Friday, November 14, 2008

Snapple Facts

Today i went out to lunch with Heather, and we both had Snapple Iced Tea with our meal. For those of you who may not know, on the bottom of every Snapple cap is a random fact. My fact for the day was: shrimp can only swim backwards. Fascinating huh :) well i think so. So i decided to learn more so i checked the Snapple website. Here are some more facts i learned today!

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas
Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10-1
Children grow faster in the spring
Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work
On average, a person will spend up to two weeks kissing in their lifetime
Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music
Giraffe’s have no vocal chords
An average woman consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime
A sneeze travels out your nose at 100mph
The tongue is the fastest healing part of your body
No word in the English dictionary rhymes with month
The average person spends two weeks of its life waiting for the traffic light to change
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will turn white
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times
Oysters can change genders back and forth
Fish can drown
You would have to play ping pong for 12 hours to lose 1 pound
Colors like red, orange and yellow make you hungry
A polar bears fur is transparent, not white
You can tell what day a loaf of bread was baked by looking at the color of it’s twist tag
To keep an ice cream cone from dripping, put a mini marshmallow in the bottom of the cone
It is against the law to put pretzels in a bag in Philadelphia
When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less
A goldfish’s attention span is 3 seconds
Kermit the Frog is left handed

hope you have all learned something new today! How about you...do you know any random facts you would like to share?

7 comments:

Rachel said...

the human head weighs eight pounds

Rachel said...

ADT spells Home Security System.

Amy said...

Are you that hard up for things to blog about? And what is Snapples facination with termites?

Anonymous said...

What I'm going to take away from this is: If you did all of your kissing while you were waiting for traffic lights to change you would end up with 2 weeks of pure free time in the long run.

The Barretts said...

Jamin & I figure that we will kiss for about 9 weeks in our life times....we did the math.

I guess we're above average. :)

Unknown said...

I sneezed last night, and the first thing I thought of was: germs just shot out of my nose/mouth at 100mph

Bethany said...

anyone up for a couple days worth of playing ping pong? i have a couple pounds i wouldn't mind losing.