1. 04 December 2009 · 02:27 PM · 7,353 notes

    Amazing True Facts

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    • When placed in warm milk, raisins re-plump into grapes.
    • The metal backs of iPods are made from recycled zippers.
    • Every sixteen minutes, someone named Richard dies.
    • Dolphins kill more people annually than sharks and influenza combined.
    • Professionals call the top socket on an electrical outlet the “Martha,” and the bottom socket the “Jasmine.”
    • In the archives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., there are two identical snowflakes preserved in a freezer.
    • Three out of every ten nickels has been in someone’s mouth.
    • If you hold one nostril closed for 72 hours, you will slowly lose the ability to see color. (Your sight will instantly return to normal when you release your nostril.)
    • Wave a magnet at the lower left corner of a vending machine to receive a free soda.
    • The glossy paper from the backs of stickers can be used to soothe sunburn.
    • Whispering instead of talking on cell phones saves significant battery power.
    • If you take the first letter of each word in the Monopoly board game instruction manual, they spell out an X-rated sentence.
    • The original name for the laptop computer was “Hinged Smart Slab.”
    • Winnie the Pooh started out as a non-fiction account of mental illness.
    • The Q in Q-tips stands for “quantum,” as the small bit of cotton on the tip contains more atoms than the entire human body.
    • Revolving doors were first invented as a way to keep horses out of department stores.
    • Peru and the moon weigh the same amount.
    • Human beings and anteaters are the only animals that can snap their fingers.
    • If you soak a baseball hat in coke, and then let it dry on someone’s head, over a 3-hour period the hat will shrink with skull-denting force, causing intense pain and irreparable damage.
    • Clouds cannot travel south southwest.

    :)

    WOO im an electrical plug :D

    some of these are just amazing xD

    i really want to hold my nostril shut now, but i dont think id be able to do it while asleep :(

    those are so cool idek

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