joi, octombrie 16, 2008

Useless Knowledge

The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

ZIP = Zoning Improvement Plan

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

All polar bears are left-handed.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. (that doesn't make us liars even more >:P)

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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Look'em up on google for sum more.

2 comentarii:

Unknown spunea...

De ce au scos coca din Coca-Cola? Lame arses!

vix spunea...

că ajungeam toți niște junkies la câți litri de cola dăm pe gât :D