- The closer one gets to traveling at the speed of light, the slower time goes. The astronauts who traveled to the Moon returned 0.67 seconds younger than they would have been had they remained on Earth.
- Nowhere in the Constitution does the words “separation of powers” appear. The concept is written into the first three articles of the Constitution and is merely implied.
- Each person sheds approximately 40 pounds of skin in his or her lifetime.
- A teaspoon of matter from a neutron star would weigh around 100 million tons.
- The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
- Each domestic cow emits about 105 pounds of methane a year.
- Volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon, Io, eject material at speeds up to 2,000 mph.
- It is rumored that every single president in American history is related to Charlemagne.
- A cockroach can live for nine days without its head.
- One third of all adults experience difficulty distinguishing left from right.
- Because of thermal expansion, the Eiffel Tower is 15 centimeters tall in the summer.
- Women on the pill are 30% more likely to suffer from gum disease.
- The silkworm moth has 11 brains.
- Every NASA mission since John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth has encountered UFOs.
- There are more than 1,000 chemicals in every cup of coffee.
- When a pickle is plugged into an electric current, it turns yellow and gives off a horrendous smell.
- A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground.
- Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
- One person in every 2 billion lives to be 116 or older.
- A fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
- Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
- The brain of President John F. Kennedy was sent to the National Archives shortly after the official investigation into his assassination concluded. Shortly thereafter it disappeared, and is still missing to this very day.
- According to one source, about 66% of magazines found thrown along US roadsides are pornographic.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
- When Coca-Cola was first sold in China, they used characters that would sound like “Coca-Cola” when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was “Bite the wax tadpole.” It did not sell well.
- The average American will eat a half-ton of cheese in his or her lifetime.
- Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to 1.
- A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
- Most men have erections every 1-1½ hour during sleep.
- The “Number of the Beast,” 666, has little to with Satan. It is the numerical equivalent to the word “Nero” – as in the Roman Emperor, Nero. To early Christians, because of his persecution of the Christians, Nero was the “Antichrist.” However, it would’ve meant a swift and humiliating death to call him that. Therefore, they had to disguise it.
- The Book of Revelation, in fact, is nothing more than a Christian damnation of the Roman Empire.
- Hindu scriptures state that the Earth is flat and rests on the back of elephants.
- Contrary to popular opinion, the belief that the Earth is round is not universally accepted. An organization known as The Flat Earth Society defends the belief that the Earth is flat.
- The moon recedes from the Earth by about one inch per year.
- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity allows for time travel – the only limits being you can only travel backwards in time and not over great distances. However, it is theoretically possible to travel a second, perhaps two seconds, back in time.
- Every year the rich and famous of the world (actors, actresses, politicians, athletes, etc.) gather at a retreat in California called Bohemian Grove, where they symbolically sacrifice children to Moloch, a god in the form of an owl.
