Really Interesting Chuck Norris Facts

Here are some Interesting Chuck Norris Facts:

• If you rate this 5 roundhouse kicks, then Chuck Norris WILL roundhouse kick Justin Bieber’s ass.
• Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that’s why there are no signs of life.
• Some magicans can walk on water, Chuck Norris can swim through land.
• Ghosts sit around the campfire and tell Chuck Norris stories.
• Chuck Norris and Superman once fought each other on a bet. The loser had to start wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants.
• Chuck Norris can cut through a hot knife with butter
• Chuck Norris once urinated in a semi truck’s gas tank as a joke….that truck is now known as Optimus Prime.
• Chuck Norris doesn’t flush the toilet, he scares the sh*t out of it
• Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience
• Chuck Norris counted to infinity – twice.
• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
• Chuck Norris won American Idol using only sign language
• Once the cop pulled over Chuck Norris….the cop was lucky to leave with a warning.
• Chuck Norris can build a house from the roof down
• When Alexander Bell invented the telephone he had 3 missed calls from Chuck Norris
• Fear of spiders is aracnaphobia, fear of tight spaces is chlaustraphobia, fear of Chuck Norris is called Logic
• Chuck Norris doesn’t call the wrong number. You answer the wrong phone.
• There used to be a street named after Chuck Norris, but it was changed because nobody crosses Chuck Norris and lives.
• Chuck Norris has a grizzly bear carpet in his room. The bear isn’t dead it is just afriad to move.
• Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn’t built up the courage to tell him yet.

Really Interesting Food Facts

Here are some Interesting Food Facts:

• No one really knows when donuts were invented or who invented them.
• Apples, potatoes, and onions all taste the same when eaten with your nose plugged.
• When an egg floats in water, it is “off” and should not be eaten.
• The consumption of natural vanilla causes the body to release catecholamines (including adrenalin) – for this reason it is considered to be mildly addictive.
• Banana trees are not actually trees – they are giant herbs.
• Eating lemons make you live longer.
• Eating one meal of fish a week reduces your chances of getting a heart attack by 50%.
• The first meal on the moon was roast turkey, eaten by Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
• A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.
• Coffee is the world’s most recognizable smell.
• Carrots have zero fat content.
• When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberrie
• Ketchup was originally a fish sauce originating in the orient
• 7-Up – invented in 1920 contained Lithium – the drug commonly prescribed now to sufferers of bi-polar disorder.
• In Tibet, a common drink is butter tea – it is made from yak butter, salt, and tea.
• Coconut water can be used in an emergency as a substitute for blood plasma.
• Orange Juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol.
• Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C.
• Nutritious food costs 10 times as much as junk food.
• Grocers don’t have to tell you where your salad comes from.
• Chicken today contains 266 percent more fat than it did 40 years ago.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
• Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

Really Interesting Sport Facts

Here are some Interesting Sport Facts

• Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.
• The first World Series was played between Pittsburgh and Boston in 1903 and was a nine-game series. Boston won the series 5-3.
• About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.
• The first puck ever used in a hovkey game was a frozen piece of cow crap.
• The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles, which is more than any other team.
• Fishing is the biggest participant sport in the world.
• It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
• Shaquille O’Neal wears size 22 shoes. He puts on a brand new pair before every game.
• Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. didn’t miss a game in 16 years. He played in 2,632 consecutive games from April 30, 1982 to Sept. 19, 1998.
• Before 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher
• More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.
• Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.
• The Boston Celtics have won the most NBA championships (17), including seven straight from 1960 to 1966.
• Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
• Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
• Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
• A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as 9-0.
• Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
• The record for the most major league baseball career innings is held by Cy Young, with 7,356 innings.
• Archery is the national sport in Bhutan,a Buddhist country in Asia.
• The fastest serve in a game of tennis was in 1963 by Michael Sangster. It was clocked at 154 mile per hour.
• South Korea is the birthplace of taekwondo, an olympic sport since 2000.
• Before the turn of the century, prize fighters fought bare fisted. Matches sometimes lasted more than one hundred rounds and were counted by knock outs.
• The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America’s Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.
• Pitcher Nolan Ryan played 27 seasons in major league baseball and struck out more batters in his career than any other pitcher
• To wear a “visor” on your helmet in the NFL, you have to have a doctors note. Almost all the visors in the NFL are prescription.
• If a horse wins a race “hands down” it means the jockey never raised his whip during the race.
• Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.

Sweet Interesting Facts

And some Sweet Interesting Facts

• Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
• Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
• On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
• Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
• 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.
• A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
• 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.
• Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat.
• According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
• The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
• Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
• Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
• Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
• 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.
• Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

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• The eyes of a donkey are positioned so that it can see all four feet at all times.
• Worcestershire sauce in essentially an Anchovy Ketchup.
• Rhode Island is the only state which the hammer throw is a legal high school sport.
• The average lifespan of an eyelash is five months.
• A spider has transparent blood.
• Every acre of American crops harvested contains 100 pounds of insects.
• Prince Charles is an avid collecter of toilet seats.
• The most common street name in the U. S. is Second Street.
• Tehran is the most expensive city on earth.
• The sweat drops drawn in cartoon comic strips are called pleuts.
• Babies are most likely to be born on Tuesdays.
• The HyperMart outside of Garland Texas has 58 check-outs.
• The Minneapolis phone book has 21 pages of Andersons.
• Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
• The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1 . 8 miles away.
• The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
• The word “dexter” whose meaning refers to the right hand is typed with only the left hand.
• To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic. ”
• The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat, ” which means “the king is dead. ”
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
• Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• Giraffes have no vocal cords.
• The pupils of a goat’s eyes are square.
• Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive.
• A standard slinky measures 87 feet when stretched out.
• The highest per capita Jell-O comsumption in the US is Des Moines.
• If a rooster can’t fully extend its neck, it can’t crow.
• There were always 56 curls in Shirley Temple’s hair.

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