Since we haven’t done this in a while, we present you now with a list of random, funny, and bizarre facts we adopted from PHIL BRODIE BAND’S FUN PAGE
- You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
- The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700.
- Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air.
- A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday.
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There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people.
- Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music.
- One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
- Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever.
- A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
- If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
- The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats).
- A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts.
- Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law.
- Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.
- An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight.
- The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
- Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much.
- In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone.
- In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
- Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup. (more…)
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