Do you know these facts?

@crackhead (1826)
India
April 9, 2007 5:03pm CST
Here i am sharing few of the facts that my friend mailed me a couple of minutes ago. If i am reposting them at any case please do not mind. I just thought of sharing these many facts with you people as soon as i got the mail and now i am here with all of them. Have you known any of the facts earlier? did you share them with your friends regularly? Do your friends share such good mails with you? Please do share any of such good facts if you have in your mails. 1) Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'. 2) Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 3) The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 4) The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 5) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet. 6) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times. 7) Ants don't sleep . 8) Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. 9) A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat. 10) The mouse is the most common mammal in the US. 11) A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. 12) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. 13) The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs." 14) There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. 15) A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel. 16) The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. 17) The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939. 18) Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound. 19) A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor. 20) Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned. 21) Snakes are immune to their own poison. 22) An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. 23) Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. 24) The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms). 25) Most lipstick contains fish scales. 26) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. 27) Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats. 28) A shrimp's heart is in their head. 29) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 30) A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. 31) The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe. 32) A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. 33) It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell. 34) Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph. 35) Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human. 36) There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. 37) Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year. 38) Cat's urine glows under a black light . 39) The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length. 40) It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer. 41) Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils. 42) It would require an average of 18 humming birds to weigh in at 1 ounce. 43) Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle. 44) Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day. 45) Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away. 46) A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872. 47) The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour. 48) There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster. 49) The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds. 50) The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people. 51) The humming bird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk. 52) The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers. 53) A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body. 54) Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years. 55) The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue. 56) Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away. 57) The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth. 58) The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska. 59) Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool. 60) The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers. 61) To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed. 62) 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration. 63) Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size. 64) The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines. 65) A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine. 66) Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes. 67) The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986. 68) Ants can live up to 16 years. 69) In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries. 70) The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's. 71) Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks. 72) Coca-Cola was originally green. 73) The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 74) The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 75) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 76) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard. 77) Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! 78) You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. 79) It is impossible to lick your elbow. 80) People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. 81) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 82) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. 83) If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. 84) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history, Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 85) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321 86) If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 87) What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women. 88) Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - HoneY. 89) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 90) A snail can sleep for three years. 91) All polar bears are left handed. 92) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. 93) Butterflies taste with their feet. 94) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 95) In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 96) On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. 97) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 98) Most lipstick contains fish scales. 99) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. 100) Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length. 101) A baby bat is called a pup. 102) German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog. 103) A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time. 104) It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
15 Apr 07
wow these are very interesting facts. lots of them i didnt know. i wonder from where people get these emails. i never saw a similar one. might have to check some things in the online encyclopedia, because you did wake up my interest for some of the posted facts ;-) thank you for sharing this email with us. we never learn enough
@crackhead (1826)
• India
15 Apr 07
Yeah yeah even i wondered when i got this mail. Anyways it was my pleasure to share this mail with you friends. Thanks for responding.
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@mssnow (9484)
• United States
14 Apr 07
Interesting facts. I like the ant being intoxicated one. Wonder who tested that one. The one 111,111,111 times 111,111,111, I had to try to see if it was right and it certainly was. Great facts thanks :)
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@crackhead (1826)
• India
14 Apr 07
I checked it myself before posting here and thanks for your response.
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@dana234 (2114)
• Spain
14 Apr 07
Well, thank you for all these surprising facts. 91) All polar bears are left handed like me, nice one. Didn´t know. Mind you, I haven´t met many polar bears, lol. I knew about how many poor minks it takes to make a coat. Concerning the rest of the facts I must confess my ignorance. If I receive similar info, I promise to post it. Thanks for sharing. Dana
@crackhead (1826)
• India
14 Apr 07
wish , sure you will meet some polar bears. Thanks for responding and thanks in advance if you can post any such facts.
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@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
10 Apr 07
Wow these are so interesting facts. Some of them I have heard or read before, but some are new for me. Thanks for sharing these interesting and informative facts with us.
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@crackhead (1826)
• India
10 Apr 07
You are most welcome and thanks for responding sweetlady :)
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@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
12 Apr 07
Oh my, this is interesting. I didn't know that electric chair was invented by a dentist. I studied Dentistry and nobody ever told me about this. I better check this around. Thanks for sharing this info. :)
@crackhead (1826)
• India
12 Apr 07
You are most welcome and thanks for responding bunny. :)
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@subathra (3519)
• India
10 Apr 07
I like to read these kind of facts.i have read some of these and some for the first time.Thanks for sharing these with us.Great job.. Actually we get to know many things and its facts eventhough we use it daily.
@crackhead (1826)
• India
10 Apr 07
It's My pleasure to share such good things. Thanks for responding. :)
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@lucy02 (5016)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Very interesting facts! Who got the ant drunk and who thought to shine a black light on the cat's urine? lol
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• United States
10 Apr 07
I have never come across these facts before. Very interesting also. The one fact about the spiders. I don't know about anyone else but I can't stand them. So I am in the group of people that fear spiders. I loved all the facts and thank you for sharing. I like to learn new things and this email of facts certainly classifies as somethings new I have learned.
• United States
18 Apr 07
Yes, I consider the people here as friends. When I come across a funny joke or a forward from one of my friends I immediately think of the members here and if I think they will like it I will post it here. That was nice that you marked me as best response. I appreciate it.
@crackhead (1826)
• India
10 Apr 07
Yeah i know its nice to share such kind of mails between friends. My friends do mail me a lot of interesting stuff regularly. It's my pleasure to share these kind of mails with friends like you.. Thank you for responding.
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@Augustta (1850)
• Poland
18 Apr 07
wow!! such a great information! thank you! i have to tell you some things i knew it,but most of them is new and i am amazed... i will give your post a big +!!
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@crackhead (1826)
• India
19 Apr 07
thanks for the rating and response