193 Funny and Interesting Facts PART-3

62.According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor. If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't registera change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the ther mostat too high while on summer vacation. 63.Western Electric successfullybrought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone. 64.On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics. 65.The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick. 66.Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roarlike lions. 67.Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships. 68.Sloths take two weeks to digest their food. 69.Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat. 70.The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cock fighting, which is popular in many areas of the world. 71.According to the Wall Street Journal, the cock fighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that. 72.Sharks and rays are theonly animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage. 73.The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet. 74.Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out ontheir own. 75.Skunks can accurately spraytheir smelly fluid as far as ten feet. 76.Deercan't eat hay. 77.Gopher snakes in Arizonaare not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattle snakes. 78.On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although notas colorful. 79.The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks. 80.The life spanof a squirrel is about nine years. 81.North American oysters do not make pearls of any value. 82.Human birth control pills work on gorillas. 83.Many sharks lay eggs,but hammer heads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammer heads are usually born head first, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more stream lined for birth. 84.Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day. 85.A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare. 86.There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos. 87.Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jelly fish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live. 88.The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting. 89.The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.90.A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink. 91.Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces. 92.Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe. 93.Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats in hale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task. 94.The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months.The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years. 95.You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36. 96.Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

193 Funny and Interesting Facts PART-2

35.Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an under nourished camel will not have a hump. 36.In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the"Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky. 37.Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. 38.Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road. 39.Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees. 40.The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoe maker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector space craft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon. 41.Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world. 42.The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists'favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles. 43.Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters. 44.Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. 45.Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced. 46.Hot water is heavier than cold. 47.Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element. 48.If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure. 49.The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors. 50.The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm. 51.Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air. 52.On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity. 53.Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993. 54.Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papersdo not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper. 55.Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most table ware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper. 56.A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass. 57.A chip of silicona quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block. 58.An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call anA-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb. 59.At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an odd ball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale. 60.At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length. 61.The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's ellipticalorbit that is farthest from the Earth). Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigeeof the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.

193 Funny and Interesting Facts PART-1

If you use these small jokes on your presentation materials (publication, website, powerpoint, seminars, lecture, tv show, etc), please have the courtesy to QUOTE THE SOURCE. It is not easy collecting all these. Thank you!Please note that some of the 'facts' below have been proven false myths. An example is the duck's echo which does not echo (but proved that it does). 1.It is impossible to lick your elbow ( busted) 2.A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out. 3.A shrimp's heart is in it's head. 4.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second. 5.In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand. 6.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 7.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. ( busted?) 8.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 9.Rats and horses can't vomit. 10.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracturea rib. 11.If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.12.If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.13.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.14.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.15.In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.16.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.17.Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.18.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 19.23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photo copying their butts.20.In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.21.Most lipstick contains fish scales.22.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.23.Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.24.A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.25.Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blendof cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.26.The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to"quality" music.27.Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.28.Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6").Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.29.In 1955 the richest woman in the worldwas Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the10 wealthiest women in the world.30.Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images ontoa white screen.31.In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nicholsrefused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.32.The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.33.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feelthirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.34.According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.

EXCLUSIVE JOKES-2 FOOLISH,STUPID SON

one day,MR uche and MR john were talking about their son,MR uche said"my son is the most stupid son i have ever see.MR john said"your son is not as stupid as my son,that my son is completely useless...let me proof it for you to see...

Mr john:james,come here...go and help me buy something in the market.

james:[he did not even bother to ask his father what will he buy and also he did not ask for money...he just run to the market]

Mr john:you can see that my son is stupid..

Mr uche:Is that what you call stupid?just wait and let me call my son...

Mr uche:peter,come here..go and ask your mother maybe am at home..

peter:[peter just run to the house and come back later..]dad,my mother said you were not at home...

Mr uche:you can see what am talking about now..the boy is too stupid...

Mr john:O'lord of mercy!your son situation done pass my son ooo,so you dont know that your papa they for here..

LWKMD!!!

BEST JOKES OF THE DAY-WAPCALIPHATE AND HIS FRIEND


One day,am telling my friend,john a story which contain 4parts,our story goes like this.....

wapcaliphate:part1-one day,a man was driving her wife to camp,when they reach junction,the man said which side will i pass now,the wife said-pass left side,then the man slap the wife-are you d 1 driving or me

john:ahaaaa(laughing..)

wapcaliphate:part2-when they reach house,the man ask his wife-this food has no salt,the wife slap the man-are you the one cooking or me.

johnlaughing....)ahahahahahaha

wapcaliphate:now Part4

Johncuts in...)what about part3?

wapcaliphateI gave john a hot slap...)are you the one telling the story or me?

john fainted!

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JOKES-A PASTOR AND HIS CHURCH MEMBER IN A SERIOUS PRAYER

A Pastor added one of his church members on facebook and then there chat was follow like this....

PASTOR:How Are You Brother Sam

Sam:am fine sir

PASTOR:may the heavenly thunder of favour come your way in jesus name

Samno reply)

PASTOR:may the heavenly fire of glory enter your house in jesus name

Samno reply)

PASTOR:are you there sam?be saying amen to my prayer now

Sam:yes sir,i have a prayer for you also sir

PASTOR:may the heavy downpour rain of success enter your house

Sam:i have a prayer for you also

PASTOR:ok am listening but say amen to my prayer first

Sam:ok sir

PASTOR:may the storm of favour comes to your way

Sam:my prayer for you also sir-may the trailer of blessing hit you on the road .

PASTOR:MAY GOD FORGIVE YOUR MOUTH......

please drop your comments!ahaaaahaa.very funny

JOKES-AKPOS IMPREGNATED HIS GIRLFRIEND AND DENIED IT

Akpos'girlfriend discovered that she was pregnant and she call akpos on phone....

girlfriend:Hello Dear!

Akpos:How Are You Sweetie

GirlFriend:Am fine,congratulation!

Akpos:for what ooo?

GirlFriend:I missed my period!

Akpos:Which Subject Be That?

GirlFriend:You Must Be Stupid,I Said am pregnant for you

Akpos:goodluck to you! who is the man that impregnated you?

GirlFriend:Are You Not The One

Akpos:Sorry Dear,this is wrong number,chanchi chun chin....

GirlFriend:Idiot,Let Me catch you......

Akpos is a liar ooo.share this post on your facebook.

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AKPOS AND HIS FRIEND OJO[CONFESSION AND TRICKS]

Akpos and ojo were drinking palmwine together one evening...

ojo:AKpos,i have a confession to make

AKpos:whats that?

ojo:last week,i slept with your wife.please forgive me

AKpos:[he thinks for a while...]there is no problem,i forgive you

The Following Week..Ojo went to go and greet Akpos as usual...

ojo:AKpos,am not happy at all,somebody harvested all my farm crops.

Akpos:i have a confession to make,please forgive me am the one that harvested all your farm crops

ojo:[he thinks for a while and said..]what are friends for! i forgive you

2 Weeks Later,AKpos went to go and greet ojo..

ojo:AKpos,drink your palmwine now

Akpos:ok,i will drink[Akpos started drinking..]

ojo:AKpos,which cloth am goin to wear on your burial

AKpos:am not yet dead now

ojo:sorry friend,i have poisoned your wine,4give me

Akpos:i forgive you but am sorry,i exchange our drinks..

ojo fainted...

who is smatter between them? drop comment!

FUNNY AKPOS,HIM PAPA AND HIS TEACHER [ILLITERATE]


Akpos was sent away from school and he was orderd to call his parent when coming tomorrow.the next day,papa akpos followed akpos to school,

Papa akpos:good morning teacher,my pikin talk say you drive am commot for school,weytin he do?

teacher:your son no know book at all,he no fit spell common lion

papa akpos:aaaaah! teacher you be bad person oo,how you go they tell akpos say make him spell lion,you know say he be small boy now,you for tell am make he spell small animal like rat.that lion is too big for him

teacher:i can see that both you and your son are very stupid

papa akpos:yes yes yes,thats the name of akpos'brother

teacher:nawao,am sorry for you! like father like son,bird of the same feather

papa akpos:see this teacher oo! na me you they talk say i have feather,where is the feather now! teacher you 2 day lie.abi akpos,u see feather 4 my hand?

akpos:i no see feather oo

teacher:oh my God! CommoN get out of here..aaha

FUNNY AKPOS GOT HIS GIRLFRIEND INTO TROUBLE.READ IT NOW


Akpos seatdown and think of what he can do to his girlfriend because he have spent much on her but he never enjoy her before...

next day,akpos take her girlfriend out to go and eat in the most expensive eatery,akpos did not eat anything,but his girlfriend orderd for rice,chicken,turkey,drinks

Akpos was looking at her but he did not say anything,then a few minutes later,akpos told his girlfriend that he want to go and ease himself in the toilet

When akpos reach outside,he look left and right and he jump over the fence and runaway

when they did not see akpos,then they beat his girlfriend because she did not have any money with her,,,

later in the evening,Akpos call his girlfriend number...

akpos:hello dear! hope everything is fine?

akpos girlfriend:who is your dear?you must be stupid,they beat the hell out of me today and you run away.idiot!

akpos:calmdown,you have not see anything yet,you will still see more.ahahaha!

FUNNY AKPOS IN EXAM HALL


during an exam,Akpos have answered 8questions out of 9,when he reach question 9,he bent down,looking under the table,then he would write on the answer sheet,his teacher saw him and thought that Akpos was cheating.when collecting paper after they have all through with their exam,then the teacher call AKPOS....

teacher:AKPOS,am going to minus 20marks out of your scores.

akpos:haaaaah! why sir?

teacher:for cheating in the exam hall

akpos:i am not cheating sir,please read the question9 sir(it says:study the table below)

teacher:Ahahahahahaha!The table they are talking about is the one that they draw on your question paper!

akpos:nawao! so i done fail be that.... funny boy

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FUNNY AKPOS:EXPENSIVE MEAL WITHOUT PAYMENT


Akpos has only N3000 in his pocket and was very hungry.he wanted to eat good food,so he went to one high classic hotel in lagos and made an order for the most expensive meals and wine.

after the meal,the drinks and enjoyment,his bill was N5000 but he told the waiter that he have only N3000 with him and the waiter called the manager.

later on,they handed akpos to the police officer.on the way to station,Akpos gave the police officer N1000 And The Officer Release Him Immediately.

Akpos now have extra N2000 with him after he had eaten expensive meal without paying.

funny Akpos!

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