1. The average scalp has 100,000 hairs :ninja:
2. The bubles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top :p
3. There is a city called Rome on every continent. :cool:
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1. The average scalp has 100,000 hairs :ninja:
2. The bubles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top :p
3. There is a city called Rome on every continent. :cool:
Did you know that the average hair count depends on what colour hair you have the the shape of the follicles? 100,000 is about right but red heads have less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
So how many has your scalp? :)
It's far too early to get scientific on my day off :lol: Suffice to say, I have red/brown hair so not as many as the typical blonde.
1. When Pablo Picasso was por he kept warm by burning his own paintings. :eek:
2. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. :p
3. In 2003 Indian twin sisters Kali Bi Sheikh and Batul B Sheikh died on the same day on 29th May. They were also married on the same day, they died at the age of 114 and left 125 grandchildren and great-grandchildren between them. :eek:
1. In 1998, Michael and Kim Blake of Stowmarket in Suffolk had their lawn stolen :hmm:
2. In 2001, a survey revealed that one in three Britons would turn away Chris Evans and Posh Spice if they needed a bed for the night. :cartman:
3. In 2001, rail chiefs warned of possible train delays in the summer because of 'sunshine on the line'. :confused: :eek:
1. Oak trees don't grow acorns until they're 50-years-old or older. :eek:
2. Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do :p
3. Russian vodka-makers have designed a special woman's version of the drink which can be sipped with salad after a work-out at the gym. The inventor of the lady-vodka believes that is is no more harmful for women than eating chocolate. This glamorous product is a best seller in Russia but doctors are concerned it will cause a new wave of female alcoholics. :D I so could do with one of them NOW :lol:
That's probably true. If I'm checking out, I'll put the towels in the bath and put the rubbish in the bin but I don't bother with anything else. The hotel are paying someone to clean the room after I leave, there's no point me wasting my time making the bed and cleaning the bathroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
1. In 1999, a six-year-old boy broke the world record by catching a rainbow trout weighing 19lb 14oz. :eek:
2. Clark Gable used to shower more than four times a day :eek:
3. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created specially for Ronald Reagan. :p
1. On 31 May 1927 the last Model T Ford rolled off the production line. Ford had less success with its model the Punto when they released it in Brazil. Apparently nobody had told them that Punto is Portuguese for 'small male genitals'. :p
2. In 1995, six people were killed in Egypt after jumping into a well to save a chicken. :eek:
3. In 1964, eleven boys were suspended at a school in Coventry for having Mick Jagger haircuts. :eek:
1. In 2000, the 'impossible' Eternity puzzle was solved by an unemployed mathematician - he won the £1 million prize and the inventor had to sell his home to pay it. :eek:
2. A litre of vinegar is heavier in winter than in summer. :cool:
3. A snail's teeth are arranged in rows along its tongue like the edge of a saw. When it eats the snail cuts through its food using this serrated tongue. :p
1. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. :crying:
2. A pregnant goldfish is called a 'twit'. :lol:
3. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. :p
1. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. :eek:
2. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. :D
3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. :p
I must try this, whenever I get a chance to have champagneQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
1. Over 95% of fifteen-year-olds have already developed some decay in their permanent teeth. :eek:
2. Oaks and Poplars are struck by lightning more frequently than any other trees in England. :searchme:
3. In Spain you must always place your right foot in a boat before your left. To step in the other way is to incur almost certain disaster. :p
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Originally Posted by Perdita
1. Ludwig van Beethoven believed that his brain was timulated if he poured ice cold water over his head while he was working :eek:
2. If you have an I.Q. of 180 or over you are literally one person in a million. :cool:
3. The planet Uranus was originally named after George III 'Georgium Sidum'. It was not named after the Roman god until 1850. :)
1. The daily outflow of the Amazon would be enough to supply the USA with two hundred times its daily municipal water requirement.
2. Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
3. Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
1. Ancient Chinese belief held that sperm came from the brain. :hmm: Does this confirm the rumour that some men think with their privates instead of their head?
2. The USA had no national anthem until 1931. :nono:
3. Some of the dams built by beavers are as much as fifteen metres long. :eek:
1. The first man to be imprisoned for a traffic offence was ironically the first motorist Nicholas Cugnot, who drove his steam-powered tractor into a stone wall, at the top speed of six and a half kilometres an hour. :wall:
2. You can make up for a deficiency in vitamin A by eating young dandelions. :p
3. One psychological study has revealed that women talk about men three times as often as men talk about women. :D
1. If your hair should suddelny stand on end for no apparent reason, there is a strong likelihood that you are about to be struck by lightning. :eek:
2. You can tell a fish's age by counting the rings on its scales in the same way that you can estimate the age of a tree by counting the rings in the trunk. :cool:
3. Gambling dens in 18th century England employed one man with the sole responsibility of swallowing the dice if ever there was a raid. :eek:
1. Among the sports considered to be unsuitable for Sunday recreation during the reign of James I were bear-baiting, short plays and mines and bowling. :eek:
2. Only one quarter of the amount of plants grow on land each year as grow in the ocean. :eek:
3. Crows are able to distinguish a man with a gun from one without. I wonder how the found that out? :hmm:
1. Pink elephants are not only products of alcoholic indulgence. In the Tsavo region of Kenya the elephants bathe in pink mud which dries on them when they leave the mud pools. :cool:
2. The Royal Mint only produced four pennies in 1933. :eek:
3. Benjamin Hall, the eighteenth century politician, weighed 158 kilograms, which explains why the bell named after him is called Big Ben. :p
1. Cleopatra's Needle in London has no connection with that Egyptian ruler except for the name. It was erected in Egypt more than 1,400 years before Cleopatra's birth :cool:
2. Piano keys are generally made from the wood of the Hornbeam.
3. The redwood tree has fireproof bark.
1. Domestic cats spend only one third of their lives awake, compared with their owners who spend only one third of their lives asleep. :)
2. Saudi Arabia imports sand from Scotland and camels from North Africa. :p
3. The worst tornado ever recorded hurtled over Texas at a speed only slightly slower than the official World Water Speed Record, 464.45 km/h :eek:
1. The sun burns 240,000,000 tonnes of hydrogen dust every minute. :eek:
2. Ducks only lay eggs early in the morning. :p
3. The first 'guinea-pigs' to undergo smallpox vaccination in England were seven eighteenth century criminals. As a reward they were pardoned - after their recovery. :D
1. The world's highest waterfall, the Angel Falls in Venezuela, is over twice as high as the world's tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago.
2. A fish's heart has two chambers.
3. Cabinet makers used to use shark skin as fine grade 'sandpaper'.
1. Bungalows are named after the Hindi word 'bangla' which means 'belonging to Bengal'.
2. Accordint to ancient Moslem tradition Eve ate a fig in the garden of Eden, not an apple. In fact there is no reference in the Bible to an apple either.
3. The sailfish can swim faster than a horse can gallop.
1. The so-called whalebone that was used to restrain corpulent female figures in the past was in fact baleen, a flexible substance in the whale's mouth.
2. Napoleon Bonaparte designed the Italian flag.
3. In one of his portraits of Charles I Van Dyck painted the king wearing his full armour and carrying two gauntlets, both for his right hand
1. two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left..........
2. i used to be indecisve but now i'm not so sure
3. why do today what you can put off for another week
:rotfl: Really like these, especially the second one.
In response to no. 1 I have this for you:Quote:
Originally Posted by annette_tr9
Su Wong marries Lee Wong. The next year,
the Wongs have a new baby.
The nurse brings out a lovely, healthy, bouncy,
but definitely a Caucasian, WHITE baby boy.
'Congratulations,' says the nurse to the new parents...
'Well Mr. Wong, what will you and Mrs. Wong name the baby?'
The puzzled father looks at his new baby boy and says,
'Well, two Wong's don't make a white,
so I think we will name him...
Are you ready for this?
Sum Ting Wong
1. Crickets hear through their knees, cicadas hear thorugh their stomachs :eek:
2. In strict medical terms, morons are more intelligent than imbeciles, who in turn are more intelligent than idiots.
3. A law in the state of Ohio, USA requires domestic animals that are out after lighting-up time to wear taillights. :confused: How are they going to manage that?
for 2: where do blonds rake in this list :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
and 3: I can only think of one place to stick a tailight on animals and I would hate to be the one to enforce this
:rotfl: to the blonde question lol
1. The dollar sign is a modified version of the figure eight which used to be stamped on the old Spanish 'pieces of eight'. :)
2. Spain is named after the Carthaginian word meaning 'land of rabbits'. :D
3, Women of the Asian Kirghiz tribe face instand divorce if they dare to mention their husbands' names. :eek:
1. Research has shown that a dog wagging his tail more to the left is more friendly :searchme: Is that before he bites you or after?
2. Research has shown that cat owners are more intelligent than dog owners. :eek: Don't shoot the messenger, it's what I heard on the radio this morning
3. Nelson suffered from severe sea-sickness throughout most of his life. :sick:
1. 1 in 5 people want to spend Valentines Day with their pet :D
2. It is said that Queen Victoria wore a new pair of bloomers every day :eek:
3. The Belgian state airline Sabena was originally called 'Societe Anonyme pour l'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne' :eek:
I'm quite happy to do that :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
1. Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel
more alert. :)
2. The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat. :eek:
3. The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.