Friday, January 1, 2010

Want some Trivia?

Let us call this "the Did you know potion of my blog" hahahah. O.k, i know that some of you already know these things but still im sharing for the benefit of the doubt. (was that ryt?)


DID YOU KNOW THAT...


  • the smallest spider is the Samoan Moss Spider? it grows as big as the period at the end of this sentence.

  • on the average, 100 people die because of choking ballpoint pens every year?

  • stress disrupts the natural rhythm of the body's nervous system during various stages of sleep? the link between daytime stress and restless sleep is well-established. but scientists are still investing the exact ways. stresses sleepers are wake more often while thy're sleeping and have a fewer episodes of deep sleep.

  • the average person will drink 16,000 gallons of water in his or her lifetime?
  • if you slowly pour a handful of salt into a totally full glass of water, it will not overflow?. in fact the water level will go down.

  • Joseph Priestly was the one who discovered the eraser? in 1770, this English scientist was messing with a gum from a tree when he found out that it can actually remove pencil marks. he called it "rubber"
  • the largest blood donation yielded 12, 002 units of blood in just twelve hours? (a unit =450 ml) this equivalent to 67 bathtubs of blood!

  • our brains are still smarter than computers? today's supercomputers can store up to one trillion bits of information while our brain can store up to 1000 trillion bits of information?





amazed? well, stay posted for the next post of this "DID YOU KNOW" portion of my blog!

see yah!








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