations, but after investigation, they discovered that the waves actually came from a microwave oven in the observatory.
  
  60. A French kiss can exchange more than 40,000 parasites and 250 kinds of bacteria.
  
  70. Men have better eyesight than women, while women have better hearing than men.
  
  71. Coca-Cola was originally green.
  
  72. The most common name in the world is: Muhammad.
  
  73. Excluding "north" and "south," the seven states in English share the same first and last letter.
  
  74. The average American has two credit cards.
  
  75. "Typewriter" is the longest English word that can be typed using a single row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard. 76.
  
  Women are twice as likely as men to be blind.
  
  77. You cannot die from holding your breath.
  
  78. When you sneeze, your heart stops beating for about one millisecond.
  
  79. Pigs cannot see the sky.
  
  80. "Sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is the most difficult tongue twister in English.
  
  81. A violent sneeze can fracture ribs, while trying to suppress a sneeze can rupture blood vessels in the neck or brain, leading to death.
  
  82. In a deck of cards, each suit's King represents a great historical monarch: Spades is King David, Clubs is Alexander the Great, Hearts is Charlemagne, and Diamonds is Julius Caesar.
  
  83. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
  
  84. When you see a statue of a knight, if the horse is off-leash, the knight died in battle.
  
  85. Similarly, if the horse has one front leg raised, the knight died from severe injuries sustained in battle.
  
  86. Similarly, if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the knight died of natural causes.
  
  87. Honey does not spoil.
  
  88. Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
  
  89. Snails can sleep for up to three years.
  
  90. All polar bears are left-handed.
  
  91. In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by removing one olive from every salad served to first class passengers.
  
  92. Butterflies have their taste buds on their feet.
  
  93. Elephants cannot jump.
  
  94. No new animals have been domesticated in the past 4,000 years.
  
  95. Generally, people fear spiders more than death.
  
  96. The words "assassination" and "bump" were coined by Shakespeare.
  
  97. The background music for the stretching, chest-expanding, and cool-down exercises in "Colorful Sunshine" is "Sunshine Sports Song."
  
  98. Don't put a light bulb in your mouth; you won't be able to get it out.
  
  99. A baby's first poop is green.
  
  100. Cell phones can send text messages to themselves.
  
  101. A street sign in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, has been hanging upside down and hasn't been righted yet.
  
  102. No one can understand Leonardo da Vinci's writing.
  
  103. When your pet python stops eating and coils up to sleep, but instead lies straight down next to you, get rid of it! It's measuring whether it can swallow you whole.
  
  104. Chopin cried when he heard the sound of a piano as a child.
  
  105. American math enthusiast Clifford Adams spent 52 years finding the hexagonal magic square.
  
  106. Huarong Road is a game renamed from the foreign game "Red Mane Wild Horse".
  
  107. It is said that cat urine glows in the dark.
  
  108. The strongest and most powerful muscle in the human body is actually the tongue.
  
  109. 30% of advertisements seeking lovers are posted by married individuals.
  
  110. Pigs can maintain an orgasm for more than 30 minutes. --Even pigs can, then...
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