Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.
1. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
32.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
33.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
34.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
35.There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
36.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
37.Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
38.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
39.It is impossible to lick your elbow.
40.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
41.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
42.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
43.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
44.Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
45.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
46.If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
47.What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
48.Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
49.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
50.A snail can sleep for three years.
51.All polar bears are left handed.
52.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
53.Butterflies taste with their feet.
54.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
55.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
56.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
57.Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
58.Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
59.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
60.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
61.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
62.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
63.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
64.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
65.Most lipstick contains fish scales.
66.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
67.And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
68. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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