Sixty Amazing Facts!
- More than half the bones in the human body are in the hands and feet
- The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
- We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile
- No president of the United States was an only child.
- Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
- Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
- Most lipstick is partially made of fish scales
- A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream.
- The human brain is 80% water.
- Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
- Singapore has only one train station.
- Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
- Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
- A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
- The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
- In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
- People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper
- In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- Food will get to your stomach even if you're standing on your head
- The longest dream recorded was 3hr. 8min. long
- On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
- Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
- The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year.
- Messages travel along the nerves as electrical impulses. They travel at speeds up to 248 mile per hour
- Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- Everyone is colorblind at birth
- Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
- Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon
- A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
- On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs
- Heart Attacks Are More Likely To Happen On Monday
- The largest feet: size 29.5
- 95% of our skin is covered with hair.
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