Impressing your friends is never easier than right now. The internet provides such a plethora of knowledge. Just a word and a few clicks and you know everything about that word. To pump up your knowledge even further, here are 28 random facts that you probably do not know, but might find interesting to know.

1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
2. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
3. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
4. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
5. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
6. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
7. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
8. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
9. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
12. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
13. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
14. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
15. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
16. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
17. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
18. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
19. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
20. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
21. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
22. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
23. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
24. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
25. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
26. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
28. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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Category: Fun, August 2009