Trivia

I found a website called Wonderful Info and it had some interesting trivia. Thought I'd share my favorites:
- Mosquito repellants don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
-it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
-A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
-Yo-yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines
-When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
-The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
-the average four year old asks over 400 questions a day
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
-chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
-When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
-A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
-Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
-Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
-China has more English speakers than the United States.
-Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
-According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
-Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
- 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.
-All polar bears are left handed.
-A snail can sleep for three years.
-In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
-Most lipstick contains fish scales.