你可能不知道的23個有趣生活真相
1 Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
男人被閃電擊中的概率比女人高5倍。
2 Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
每年有超過2500名左撇子在使用爲右撇子設計的產品時死亡。
3 Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
每次你舔郵票的背面時,你就吃下了1/10個卡路里。
4 Most lipstick contains fish scales.
絕大部分的脣膏裏都含有魚鱗成分。
5 A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h..
人打噴嚏時,嘴裏的氣流速度超過每小時100英里。
6 More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
用藍色牙刷的人比用紅色的人多。
7 The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E", and "Q" is the least used.
在英語字母表中,“E”是用得最多的字母,“Q”則是被用得最少的。
8 Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
在美國,每45秒就有一所房子着火。
9 One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
每4個美國人中,就有一個人上過電視。
10 One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
人體內的骨頭有1/4集中在雙腳上。
11 Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
人的牙齒幾乎和石頭一樣硬。
12 The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
世界上最早有條形碼標記的商品是箭牌香口膠。
13 No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
任何一張乾燥的方型紙片都不能被對摺超過7次以上。
14 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
古代埃及人的枕頭是石頭做成的。
15 The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
一個普通人每年要做1460個夢。
16 A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off--it dies from starvation.
蟑螂在被砍頭之後還能活幾個星期,最後死也是餓死。
17 Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
貓狗和人一樣也有左、右撇子之分。
大象是唯一一種不會跳的哺乳類動物。
19 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
海豚睡覺睜一眼閉一眼。
20 The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
驢子眼睛的位置能讓它隨時看到自己的四條腿。
21 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
雞的最長飛行紀錄是13秒。
22 Cat urine glows under a black-light.
貓尿能在黑光燈下發光。
23 Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
每年有超過一萬隻鳥因爲撞到窗戶上死亡。