Thursday, August 03, 2006

Did you know???????????

I found some interesting and useless facts I thought I'd share with you all.

Did you know??????????????

1. A tipe rope walker is called a funambulist.
2. Flounders swim sideways
3. A human eye can, given enough time to adjust, see almost as well as an owl's.
4. The rush of air produced by a cough can approach 1000km an hour. (scary seeing I've been coughing for over a week now).
5. Greyhounds eyesight is the best of any bread of dog.
6. In the time it takes to read this sentence, 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced.
7. It takes a tonne of ore to produce one gold wedding ring.
8. 214 crates were used to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885.
9. The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.

Hope you have great day.

Carlton
Never pay for the same kilo twice.

3 comments:

abc said...

A funambulist? What a word! LOL Hope you're starting to feel better Carlton.

Mary said...

Funambulist hey, sounds a bit naughty to me ;-) Have a great weekend!

Mel. said...

thanks it was a fun thing to post.