Everyone knows that "internet facts" are not always factual.....don't we?
Here's an example...: "The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field."
Even assuming the average human is 5 feet tall (a bit on the short side I would guess) and jumped 350 times their body length....that's 1,750 feet. A football field is 360 feet long, from end line to end line.
Or taking this to mean 350 times what the average human can jump.....Even using a human jump of 3 feet means a total distance of 1,050 feet, or almost 3 football fields.
I'm not being critical of anyone trying to have a little fun.....just don't believe everything you read on the internet!
Yes.. a flea can jump about 1 foot or 12 inches. which means just about 350 times their legth... which makes it a FACT!
DYK
-More than 20,000 words in the English language come from French.
-The best beaches for surfing face west.
-Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside-down.
-The word ‘and’ appears 46,277 times in the bible.
-The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
-IBM™ started out as a typewriter manufacturer.
-The core of the sun is made of plasma, and is 15 million degrees C.
-The mother of Mike Nesmith, a member of the rock group ‘The Monkeys’ invented liquid paper.
-Nervous people like crunchy food
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-The first word spoken on the moon was ‘Okay’.
-The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location that sells hot dogs.
-Tucson, Arizona and Fresno, California are the only city in the world to have more than one Costco™
-Dry fish food make goldfish constipated.
-4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
-In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Copper is a brown-red color, correct? This is scientific evidence to back up blonde jokes!
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
- Bizarre Law NEW HAMPSHIRE On Sundays citizens may not relieve themselves while looking up
-California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.
-If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
-A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
DYK that today December 12 that the golf tee was invented and patented. On Dec. 12, 1899 a Dentist by the name of Dr. George Grant invented and patented the golf tee, Dr. Grant received patent number 638,920 for his invention. The first commercially produced tee was patented in 1922 also by a Dentist Dr. William Lowell.
Highlighting text is the best. Only the coolest people can do this.
Let's not do this. I've done this on another forum, and started a whole trend that hasn't stopped yet. It's gotten really annoying.
Ask my little sister about the carrot thing. When she found out she was going to have to get glasses when she was 10, she at so many carrots, she did start turning orange. It started first around her mouth. My mom had to get rid of the carrots in the house because my sister really thought that if she ate enough carrots her eyes would get better and she wouldn't have to wear her new glasses.