Tongue Facts

• Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.
• There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.
• Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
• 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
• We have four basic tastes. The salt and sweet taste buds are at the tip of the tongue, bitter at the base, and sour along the sides.
• Not all our taste buds are on our tongue; about 10% are on the palette and the cheeks.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.

Facts About Tornado

• Tornados, or twisters as they are often called, are rapidly rotating columns of air, many times in a funnel shape, which touch the earth. They most often hang down from cumulonimbus clouds and can cause much damage on the ground.
• Tornados may form when a warm front meets a cold front forming a thunderstorm which can spawns one or more twisters. But, this is an oversimplification. Rotating thunderstorms called mesocyclones are the best predictors of tornadic activity.
• Mesocyclones are also called supercells and are well defined thunderstorms on radar. Supercells may also include hail, severe winds, lightning and flash floods.
• Most twisters or cyclones travel from southwest to northeast, though this is not always the case. Some can move in the opposite direction for short periods and may even backtrack if hit by winds from the thunderstorm's core.
• Funnel clouds usually last less than 10 minutes before dissipating with many only lasting several seconds. On rare occasions, cyclones can last for over an hour as many were reported to have done in the early 1900's. (source: tornadofactsdotnet)
  

Alarming Facts About Marijuana

Here are some Alarming Facts About Marijuana.

• Within a few minutes of inhaling marijuana smoke, users likely experience dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, some loss of coordination and poor sense of balance, and slower reaction times, along with intoxication.
• THC suppresses the neurons in the information-processing system of the hippocampus, the part of the brain that is crucial for learning, memory, and the integration of sensory experiences with emotions and motivation.
• All forms of marijuana are mind-altering. In other words, they change how the brain works.
• Sometimes marijuana makes users feel thirsty and very hungry - an effect called "the munchies." Marijuana affects memory, judgment and perception.
• Studies show that someone who smokes five joints per day may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a full pack of cigarettes every day

Christmas Facts

• Santa has a calculated 31 hours to thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west.
• Pope Julius I declared Christ’s birthday as December 25th sometime during the 4th century.
• Christmas trees received their first written acknowledgement in Germany in 1531.
• The tradition of hanging stockings over the fireplace derived from Dutch children placing their shoes next to the fireplace on Christmas Eve. Stockings later replaced the shoes.
• Until the turkey, a goose was the most popular fare served at a Christmas meal.
• The popular Christmas carol Silent Night was written by an Austrian priest named Joseph Mohr in 1818 as a result of a broken church organ.
• Christmas trees such a Douglas fir and Evergreen are grown in all 50 states of America.
• The abbreviation of Christmas to Xmas partially comes from the Greek letter ‘chi’, the first letter of the word ‘Christos’, meaning ‘Christ’.
• Australian priests suggest saying “Happy Christmas” instead of Merry Christmas since “merry” often referred to drinking alcohol.
• Bing Crosby’s Christmas classic “White Christmas” is the best-selling Christmas song of all time.
• The red stripe in the candy cane was intended by the inventor as the blood of Christ.
• Mistletoe myth states should a woman appearing under the mistletoe not receive a kiss, she will not marry the following year.
• The first Christmas card was designed by John Horsley in 1840 but was not sold until 1843.
• Christmas wreaths of holly and berries are believed to represent Christ’s thorns and blood.
• In Mexico, the poinsettia plant is called “Flower of the Holy Night”.
• Tinsel became a popular Christmas tree adornment after a mythical spider created sprawling webs from branch to branch. It is believe the Christ Child changed the webs to a silver colour.
• Oklahoma was the last state to proclaim Christmas day as a legal holiday in 1907.
• Poet Clark Moore is credited with naming Santa’s reindeer; Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Doneder, Prancer, and the most famous reindeer, Rudolph.
• The colours in Santa Claus’ suit, red and white, were the creation of artist Haddon Sundblom. Sundblom was commissioned by the Coca-Cola Company to redesign Santa Claus, although, Thomas Nast was the first artist to illustrate Santa Claus.
• Austria issued the first Christmas stamp in 1937.
• While working for inventor Thomas Edison, Edward Johnson had lights crafted especially for his Christmas tree leading to the popularization of Christmas tree light.

Largest Penis Statue in China

The 30ft erection, named Sky Pillar, has been built at Longwan Shaman Amusement Park in Changchun city. Builders wrapped more than 6,500ft of straw around the steel structure which stands on an altar atop 1,250ft high Qinlong Hill.

"It is a totem of Shamanistic culture, which originated in this city," says the president of the park, Cheng Weiguang.

Facts About Your Feet

1. The largest feet in the world belong to a Mr Matthew McGrory who lives in America whose feet are a whopping size 28½ (US size). The 7ft4in resident of Florida, USA has to fork out a massive $22,745 for a pair of shoes to fit his unusually large feet.
2. The record for the most feet sniffed belongs to a Madeline Albrecht, Cincinatti, Ohio, USA. So far, throughout her career working for a research company testing footcare products for Scholl, Madeline has sniffed approximately 5,600 feet.
3. The Achilles tendon located in the heel of the foot was named after one of the most famous mythical characters from Ovid's 'Illiad'. In an attempt to immortalize her son, Thetis (Achilles' Mother) dipped Achilles into the River Styx, holding him by his ankle. Therefore his ankle became the only part of his body capable of sustaining a mortal wound. This is why he strongest tendon in the foot acquired the name of Achilles tendon.
4. The average person walks about 10,000 steps a day. During a lifetime it is thought that a person has walked enough steps top have traveled around the planet more than 4 times, which is approximately 115,000 miles!
5. 25% of bones in the human body are located in the feet, which are made up from 52 bones.

source: foothealthcare.com

Facts About Sunfish

Image credit: earthwindow.com

• The sunfish has many names, including "ocean sunfish" and "mola mola". Mola mola is the scientific name for ocean sunfish. My 3 year old niece knows this very well.
  

The mola are the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large specimens reaching 14 feet (4.2 meters) vertically and 10 feet (3.1 meters) horizontally and weighing nearly 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms). Sharks and rays can be heavier, but they're cartilaginous fish.

Fast Facts about Ocean Sunfish or Mola Mola

• Type: Fish
• Diet: Omnivore
• Average lifespan in captivity: Up to 10 years
• Size: 11 ft (3.3 m)
• Weight: Up to 5,000 lbs (2,250 kg)
• Group name: School
• sunfish can become so infested with skin parasites, they will often invite small fish or even birds to feast on the pesky critters.
• Size relative to a 6ft (2m) man:

source: nationalgeographic.com

Facts About Sharks

• Largest Living The biggest shark is the whale shark (Rhincodon or Rhiniodon typus), which can be up to 50 feet (15 m) long. It is a filter feeder and sieves enormous amounts of plankton to eat through its gills as it swims. It is also the biggest fish. The second biggest fish and shark is the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) which is about 40 feet (12.3 m) long and is another filter feeder.
• The biggest meat-eating shark is the Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) which grows to be up to 21 feet (6.4 m) long. Great whites up to 37 feet (11.3 m) long have been reported, but not verified.
• Largest Extinct The largest shark known was the Megalodon (Carcharodon or Carcharocles megalodon); it is now extinct. It was an ancient, meat-eating shark that lived between 25 million and 1.6 million years ago. It was up to 40 feet (12 m) long and its teeth were each the size of a person's hand!
• Smallest The smallest sharks are: Dwarf Lanternfish (Etmopterus perryi), which is about 7 1/2 to 8 inches (19 - 20 cm) long for fully-grown females and 6 to 7 inches (16 - 17.5 cm) long for adult males
  Spined pygmy shark (Squaliolus laticaudus), which is about 8 inches (21 cm) long for fully-grown females and 7 inches (18 cm) long for males
  Pygmy ribbontail catshark (Eridacnis radcliffei) , which is about 6 to 7 inches (15 - 16 cm) long for fully-grown females and 7 to 7 1/2 inches (18 - 19 cm) long for males.
• Most Dangerous The oceanic white-tipped sharks are the most fearless predators. Jacques-Yves Cousteau says that it is: "the only species of shark that is never frightened by the approach of a diver, and they are the most dangerous of all sharks."
• Fastest The fastest swimming sharks are the mako sharks and blue sharks, which can even leap out of the water. They are also probably the fastest fish. Estimates of their speed varies; some say that they can swim at about 60 miles per hour (97 kph), while more conservative estimates are about 22 mph (35 kph). There hasn't been enough observation of their speeds to have an definitive answer.
• Largest Mouth The whale shark has the biggest mouth among sharks.
• LONGEST TAIL The thresher sharks have the longest tail among sharks; the upper lobe of their tails are about the same length as their bodies.
• Strongest Bite The strongest shark bite belongs to the dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus); its jaws have been measured to exert 132 pounds of force. Find Out More....
  

source: new-brunswick.net/new-brunswick/sharks/facts.html

Ten Facts About the Earth

1. Earth is the only planet in the Solar System to have water in its three states of matter: as a solid (ice), a liquid (sea, rain, etc.) and as a gas (clouds). These are all shown below. Water is, of course, the most important liquid for life.
2. Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years. This means that life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime.
3. Earth and Mercury are the two most dense planets in the Solar System. This means that particles inside the planet are most closely packed together.
4. The length of time it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun is 365 and a quarter days. To make up this extra quarter which isn't counted at the end of a year, we have an extra day every four years on 29th February. This year, 2000, is a Leap Year. The next Leap Year will be in 2004.
5. Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an extra second is added to make up for lost time. Millions of years ago, a day on Earth will have been 20 hours long. It is believed that, in millions of years time, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.
6. The centre of the Earth, its core, is molten. This means that it is liquid rock which sometimes erupts onto the surface through volcanic eruptions. This core is 7,500°c, hotter than the surface of the Sun!
7. Earth is the only planet in the Solar System not to be named after a mythical God.
8. Despite being called Earth, only 29% of the surface is actually 'earth.' The rest of the planet's surface (71%) is made up of water.
9. From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet's water.
10. Earth is the only planet in the Solar System known to be geologically active, with Earthquakes and volcanoes forming the landscape, replenishing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and erasing impact craters from meteors.

Facts About The Brain

1. The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
2. The adult human brain is about 2% of the total body weight.
3. The elephant brain weighs about 6,000 g.
4. The cat brain weighs about 30 g.
5. The average human brain is 140 mm wide.
6. The average human brain is 167 mm long.
7. The average human brain is 93 mm high.
8. The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
9. The octopus brain has about 300 million neurons.
10. The total surface area of the cerebral cortex is about 2500 sq. cm (~2.5 ft²)

What is Google

Google, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. by Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it's name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it. (source: interestingfacts.org)

What is Yahoo?

Yahoo the complex internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang. (interestingfacts.org)

Interesting, Unusual, Weird, Funny Facts 1-25 C

1. Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.
2. Astronauts grow taller in space
3. At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
4. At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
5. At -40 degrees fahrenheit,a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.
6. At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
7. At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
8. At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent.
9. At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
10. At Arkansas State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway unless they belong to a union.
11. At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
12. At birth, bear cubs weigh between 1/2 1 pound.
13. At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.
14. At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice" following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.
15. At one time in India, a fiance was required to deflower his future bride if she died before the wedding. The girl could not be cremated until this ritual was carried out in front of the village priest.
16. At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land"), while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.
17. At one time, there was a law in India that forbade lower-caste people from casting their shadows on a member of the Brahman (the upper class).
18. At one time, Venus de Milo had arms.
19. At sea level there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body area.
20. At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
21. At the beginning of the year 2001 all Canadian cigarette packaging will depict graphic images of rotting teeth and deteriorating organs.
22. At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center.
23. At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
24. At the end of WWII the Germans had more planes than the start of the war.
25. At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.

Interesting, Unusual, Weird, Funny Facts 1-25 B

1. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
2. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (so what are you waiting for?)
3. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
4. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
5. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. (hmm...................)
6. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
7. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
8. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
9. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
10. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
11. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
12. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
13. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (not sure how they found this out...hmmmmm)
14. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
15. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
16. Polar bears are left handed. (ever tried shaking hands with the polar bears?!)
17. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
18. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
19. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
20. The mate praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Sounds like a girl I know now!)
21. A gorilla's penis is 1/3 the length of that of a humans. (The guy who did the measuring must have balls!)
22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (They're also the only animals with 4 knees)
25. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Interesting, Unusual, Weird, Funny Facts 1-25

1. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
2. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
3. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
4. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
5. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
6. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
7. This expression originated in British India Raj days among the upper class Indians. An informal Sari was (is) 6 yards long. A formal Sari was (is) 9 yards long. When going to a function, the Indian ladies had to decide whether to go the "whole nine yards" or not.
8. Also another Theory For the "Whole 9 Yards" Is The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
9. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
10. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
11. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
12. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
13. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.
14. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
15. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
16. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
17. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
18. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
19. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
20. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
21. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
22. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
23. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
24. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
25. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

Important Facts About the Human Eyes

• Are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
• Are composed of more than two million working parts.
• Can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
• Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
• Contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
• Utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
• Can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
• In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
• The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
• The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion.
• The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them!

Facts About Dalmatians

This Spotted dog has been loved by many for years.
It is believed that this breed came from Dalmatia
in Croatia many years ago.


Dalmatians were used as "war dogs" and some have
been used as "bird dogs"..
Some believe that their roots stem back
to the Pointer Breed.. Though most are
Companion dogs now,Many spotted Dals
could be seen running along side coaches in earlier years..


They are a Strong, Muscular, Very Active Breed
with a beautiful spotted coat that can range in colors..
The AKC Standard is Black and White,
and Liver(brown) and White..
But there are Blues,
Lemons(light brown or yellow) also..


Dalmatian puppies are born Pure White,
and start getting their spots in a couple
of weeks..


Deafness is a problem in this Breed,
as with other white dogs or cats..
A repututable breeder will test
the hearing before breeding
and each puppy in the litter
after it is born..


The dalmatian is the only breed
with the inabilty to process Protein properly
in its diet, this can lead to bladder stones
that can be life threating..
A low purine/protein diet is
a must for a dalmatian..
with ample drinking water
and timely potty breaks..


Some foods high in Purine to Avoid:
Liver, Sardines, Scallops,
Beef, Kidney, Game Meats..


Some Low Purine Foods:
Pasta, eggs, poultry,cheese..


Straining to urinate is a sign of trouble,
Seek medical advise quickly..


Although Dals hair is Short,
they are year round shedders..
Freequent brushing helps with this..


These Spotted dogs are the original
"velcro dog"
as they love their companions
and "Stick" by them at all times..
A dalmatian Needs companionship..
They are NOT a "Tie Outside Dog"..
No dog should be !!


A dalmatian will never
grow tired of play..
Is Always hungry..
Will love you unconditionally..
Will be your protector..
Your Faithful Companion..
Your Loyal Friend..
and a SPOTTED CLOWN......

I Joined Bloggerwave

Bloggerwave has been the subject of negative feedbacks these past months, chiefly on account of non payments or delayed payments. However, bloggerwave was able to patch up things and have paid unpaid bloggers. Bloggerwave is now looking for various options to have a back up payment system in place to ensure that bloggers receive their payments on time. With this new information regarding bloggerwave I was convinced to join. I had my eyes fixed on bloggerwave even before paypal was not yet open to Filipinos. Now I'm officially in. So far, there are no offers from bloggerwave to make money from. It's only been days since I joined, so its too early to conclude. But let's see..

Fattest Man

His name is Manuel Uribe and he is the Worlds fattest man and he lives in mexico. His Starting weight was 580 kg/1200 pound. He is on a strict diet, and exercise to loose some weight. He has lost lots of pounds already.. Ill try to post his most latest picture soon.

The Fattest Animals

The biggest mouse
5 times bigger than an ordinary mouse

A fat cat. Not confirmed if its the fattest
but it looks like the fattest cat ive ever seen.

The fattest dog

The fattest Giraffe