Fun Facts

[Angeleyes]

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a
substitute for blood
plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than
seven (7) times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching
television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty
(50) years of age
or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's
gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a
mustache.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you
up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead
skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung
cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
I
t is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
(And no one knows
why this has been tested...)

[crzyjournalist03]

Originally posted by Angeleyes


No piece of paper can be folded in half more than
seven (7) times.


Mythbusters did it!!! It just has to be really, really big!

[Angeleyes]

lol

[smustangs]

Originally posted by crzyjournalist03
Mythbusters did it!!! It just has to be really, really big!

i have seen that one too

[crzyjournalist03]

Apparently donkey lovers have a real issue with the third one lol:



"I saw this statement on the internet that "More People are killed by donkeys that in airline crashes each year. Now my spouse doesn't want me to get a donkey! Is this true? Help!"

NO, this statement has been plagueing us for several years now. It first appeared somewhere as a "factoid", but it, along with several others on that list, is TOTALLY FALSE. (We now hear that the National Geographic channel is using it in a commercial!) Until recently, we had absolutely NO IDEA where they got the so -called fact to base this rumor on. We have now found out that it was spawned due to the numbers of auto accidents caused by loose donkeys in Mexico and the Middle East! We often hear of people being INJURED by their donkeys, but can't yet name one case where someone in the USA was killed by a donkey-and there have certainly been hundreds of people killed each year in plane crashes. You'd think that several hundred people killed by donkeys each year would be publicized better somewhere OTHER than a "factoid sheet". People contact the ADMS for all sorts of reasons, but having searched the archives, we cannot find any notices of members or people killed by a donkey. (In Nov 2005 we found one headline of a man in Egypt being killed by his donkey - he had beaten the animal and it savaged him.) In truth more people are bitten by their family dog! Being killed in an auto collision with a loose donkey is not being killed by a donkey - it's being killed in an auto collision, which happened to involve a donkey. Help us to dispell this awful rumor-mill factoid - it's not true, it's bunk, treat it as such. Please don't let this statement stop you from getting a donkey or any other animal if you wish to own one!
donkey lovers site (http://www.lovelongears.com/faq.html)

[Angeleyes]

Anybody going to Mexico any time soon....Watch out for the donkeys!!! LOL

[crzyjournalist03]

Originally posted by Angeleyes
Anybody going to Mexico any time soon....Watch out for the donkeys!!! LOL

My ma always said it was dangerouss down thur....

[smustangs]

Originally posted by Angeleyes
Anybody going to Mexico any time soon....Watch out for the donkeys!!! LOL

sounds like a good story w/ that one do share

[sinton66]

Originally posted by Angeleyes
Anybody going to Mexico any time soon....Watch out for the donkeys!!! LOL

If you go to Mexico these days, donkeys are the least of your worries.

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by Angeleyes
The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
We're studying this in marketing right now, and Coca-Cola's actually the most valuable "brand" by a long shot. They've been on top for the better part of 30 years, with Microsoft and IBM coming in second and third.


I remember Toyota, Intel, Mickey D's, and Disney were also top ten, but I can't remember Marlboro being up there. Then again, these lists change on a yearly basis, and ten to 15 years ago this may have been true. It also just may have been me becoming senile in my old age.