Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Random facts

Found a brilliant website of random facts, mostly American.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

Heres the most interesting ones:

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you wan

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