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18 years old. light brown curly hair. dark brown eyes. i love my family and friends, fashion magazines, shopping, & animals. im still trying to figure out what im good at in life and what i want to do.

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  • there is 300 sextillion stars in the sky (300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)!
  • your ring size is about the same size as your foot (if you wear a size 7-8 in shoes, your ring size is 7 or 8)
  • 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
  • 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun
  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  • A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  • A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
  • Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
  • Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
  • Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  • During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
  • Every person has a unique tongue print.
  • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
  • Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
  • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  • If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  • In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
  • In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
  • In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
  • In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
  • Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  • Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
  • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  • Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. (_i dont understand how this one is possible_)
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
  • On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
  • One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
  • Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  • Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
  • Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
  • Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
  • Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
  • "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  • Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
  • The average person laughs 15 times a day.
  • The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
  • The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
  • The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
  • The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
  • The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
  • The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
  • The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
  • The state of Florida is bigger than England.
  • There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

im pretty sure these are all true. i got most of them from this website: http://www.tealdragon.net/humor/facts/facts.htm

jan 15 2011 ∞
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