#BloggingRedefined - 35 CRAZY BUT TRUE FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW! [PART 1]

Hello my wonderful people, how una dey....how market and body? Hope you dey make the necessary money legally? God bless us all.

Hen hen! I wan dey give you some crazy facts una no sabi before (some of you fit don sabi am)....this should be of help to some people sha......and mind you, they are all for real. You are going to be seeing more of this here as long as I keep getting more through my thorough research. Thatz why this one is part 1.....e fit reach 200 parts.....Beeni.

You are free to use them on your presentation materials (publication, website, blog, power point, seminars, lecture, tv show, etc), but please have the courtesy to QUOTE THE SOURCE - thechngblog.blogspot.com . E no easy to dey collect all these things. Thank you!
1. It is impossible to lick your elbow. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
2. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
5. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
8. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
12. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
13. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
14. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
15. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

16. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
17. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
18. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
19. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
20. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

21. Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
22. The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.
21. 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. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
22. In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
23. Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.
24. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
25. Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.

26. In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
27. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
28. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
29. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
30. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

31. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
32. Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
33. Hot water is heavier than cold.
34. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
35. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

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