Stupid Facts .....Not so stupid :-)

Stupid Facts

• There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice.
  
  
• When lightning strikes, it immediately heats the air around the bolt to 30,000 degrees. The surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees.
  
  
• The most-grown crop in the world, in terms of output by weight, is bananas.
  (see Fruits and Vegetables)
  
  
• The average weight of a bunch of bananas is about 25 pounds.
  
  
• The male seahorse carries the developing young and gives birth.
  (see Animal Groups and Young)
  
  
• The word "stat" used in hospitals is short for "statim", the Latin word for immediately.
  
  
• A cord of wood is a rectangular pile of wood measuring 4 ft. wide, 4 ft. high and 8 ft. long.
  
  
• The Dromedary camel has one hump, and the Bactrian camel has two.
  
  
• The age of a horse can be determined by examining its teeth.
  
  
• The rhinoceros is most closely related to the horse.
  
  
• Sea scallops are hermaphroditic.
  
  
• The part of the scallop eaten as food is the adductor muscle used to open and close their shell.
  
  
• The name Hippopotamus comes from Greek for "River Horse".
  
  
• The Great Lakes can be remembered using the acronym HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
• It is impossible (for most people) to lick your elbow.
  
  
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
  
  
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
  
  
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  
  
• On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
  
  
• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
  
  
• Rats and horses can't vomit.
  
  
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
  
  
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
  
  
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  
  
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  
  
• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
  
  
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  
  
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
  (see Taste and the Tongue)
  
  
• Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
  
  
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
  
• In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
  
  
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  
  
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
  
  
• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
  
  
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
  
  
• It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honeymonth" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
  
  
• "Minding your p's and q's" comes from early typesetting. The letters are in reverse making it very easy to confuse the two.
  
  
• Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.