Sunday, April 22, 2007

Random "Real Facts"


These are all from Snapple.com:


A bee has 5 eyelids.

An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.

There is a town called Big Ugly, West Virginia.

It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.

Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.

Slugs have 4 noses.

In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed.

Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.

Caller ID is illegal in California.

A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.

The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.

Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.

The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.

If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.



The only one I have a problem with is the last one. You will not be heading west, you will be heading north-northwest. Check out the map. If you head directly west from LA, you will drive into the ocean.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haha you put this up! im glad you enjoyed it instead of me bugging the shit out of you posting random facts to you every 3 seconds.....which i thought i was doing haha. yeah the california one i still have yet to get. they lie! they also dont have adequate contact information so i cant make them explain it to me.