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The average human body contains enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.

No two spider webs are the same.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight and can pull 30 times its own weight.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of 3 months.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine digits or items. This is one reason that telephone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.

Starfish don’t have brains.

Cats have better memories than dogs.

The average human will drink about 72,737 litres of water in a lifetime.

The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia.

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.

The catfish has more than 27,000 taste buds.

The total length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over thirty metres.

A typical bed is usually home to over six billion dust mites.

A zebra is white with black stripes not black with white stripes.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a spider.

A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue.

You can stop a sneeze by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Turtles and honeybees are both deaf.

Sound at the right vibration frequency can bore holes.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Between the ages of 30 and 70, your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5cm.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

A camel can shut it’s nostrils during a desert sandstorm.

Facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body.

A newborn crocodile is three times the size of the egg it hatched from.

It takes a week to make jelly beans.

Milk is heavier than cream.

The US brought Florida from Spain.

Four tablespoons of tomato sauce contains the nutritional equivalent of a medium sized tomato.

Rabbits are born hairless and with closed eyes; hares are born covered with fur and with open eyes.

In ancient Rome, oysters were so highly prized that they sold for their weight in gold.

The cashew nut belongs to the poison ivy family.

The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.

The sound a camel makes is called nuzzling.

Hard-boiled eggs will spin. Uncooked or soft-boiled eggs will not.

24 carat gold is not pure gold. Pure gold is so soft that it can be molded by hand.

The average lifespan of a taste bud is 7 to 10 days.

It takes about 150,000 litres of water to grow and produce a typical dinner for eight people.

Scarlett O’Hara’s real first name was Katie.

A person who is scotophobic has an intense fear of being seen.

If laid out in a straight line, the average adult’s circulatory system would be long enough to circle the Earth 2 1/2 times.

Scientists have found chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression.

Children born in May are, on average, 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month.

Men sweat approximately 40% more than women.

Dendrophobia is the fear of trees.

Gallileo died in 1642- the year of Isaac Newtons birth

The bra was invented and patented by Mary Phelps Jacob.

Laurel was born before Hardy.

Gynophobia is the fear of women.

The harmonica is the worlds best-selling musical instrument.

Androphobia is the fear of men.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

About 10% of the worlds population is left-handed.

The average human body contains enough iron to make a 7.62 cm nail.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Most people fear public speaking more than death.

You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 metres in very quiet conditions. (Unless it’s digital.)

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.

A fingernail or toenail takes 6 months to grow from base to tip.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

The Neanderthal man’s brain was bigger than modern man’s.

40 people are sent to hospital for dog bites every minute.

The average human body contains enough Potassium to fire a toy cannon.

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The average person is a quarter of an inch taller at night.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of up to 100 kph.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windshield wipers were all invented by women.

The left lung is slightly smaller than the right, allowing room for your heart.

Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea.

80% of all rose species in the world come from Asia.

A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500,000 baths.

A mysophobic person has an intense fear of infection.

A building in which silence is enforced, like a library, is referred to as a silentium

Botanically, true berries include the grape, tomato and eggplant, but not raspberries and blackberries.

During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman’s middle finger is reduced.

Seals sleep underwater and surface for air without waking.

Tuna suffocate if they stop swimming.

Plain vanilla is the favourite flavour of ice cream making up 29% of all sales.

Tequila is made from the juice of the Agave.

Nevada and Canberra are varieties of cauliflower.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver or purple.

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 0.1 of a calorie.

Travelling by air is the safest means of transport.

The modern flushing toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.

The human brain is 85% water.

Swans are the only birds with penises

A naked lady is a type of orchid.

The adder is Britain’s only poisonous snake.

The peanuts comic strip was first called Li’l Folks.

Four Weddings and a Funeral was the first British film to break 20 million pounds at the box office.

A ballet enthusiast is called a “ balletomane”.

A Boeing 747 plane holds about 216,846 litres of fuel.

Flamingos live up to 80 years.

A guinea pig can run three hours after being born.

The Pac Man video arcade game featured coloured ghosts named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by sharks.

The average loaf of bread is more than a third water.

Buckingham Palace has 600 rooms.

Elephants and short-tailed shrews get only two hours of sleep each day.

The initials M.G on the famous cars stand for Morris Garage.

Xerophagy refers to a diet of bread and water.

To simply walk you use 200 muscles.

A cheetah’s stride is seven to eight metres in length. It completes four strides per second.

Artichokes are flower buds.

24 frames per second are projected in most animated films.

It takes over 20,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef.

On an average day, an adult spends 77 minutes eating.

A person living to 75 years of age will have slept almost 23 years of their life – or about 220,000 hours.

A “buccula” is the name given to a person’s double chin.

Male monkeys go bald in the same way men do.

The pelican breathes through its mouth. It has no nostrils.

A lobster’s kidneys are in its forehead and its teeth are in its stomach.

The highest rating that can be given to a top quality diamond is D-Flawless.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue prints are different.

The honeybee kills more people worldwide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

Each year insects eat one third of the world’s food crop.

During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times, exercise 7 million brain cells and speak 4,800 words.

The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

Only female ducks can quack.

The bird that lays the biggest egg in relation to its own size is the Kiwi.

The average person spends two years on the phone in his/her lifetime.

August has the highest percentage of births.

Google is a number. (1 followed by 100 zeros.)

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

Every living thing on Earth contains carbon.

Spider silk is a very strong material and its on-weight basis has proven to be stronger than steel.

All porcupines float in water.

In ancient times, vinegar was the strongest acid known.

Perspiration is odourless. Bacteria on the skin creates the odour.

Figs have the highest dietary fibre content of any common fruit, nut or vegetable.

Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can’t repair themselves.

A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

The tongue is the fastest healing part of your body.

Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.

Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.

People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from libraries.

On average, a four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

Every year the moon moves a further 3.82cms from the Earth.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

If you attempted to count the stars in the galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3000 years to count them all.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

Slugs have four noses

Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.

Camel’s milk does not curdle.

There are one million ants to every human in the world.

Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.