9/19/2008

quirky facts: part 2 by ethan


As we all know, ISB was supposedly built on a cobra field, and the NIST campus used to be the ISB campus, but there’s more!! ISB is the oldest IASAS school in southeast asia. ISB also has a large number of students enrolled in the school, both elementary, and high school. We have an estimated 1800 students from all over the world. Did you know that ISB was the school that a few famous celebrities attended when they were young? In addition to the last quirky facts post we’ve added a new load of interesting facts that will catch your eye and make you wonder how and why. These 25 facts range from humor to actual interesting facts.

DID YOU KNOW?.?.?.?.?.?

1. If you scream for 8 years 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

2. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

3. Right-handed people live for approximately 9 years longer than left-handed people

4. Some lions mate over 50 times per day.

5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

6. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.

7. Most dust particles in your house are made up of dead skin.

8. The first Mr. McDonalds died of an overdose of cholesterol.

9. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

10. People fear spiders more than they do debt.

11. On average 100 people choke to death from ballpoint pens a year.

12. “TYPEWRITER” is the longest word that can be typed in the first row of letters on a keyboard.

13. Thomas Edison, the light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

14. The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in the season of winter.

15. 100% of Lottery Winners gain weight.

16. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

17. You cannot burp in space because there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas.

18. In every continent of the world there is a city called “Rome”.

19. The longest record flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

20. You would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun produces.

21. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

24. There are as many chickens on the planet as there are people.

25. Mel Blanc, the man who voiced Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!!

These quirky facts are very true and very real. Although they may seem very false, in fact, we got them from a trusted source. We got these facts from an agenda from Ethan’s old school which was made from an actual company that put little side facts, the quirky facts, on every page.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

which famous celebrities attended ISB? I think it'd be cool to find out.
-Grace