15 Coolest Facts

A friend sent me an email recently titled "50 Cool Facts" and they were actually very very cool. I picked 15 of the coolest ones and decided to list them here. You will have a few Eureka! moments after reading these =).

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (I always suspected I was one. I am NOTHING like my parents)

Most lipstick contains fish scales. (I wonder how many vegans will want to comment on this)

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (Why don't dentists tell you things like these instead of doing painful things to you?)

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. (Shame Shame)

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. (SHAME!! SHAME!!!)

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. (&*^#%$#*&#)

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head. (I always hated those &*$@ creatures dead or alive)

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

Coca-Cola can be used as car oil. (Imagine how poisonous it must be!)

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.