Friday, 19 April 2013

DID YOU KNOW

THAT WHICH YOU DON'T KNOW IS YOUR MASTER... 20 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW. 1. The worlds largest yacht is 590 feet (approximately 197 yards) long and 94,000 horsepower. 2. Twelve people have walked on the moon. 3. When the Titanic departed from port it was documented to have carried approximately 1000 loaves of bread, 86,000 pounds of meat, 40,000 eggs. and 36,000 apples to feed the passengers and crew on the 7 day voyage. 4. Dogs can have a fatal reaction to eating chocolate. Chocolate contains a bitter alkaloid called Theobromine also known as Xantheose and that’s the active ingredient that’s bad for the dog. 5. For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius. 6. The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India. 7. The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and died at the young age of 17. 8. The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs. 9. Did you know the first bullet proof vest and windshield wiper blades were both invented by women? Cool! 10. The price of the Titanic cost about $7 million to build and the price of the Titanic movie was about $200 million to make. Unbelievable! 11. The only animal with four knees is the elephant. 12. The eye of an ostrich is larger than it’s brain. 13. A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants. Incredible! 14. Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight. 15. A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day. Huh! 16. Lung cancer was how the cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died. 17. Snails can sleep for up to 3 years. 18. Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors. 19. Turtle can breathe through it’s butt. Hahaha, Funny! 20. In the North Pole, penguins do not exist.

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