25 strange, interesting facts... ...

[majithia23]

1-- Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

2-- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

3-- The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

4-- How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

5-- In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

6-- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

7-- There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

8-- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

9-- Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

10-- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue .

11-- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

12-- People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

13-- If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

14-- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

15-- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

16-- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

17-- Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car.

18-- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times , no matter the size . try .

19-- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

20-- The three most valuable brand names on earth -- Marlboro, Coca Cola, Budweiser.

21-- Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be

able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after

such a large amount. (Common Sense)

22-- The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier

than the weight of the human population.

23-- Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people

die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of

people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,

than before you finished reading this.

23-- The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom

underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

24-- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than

left-handed people do.

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[marshall39]

US prisonner caught with a cell phone gets 25 years added to their sentence!! :frusty:

[chlorophyll]

Interesting Computer Facts

1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

2. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

3. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

7. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

11. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

12. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

13. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

14. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

15. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

0 16. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

17. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

18. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

19. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.