Brain Food
Here is some trivia for you. I received these via email but I have not had a chance to verify all of them. I question a few, but most of them I have heard one time or another. Enjoy.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
- The first product [purchased] to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but, not downstairs.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
