Random Facts
Created | Updated Sep 10, 2004
-4,000 Americans are hospitalised every year from vacuum cleaner related accidents. How? No idea.
-Koala's never drink.
-In NZ there was a cat that rode on a motorbike with it's owner. They were both killed in a car accident.
-Carrots can turn your skin a shade of orange if you eat too many.
-Red hair is a sign of zinc in your head.
-Even if both your parents are left-handed, you are more than twice as likely to be right-handed than left. (What about me? Both mine are right-handed)
-The worlds most advanced motorbike was designed by a man with learning difficulties from a country that not many know of. (New Zealand)
-The meaning of life, the universe, and everything is 42. But everyone should know that (:
-A grizzly bear can decapitate a moose with one hit
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is 'screeched
-Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in ever section of the Dewy decimal system
-The volume of the Earth's moon is about the same volume as the Pacific Ocean
-Captain Jean-Luc Picards fish was named Livingston
-The inter-national dial number for Antarctica is 672
-The longest word in the English language (according to Oxford dictionary) is pnumonoultramicrospicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is the plural of it.
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