Before anything, let’s entertain you with these first.
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For his wife's birthday party, a doctor ordered a cake with this inscription:
"You are not getting older, You are just getting better."
When asked how he wanted it arranged, he said, "Just put 'You are not getting older' at the top, and 'You are just getting better' at the bottom."
It wasn't until the good doctor was ready to serve the cake that he discovered it read:
"YOU ARE NOT GETTING OLDER AT THE TOP, YOU ARE JUST GETTING BETTER AT THE BOTTOM."
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Top ten reasons to tell if you were caught sleeping.
10. They told me at the blood bank that this might happen. 9. This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to. 8. Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You probably got here just in time. 7. I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm! 6. I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance. 5. I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercies to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga? 4. Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem! 3. The coffee machine is broken. 2. Someone must have put the decaf in the wrong pot. 1. Amen.
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Okie. Woke up freaking late with a headache again. =0( Have been listening to music last night till my phone went low batt. Teehee. I have my reasons for plugging in the ear piece and refused to take them off when I go to sleep at night. Especially now. It’s the time of the year that I am afraid of! And when I go to bathe or to the toilet, I just feel that I lost my privacy. =x Don’t you feel so? Fine fine, I am weird! =x
Bad things comes together! My msn is logging off every like 10 to 15 minutes. And my IE is forever not responding! Never mind, I got my trusty FF. I found some really cute interesting facts. So tempted to post them. Okie, I assume your reason reading my blog is because you are bored right? So let me entertain you with these interesting facts! =0 ) Thank me please~ Check out those highlighted in a different colour, very interesting!
Myths One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
Avoid people who talk to themselves. According to Ukrainian legend, that could indicate a dual soul and the second one doesn't die! Also watch out for the seventh son of a seventh son, a person born with a red caul (amniotic membrane covering the head), or a child born with teeth. A vampire can result if a cat or dog walks over a fresh grave, a bat flies over the corpse, or the person has died suddenly as a result of suicide or murder. Unfinished business can also cause a body to rise, as can inadequate burial rites, including a grave that is too shallow.
Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads.
Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it. Of course the $1 bill is unlucky - if it was lucky it would be a $100 bill.
According to legend, if a hare crosses a person's path as he starts out on a journey, the trip will be unlucky and it's best to return home and start again. If a pregnant woman sees a hare, her child may be born with a hare-lip. If a hare runs down the main street of a town, it foretells a fire. Cornish legend says that girls who die of grief after being rejected by a lover turn into white hares and haunt their former beaus.
One superstition says that if a girl leaves her house early on Valentine's Day and the first person she meets is a man, then she will be married within three months.
To prevent evil spirits from entering the bodies of their male children, parents dressed them in blue. Blue was chosen because it's the color of the sky and was therefore associated with heavenly spirits.
Girls weren't dressed in blue, apparently because people didn't think that evil spirits would bother with them. Eventually, however, girls did get their own color: pink. Pink was chosen because of an old English legend which said that girls were born inside of pink roses.
In the 1700's you could purchase insurance against going to hell, in London England.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed. (*now you know where to get down from*)
The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes death.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years. (*sounds..interesting!*)
During the middle ages, it was widely believed that men had one less rib than woman. This is because of the story in the Bible that Eve had been created out of Adam's rib.
Hindu men once believed it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree (his third wife) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again. (*wTh*)
Strange Laws
In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. (*aiyer*)
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt." (*it’s considered INTERESTING FACT on the web okay!*)
In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
In Riverside, California, there is an old law on the city's books which makes it illegal to kiss unless both people wipe their lips with rose water.
In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee. (*COFFEE?! Is it that important?*)
In Hartford Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
Found a box of Tampax Tampons: "Remove used tampon before inserting a new one." (*Like DUH*)
Found on Bat Man The Animated Series Armor Set Halloween costume box: "PARENT: Please exercise caution, mask and chest plate are not protective; cape does not enable wearer to fly." (*LOL*)
Found on the handle of a hammer: "Caution: Do not use this hammer to strike any solid object." (*then use for what?*)
Found on a butane lighter: "Warning: Flame may cause fire." (*abit erm…*)
At the first professional baseball game, the umpire was fined 6 cents for swearing.
During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes punished by being whipped. (*what?!*)
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel. (*Singapore also~*)
In Milan, Italy, there is a law on the books that requires a smile on the face of all citizens at all times. Exemptions include time spent visiting patients in hospitals or attending funerals. Otherwise, the fine is $100 if they are seen in public without a smile on their face. (*my mee mee smiles all the time*)
words The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
Androphobia is a fear of men. (*slight*)
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women. (*I have..slight*)
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
The custom of saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes was first used by ancients when they believed that breath was the essence of life, and when you sneeze a part of you life is escaping. Evil spirits rush into your body and occupy the empty space. By saying "God bless you" the speaker is protecting the sneezer from that spirits. (*I say that at times*)
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
World Records The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days! (*pro*)
On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds! (*I didn’t know!*)
The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America. (*how..ironic*)
Inventors The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.
The Chinese invented eyeglasses. Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs worn by the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before lens grinding became an art in the West.
The first commercial vacuum cleaner was so large it was mounted on a wagon. People threw parties in their homes so guests could watch the new device do its job.
The first VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano.
Food
A black cow is a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. The term dates from the Roaring Twenties, although it also came to be used to describe a root beer float. Another term for a black cow was a mud fizz.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet. (*oooooo*)
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
Only food that does not spoil: honey. (*really?!*)
Chocolate not only does not promote tooth decay, it might prevent it. According to the American Dental Association, milk chocolate contains ingredients, such as calcium and phosphate, that might modify acid production in the mouth that leads to cavities. Some oils in chocolate might also prevent tooth decay. Chocolate does contain sugar, of course, but these are simple sugars that are less harmful than the complex sugars contained in other foods. (*teehee..another reason to eat choco!*)
Most common sports drinks are the equivalent of sugar-sweetened human sweat. That is, they have the same salt concentration as sweat (but are less salty than your blood). An increase of as little as 1% in blood salt will cause you to become thirsty.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Dunkin' Donuts serves about 112,500 doughnuts each day.
Medical
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. (*let’s start laughing! HA HA HA *)
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. (*Me! At times*)
In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot. (* he eat with his foot~*)
Blood is red only in the arteries after it has left the heart and is full of oxygen. Blood is a purplish, blue color in the veins as it returns to the heart, thanks to having picked up carbon dioxide and other wastes from the body's cells. In fact, your blood is red throughout only half your body. When cut, of course, the blood always appears red because it is instantly exposed to oxygen outside the body.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (*REALLY?! Size leh?*)
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
Females have 500 more genes than males, and because of this are protected from things like color blindness and hemophilia.
The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death.
During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged. (*omg?*)
There have been cases of people dying from paper cuts. The paper cut gets infected, and without proper treatment you can die from the infection. (*shiami?!*)
It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears. (*Omg*)
Brain surgery is done with the patient still awake. The brain has no nerves therefore it has no sensation. The person is put to sleep to open the skull but after that the person wakes up to see the operation be completed.
Smoking makes it almost impossible for a male to have a natural erection and it shrinks the penis. It also reduces the mobility of sperm. (*So, stop smoking?*)
Did you know that you can actually die from a broken heart? Studies have shown that people who had experienced great loss or sadness can develop cracks in their heart which could lead to death. (*really heartbroken!*)
You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations.
Sometimes when you belch, a little bit of your stomach acids comes along. This makes for a very disgusting and burning burp.
Urine was once used as a detergent for washing. *faints*
Spontaneous human combustion is the process of the body's temperature becoming heated to the point that the body simply bursts into flame and incinerates. No one knows the actual cause of why this happens. Some blame a chemical reaction within the body, others blame supernatural causes.
I better end this now right? Teehee! I love reading these because it brings my mind away from so many things! =0) Have fun!
Was supposed to go night cycling on wed. Planned by lovely van (*pukes*). But then,.. ..I am too timid now to go out late at night! So, I will seriously start studying today! =0) But since lunch's not home yet, i can't get to study!
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