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I can't even remember how many times I stumbled upon different facts about different things, that always seemed interesting or funny. This time I found a large collection, on SonnyRadio.com and I decided to post all of them right here, and as time goes by I will new ones.
So here We go, these are the first 101 Facts:

1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors.
3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.
5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the crocodiles and tortoises survived.
6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.
10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
12. Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr. Crumm.
15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
16. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.
19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
21. The longest English words without a vowel in are rhythm and syzygy.
22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876; 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543; 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
23. The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime.
26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.
27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.
28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.
30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
31. The lighter was invented before the match.
32. The average left-handed person lives 7 years LESS than a right-handed person.
33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six phones were sold in the first month.
37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday.
41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
43. On average a business document is copied 19 times.
44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
45. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday." They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
46. All babies are color-blind when they are born.
47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.
49. Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's son was engaged to Mandy Smith's mother. If his son had married Smith's mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.
55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
58. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
60. There is cyanide in apple pips.
61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the whole way around the world!
62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time...it would knock the earth off its axis!
63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.
65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.
66. The symbols + (addition) and – (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.
67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days you’ll have $5,368,708! (or £’s or whatever currency).
68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
69. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.
71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.
72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.
76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the coloring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change.
77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal.
78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a bible, men swore to the truth on their statements while holding their genitals. Hence the word 'testify', from 'testicles'.
79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.
80. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a computer.
81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
83. Babies are born without knee-caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.
85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.
86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
87. An octopus has 3 hearts.
88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.
90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
91. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it.
93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed person because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a right-handed person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the jar up afterwards.
94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun.
95. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.
97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.
98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound).
101. Winston Churchill was born in the ladies room at a dance.

More to come, stay tuned...

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Its been a while since the Mountain Bike riding season ended so in order not to get mad this winter as I did last year, I decided to search for something else to do. It actually started as a curiosity when I first saw a  spinning plastic ball in the hands of my friend Alin but little by little after I started playing with it I began to love it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, one word can simply describe it: POWERBALL. I have to admit I wasn't familiarized with this object till I started spinning the damn thing so for those of you, who still don't know what I'm talking about, this Wikipedia extract might help:

A gyroscopic exercise tool is a device used to exercise the wrist as part of physical therapy or in order to build hand and finger strength. It can also be used as a clever demonstration of some aspects of rotational dynamics. The device consists of a tennis ball-sized plastic or metal shell around a free-spinning mass, which can be started with a short rip string or by a snap of the thumb. Once the gyroscope inside is going fast enough, a person holding the device can accelerate the spinning mass to high revolution rates by moving the wrist in a circular motion.    For more information on how it works or records,  check this out!

 My current record is: 11089 RPM. Did this during my History class  11100 RPM 11506.

 More updates soon, and btw, What is your record? 

Skee - January 25, 2009 Ah man, you really improved this weekend!

venom - January 24, 2009 11937!!!! ha!!

venom - January 24, 2009 new one!!! 11810

venom - January 22, 2009 11388 FINALLY!!!

Cata - January 20, 2009 eu va fac la cs )

second best from the class(greenday) - January 20, 2009 11662

Skee - January 20, 2009 Just improved my Official record to: 11506, the unofficial as I like to called it, is 11556. Did that on Alin's powerball

George - January 19, 2009 Beat that ! )

George - January 19, 2009 12212 - new record

Skee - January 17, 2009 Am reusit azi sa fac 11084 astazi. Practice makes perfect!

greenday - January 16, 2009 10900si cevadin prima zi cand am pus mana pe el.

George - January 16, 2009 11995 ?

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  This time I stumbled into a 'StumbleUpon Addiction Quiz'.

greenday - January 20, 2009 eu am facut 11662

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Hello.
Usually after my evening ride, I come home were I get so bored that I start Stumbling
It seems that tonight I came home too early!

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To start with, what a piece of art!

I finally managed to get this fantastic movie, and trust me, its worth every penny!

The main idea of the film goes like this: 7 of the top mountain bike riders: Darren Berrecloth *, Matt Hunter, Cam McCaul *, Steve Peat, Andrew Shandro, Stewie Smith, Thomas Vanderham presented on four different seasons in 2007: Winter (Shot on: Sheffield, Kamloops, Aptos), Spring (Cassidy, Nicola Valley, Qualicum, North Shore), Summer (Mount Sainte-Anne, Kamloops, Whistler, Mount Washington, Golden "Mount Seven", Nicola Valley), Fall (Whistler). One of my favorite quotes from the movie comes from Cam McCaul, who is comparing himself with birds: "I do feel many connections with birds, both like they fly and they both make music, I like making music and I like flying,... maybe I'll get a big wing tattoo on my forehead one of these days, just to symbolize my love for flying and making music, maybe I won't, its up to me... its my forehead." and also: "There is something about winning, like its always good to be there and have a good time and just hang out with everybody. I did that for a few years, but now that I started winning a little bit, its kinda like when a dog tastes blood, it just wants to kill again, so right now I just want to kill again, and win as many times as I can". ...

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Great NEWS!
I got a new picture of the new DACIA SANDERO!

But, lets get more serious now...

Its summer time so I'm the mood for one of my old passions: Photography.
As a result, I added a couple of old and new photos to my Photo Gallery. There are still lots of old photos that I haven't published yet, so more to come.
Enjoy

Skee - July 31, 2008 The picture is clearly photoshopped, so don't expect it to look like that in reality!

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Hello.

Its been quite a while since I updated something on this website, so I thought its time for something new. Since there is nothing new, I will just waste this place by writing some useless words. ... Ok, I'm done, see ya soon. Probably some new pics in the near future, but if you don't expect anything, you can simply get the fuck outta here!

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