Monday, October 27, 2008

Do you know?

*Chocolate can kill dogs-it directly effects their brain and nervous system.

*Turtles can breathe through their anus.

*Camels have three eyelids

*Carrots were purple in the middle ages.

*Goldfish have 3 month memories(not 3 second).

*Your body creates and kills 15 million blood cells every second.

*Humans are responsible for the deaths of around 70 million sharks each year.

*A lightning bolt strikes so fast it could circle the globe eight times in a second.

*Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

*Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson each grew up believing their mothers to be their sisters.

*Mongolians put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

*There is an average of 90 suicides a day in Japan.

*Coca-Cola was originally green.

*The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because
when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.

*Each king in a pack of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades-King David ,
Clubs-Alexander the Great ,Hearts-Charlamagne and Diamonds-Julius Caeser.

*It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

*M&Ms were developed so that soldiers could eat chocolate without getting sticky fingers.

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