Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I'm in Philly! Oh wait, no, Greenville, NC!

Hey everyone! Happy Hump Day!

I am somewhere between Philly and Greenville, NC on business. Crazy week.

But we all know about those, don't we? ;)

So, first things first: Have you entered to win a book of your choice? NO!?! Well then go here and make sure you enter!!

And that's really all I have for today.

So I leave you with random facts. Perhaps you'll be hard pressed for a conversation starter and you can use one of these...

From Snapple tops:

1. On average, a human being will spend two weeks kissing in his/her lifetime
2. Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas
3. A snail breathes through its foot
5. Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges
6. Licking a stamp burns ten calories
7. All porcupines float in water
8. The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
9. There are more than 30,000 diets on public record
10. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
11. Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes
12. 11% of the people in the world are left-handed
13. The longest one syllable word is screeched
14. Camel’s milk does not curdle
15. Alaska has the highest percentage of people that walk to work
16. You would weigh less on top of a mountain then at sea level
17. The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses
18. If you keep a goldfish in a darkroom, it will eventually turn white
19. Smelling bananas and or apples can help you lose weight
20. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber
21. A bee has five eyes
22. In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed (Pretty sure this isn't me...I don't make my bed.)
23. You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement
24. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters
25. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day (There are many days I contribute to this statistic.)
26. A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid
27. Cats can hear ultrasound
28. You burn 20 calories per hour chewing gum
29. A goldfish’s attention span is three seconds
30. Frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open
31. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
32. A cat’s lower jaw cannot move sideways
33. No word in the English language rhymes with month
34. The average person spends two weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change (whoa! Let's just blow through them then! Why wait!?! haha)
35. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds
36. Fish cough
37. About 18% of animal owners share their beds with their pet (This is me.)
38. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour
39. There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter
40. Broccoli is the only vegetable that is a flower
41. Alaska has more caribou than people
42. The life span of a taste bud is ten days
43. Pigs can sunburn
44. Fish have eyelids
45. The average person uses 150 gallons of water a day for personal use
46. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the human body
47. The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
48. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
49. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups
50. The average smell weighs 760 nanograms


I hope you all have a great day!

55 comments:

  1. Wow, I love all those facts! Very interesting :)

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    1. I thought they were very cool too. Always good to learn something :)

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  2. Loved them! Now I know why I've put on weight...I switched to sticky stamps!

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    1. Haha. That's it! Now we know how to get back on track ;)

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  3. Excellent facts! I knew about pigs getting sunburned because once, during a freakishly hot summer, I was on a family day out at a farm attraction type place (lol, I haz awesum skillz of deskripshun! :p ) and the keepers were putting suncream on the pigs. I thought it was very weird!

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    1. No way?!?! That is really funny.

      And you totally made me crack up :)

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  4. Love these kind of facts! Can't believe we spend two weeks of our life at traffic lights. I'm going to make sure I'm at least listening to a great song while I do it, then. :)

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    1. I know hey? I like your logic though :) That's why I either listen to my iPod, a CD or flip through stations till I get a good song. Boo commercials! :)

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  5. Snails? lol! These facts are great :)

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  6. haha! I love random facts. Two weeks is definitely not enough kissing. And I'm going to smell more bananas and apples :) Safe travels!

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    1. Hmm... you think two weeks is on the low side? :)

      I love bananas! :)

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  7. Wow! I had no idea smell had weight, or that beavers had superlungs. And, I need to start chewing gum.

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  8. So what I gathered from that is. We spend the same amount of time in our lives kissing as we do waiting for stop lights. And if you mixed a bullfrog,cat, porcupine and fish could have a coughing, floating animal that never slept and could hear ultrasound. Or you could go the spidey way and splice all those into a human and get the same affect. Only a weird human.

    Have a good trip. ;0)

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    1. Oh. My. Gosh! You crack me up girl. I needed this :)

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  9. I better move to the top of the mountain where I would weigh less! But somehow I don't think my bikini would look any better, or be appropriate for subzero temperatures ;).

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    1. Hahahaha. Subzero temperatures. You crack me up too! I don't think it will help my bikini either... :)

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  10. The way I see teenagers kiss, I think 2 weeks cannot be true. More like 1 month totaled with the teenage years (lol).

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    1. Hahaha. All these comments are exactly what I need. Peaches you are hilarious. I totally agree :)

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  11. licking a stamp burns 10 calories!?! Why do people exercise!

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    1. I kind of worry about the whole Seinfeld thing, where she dies after licking too many stamps? We're going to have to find the happy middle ground :)

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  12. "The tongue is the fastest healing part of the human body."

    And it's a good thing it is... my little sister nearly bit her tongue off, and the doctor said they couldn't stitch it back together (being a tongue, and all) but it healed very quickly and left a little flap of skin as a scar in like a week. Crazy.

    By the way... tag! http://rachelvtsira.blogspot.com/2012/03/youre-it.html

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    1. Oh!!! That sounds awful. Oh gosh I have shivers just thinking about it. Your poor sister.

      I'll pop on over for the tag right now :)

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  13. Fun. I knew some of those, but not all . . .

    That was great.

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  14. 30,000 diets? Whoa. Does the poptart diet count? LOL.

    You are always crazzzzzy busy, girl! Do you ever slow down???

    You're too awesome, Kelley ;)

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    1. I know, crazy right? I bet my pizza diet isn't on there...

      Or my chocolate one. :)

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  15. Those were fun! Many of them really surprised me.

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    1. I was cracking up. Glad you liked them! :)

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  16. Hahahahaha this is hilarious. And that's a lot of kissing ;).

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  17. Oh how interesting, I haven't heard of this one. Thanks for sharing it!!

    Thank you so much Kelley for the congrats you left on my blog!

    No shame, remember I was searching for that free warehouse full of them?! haha. I'd love to hear how Emily and Cassie did it though, I'm always up for learning the behind of the scenes of how stuff works. Thanks for all your help Kelley:)

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  18. The 'average' smell? Wonder how much the smell of grass weighs?

    Enjoy your journey.

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    1. Haha. No idea. Probably depends if its newly mowed or not... :)

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  19. Nice random facts. I love that bees have so many eyes!

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  20. I love random facts! I used to collect the tops with the Snapple Facts when I was younger. Why? I have no idea. I just loved them. I might have to try out the goldfish thing. Milton, my goldfish, was black when I got him. Slowly he started getting orange spots and now he's bright orange. I wonder if I can make him turn white. Hmm... Wow I can't wait to go back to work. lol

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    1. Ooo, you'll be like revering his transformation! Sorta... :)

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  21. Two questions:

    1. Do you just keep all your Snapple tops or is there a website with all these facts?

    2. Just how much Snapple do you drink? :)

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    1. Haha. I did't collect these. I found them. :)

      I actually don't drink Snapple...haha

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  22. Good thing the tongue is a quick healer from all that kissing. :)

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  23. These were fun!! I find #25 most disturbing. I'll be sure to watch my pizza intake from now on. *_*

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    1. Oh man, I know. But I LOVE pizza. Just had some actually...

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  24. Lol, great facts! Cool that you're traveling all over:)

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    1. Thanks Mark! Yeah, its pretty neat. Though this trip was mostly airports, meetings and hotels.

      But its different than being at the office, so that's nice. And the meetings went well, which is also nice :)

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  25. Who says drinking sugared beverages is bad for you? Look how much smarter I am, and all because of Snapple! :)

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  26. So glad you saved all those! LOVED reading them :) Sad about the kisses, should be way higher time spent on that. Laughed out loud about your making the bed mileage :) And I have a quote for from one of my favorite movies (The Losers, said by the extremely hot Chris Evans as Jensen) "Did you that cats can make one thousand different sounds and dogs can only make ten? Cats, man. Not to be trusted." I was thinking I should know your doggy's name and I don't so I'm going on a hunt through your blog to figure it out before I have to ask, I know I've seen her on here before :)

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    1. Haha. You are so funny! I LOVE how you know so much about movies :)

      Her name is Sasha :)

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  27. Other people have been gushing about this blogpost and they're right. I love this!

    36. Fish cough

    Blew my mind. But how can anyone tell? Does it move it's mouth different? And what about when it's choking. I think fish can choke.

    18. If you keep a goldfish in a darkroom, it will eventually turn white

    I want a white one! But is it out of fright or poor health? I don't want to harm the goldfish.

    10. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

    Creepy! I didn't want a frog before and definitely not now. Don't care if it's just the bullfrog. Animals communicate.

    Strange enough this snapple top entry has inspired a new novel idea for me. No! I have too many *sobs.* I'm going to be the next V.C. Andrews. Writers will be trying to finish and create new worlds for my works after I'm dead. I'm too great an idea generator. I need some of this talent to go to my writing skills, my cooking skills, blinking...I need a break. Had two more on Thursday. Wrote them down like I'm about to this one.

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