My ever wonderful, tantalizing and marvelous brothers and sisters. How una dey? Hope all is fine? How market? You dey sell? It is well. Don't worry, Be HAPPY!
Some of una don dey para for me sey I never publish the continuation of "MY LIFE AS A CHAIN-SMOKER & HOW I QUIT SMOKING" story (Just incase you missed the PART 1, read HERE
). Abeg no vex, I go publish am later today or tomorrow. Oya smile. Thanks.
In the meantime, let's learn some crazy and interesting real facts....These are links to previous parts - Part 1 , and Part 2.
Remember, 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 - www.thechngblog.blogspot.com . E no easy to collect all these things. Thank you!
Part 3 will mostly be about animals.....Legggggooooo:
1. On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
2. The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick.
3. Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
4. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
5. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
6. According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
7. Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
8. The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
9. Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
10. Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
11. Deer can't eat hay.
12. Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
13. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
14. The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
15. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
16. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
17. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
18. A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
19. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
20. Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
21. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
22. The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
23. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
24. Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
25. Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
26. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
27. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
28. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
29. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
30. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
31. Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.
32. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
33. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
34. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
35. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
If you've gat interesting facts (stupid or sensible, any which way).......let's learn from you too.
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