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A house fly lives only 14 days.
In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
There are about 53 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep
There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call.
The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.
Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.
One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.
The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood.
Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
You'll drink about 75,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of water in your lifetime.
Hair on the head grows for between two and six years before being replaced.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella
The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
Picasso could draw before he could walk and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.
Vincent van Gogh, the world's most valued painter, sold only 1 painting in his entire life - to his brother who owned an art gallery. The painting is titled "Red Vineyard at Arles."
Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.
Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles.
About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.
To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.
Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.
There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, and lions 55 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned at all.
The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say there were three wise men - Matthew 2:1 only says: "Magi from the east came to Jerusalem" and later they present three gifts.
#6 - Måske - Hvem tør prøve? Og hvordan finder man ud af det? Forestil jer at man har stået i Frankrig ved denne tingest, og et middelalderstopur (sikkert det første af sin slags) - og spurgt: 'Okay - det gjorde pænt ondt det der hva?! - Hva så, hvordan er udsigten dernede i kurven? - Hva sir' du? - Okay - men du vil ikke prøve igen? - hallo? - hallooo?....
#1 filmz-Cyberdog 20 år siden
A house fly lives only 14 days.
In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
There are about 53 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep
There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call.
The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.
Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.
One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.
The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood.
Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
You'll drink about 75,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of water in your lifetime.
Hair on the head grows for between two and six years before being replaced.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella
The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
Picasso could draw before he could walk and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.
Vincent van Gogh, the world's most valued painter, sold only 1 painting in his entire life - to his brother who owned an art gallery. The painting is titled "Red Vineyard at Arles."
Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.
Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles.
About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.
To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.
Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.
There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, and lions 55 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned at all.
The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say there were three wise men - Matthew 2:1 only says: "Magi from the east came to Jerusalem" and later they present three gifts.
http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Cyberdog1971
#2 danschier.dk 20 år siden
#3 filmz-cko 20 år siden
"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't"
#4 filmz-herskegut 20 år siden
The next sentence is fake,
The previous sentence is true.
#5 Patriarch 20 år siden
#6 filmz-cko 20 år siden
"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't"
#7 dyg 20 år siden
#8 filmz-Cyberdog 20 år siden
Og hvordan finder man ud af det?
Forestil jer at man har stået i Frankrig ved denne tingest, og et middelalderstopur (sikkert det første af sin slags) - og spurgt: 'Okay - det gjorde pænt ondt det der hva?! - Hva så, hvordan er udsigten dernede i kurven? - Hva sir' du? - Okay - men du vil ikke prøve igen? - hallo? - hallooo?....
http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Cyberdog1971
#9 filmz-Cyberdog 20 år siden
For nogen.... :)
http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Cyberdog1971
#10 davenport 20 år siden
Tak for nytteløs info. Altid godt!
Jeg fatter dog ikke den med æbler, løg og kartofler, der smager ens. ?