Interesting
facts!
Interesting
Facts
A crocodile
can't stick its tongue
out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every
day.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain.
Babies are
born without knee caps; they don't appear until the
child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only
have about 10. Cats urine glows under a black
light.
China has more English speakers than the United
States.
Donald Duck comics were
banned in Finland
because he doesn't wear any pants.
Dueling is legal
in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
Elephants are the only animals that can't
jump.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.
Humans and
dolphins are the
only species that have sex for
pleasure.
"I am." is
the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
If Barbie were life-size,
her measurements
would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two
inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a
normal human's neck.
If the population of China walked past you in single
file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
If you yelled for 8
years, 7
months and
6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to
heat one cup of coffee.
In ancient
Egypt,
priests
plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their
eyebrows and eyelashes.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
Leonardo Da Vinci
invented the
scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six
toes.
Michael Jordan
has made more money from Nike annually than all of
the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.
No word in the English language rhymes with
month.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected
intravenously.
On average, people
fear spiders more
than they do death.
One of the
reasons marijuana is
illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's
lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as
competition.
Our eyes are always the
same
size from
birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
longer than left-handed people do.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and
'bump'.
Some lions mate over 50 times
a
day.
Starfish
haven't got brains.
Stewardesses is
the
longest word
typed with only the left hand.
The
ant always falls
over on its right side when
intoxicated.
The
average
human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at
night.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste
buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six
inches for each gallon of diesel that it
burns.
The electric chair was invented by a
dentist.
The
human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out
to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The
most common name in the world is
Mohammed.
The name of all the
continents end
with the
same letter that they start with.
The
name
Wendy was
made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
The
Pentagon in
Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state
of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and
whites.
The
strongest muscle in the body is the
tongue.
The word
racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left.
There
are two
credit
cards for every person in the United
States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
the letters only on one row of the
keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more
likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
You can't kill
yourself by
holding
your
breath.
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