holding your breath
Some Intresting Amusing Facts
breathing isn't learned retard. Its a reflex programmed into our brain and is actually entirely automatic.
-reply by cameron
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
Notice from jlhaslip:
I've seen this before on other forums. I don't have time to track it down, but will refer you to this page first. The first item of your quote appears to be false, historically, so I doubt this rest of the page is accurate. Warning issued for plagarising.
it true that every fact written here can't be read and verified by the moderators and admin. But I know for sure quit a few things metioned here are facts.
For your information that is wrong, it is possible to lick your elbow and quite a lot of people can. It was on 'Brainiac' once and people sent in video clips of them doing it. The one about typewriter being the longest word using the top of keys is interesting though.
Nice job!! This is a very interesting list of things that I would like to tell people about! If you can give us anymore interesting facts such as the ones that you had posted above, that would be awesome. Once again, great job and I hope to see more quality posts like this one in the near future!
That's a wierd one. How are you supposed to prove it? If it's untrue, you die. But if you try, and your not suicidal, you would have to let go. Unless you pass out because of holding your breath too long. But wouldn't you let go before that? Confusing...
That's a wierd one. How are you supposed to prove it? If it's untrue, you die. But if you try, and your not suicidal, you would have to let go. Unless you pass out because of holding your breath too long. But wouldn't you let go before that? Confusing...
Well, think about it. You'll pass out before too long if your brain is deprived of oxygen. You'll pass out before you die, in this case anyways. Since breathing is an automatic function of your body (ie, you don't constantly have to remember to breath), once you pass out, you'll start breathing again, thus making it impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
Well this isn't true because of North America and South America, unless you just count the "America" part.
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If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
That's not cool. I always hold back a sneeze whenever I am at school or something. I started doing that like 5 years ago. It will come out but I will keep my mouth closed.
Pretty funny facts you found. Pretty good entertainment.
It must have to be a really really hard pressurized suppressed sneeze, because Ive sneezed really hard (specially cause I have allergies) and suppressed it many time but nothing like that has ever happened to me. Now that I know I wont do it anymore. (you know when you do something without knowing nothing ever happens to you, but when you do know the consequences or something suddenly it happens. Like the coyote when he is running in the air and he doesnt fall down until he looks down.
The reason its impossible to kill yourself holding your breath is because it is physically impossible for you to not pull away when you are in a state of panic. You cannot think yourself out of pulling away.
Some facts can be interesting, like the use of names in many languages and cultures. You wouldnt believe how many times that "nguyen" is used in a name in various areas of southern Brisbane (in Australia). Also at the same time the Muhhamed (sp) name is common in some areas of australia and overseas.
This is where we who are bordering on being a wrinkly get confused. When I went to school, there were 5 continents, Antarctica, America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Now suddenly, somebody has decided we were wrong.
How can the number of continents change when there have been no natural occurences causing any changes.
Quick final point, Australia was borderline between continent, or worlds biggest island.
A lot of these fact you found are quite humourous and a lot are about stuff i'd never be aware of. As they say, it's a lot of useless information but quite entertaining. The one about mohammad being the most popular name is probably because every muslim male has it in ther name somewhere due to thier religion. But I will also tell you another fact about it - the name can be spelt in more different ways than any other name. .
Most lipstick contains fish scales - im glad im a man! Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph - if
only they were size of bikes A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime - Super
Cow!! SONY was originally called 'Totsuken' - this is just plain wierd The venom of the
king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people - i believe it but i dont want
to try it A small airplane can fly backwards - hmmm In most advertisements, the time displayed on
a watch or clock is usually 10:10 - hmmm Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards. -....
Did you know?... Offered a new pen to try, 97% of people will write their own name. The name
'Wendy' was made up for the book PeterPan. Soda water does not contain soda. The girls of
the Tiwi tribe in the south Pacific are married at birth! Given sufficent amounts of chocolate,
pigs can master video game skills. Chewing gum while peeling onions will help you from crying.
Coca-cola was orignally green. Cows can be identified by nose prints. Bananas are 70% water. It
would take about 2million hydrogen atoms to cover the full stop at the end of this senten....
Okay guys, I'm going to be posting random interesting facts, so here's number 1. (I'll
post them in seperate topics, so there will be one topic to talk about each fact.) #1 -- QUOTE
In the 1800's anyone in England who unsuccessfully attempted suicide faced the death penalty.
Okay guys, I'm going to be posting random interesting facts, so here's number 2. (I'll
post them in seperate topics, so there will be one topic to talk about each fact.) #2 -- QUOTE
The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Indepedence was replaced wi....
