Here's some amazing facts that I know and I want to share it just for you...Some facts are truly amazing and hard to believe but all facts presented here are TRUE...ü
* Artificial spiders and webs often decorate Ukranian Christmas trees. They are believed to bring good luck!
* More diamonds are purchased at Christmas time than at any other holiday or occasion during the year.
* The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
* The biggest selling Christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas".
* Christmas was once celebrated at many different times during the year until Pope Julius I decided to celebrate it on December 25 only.
* The first Christmas card was created in England on December 9, 1842.
* There are 364 gifts mentioned in the song "Twelve Days of Christmas".
* The real Santa, St. Nicholas, was bishop of the town of Myra in Turkey during the early 4th century.
* Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.
* The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
* Honeybees, turtles and termites are all deaf.
* Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
* Ocean water isn't blue or green or any color for that matter - it's clear. Oceans look blue or green because they reflect the sky above or the vegetation below.
* Cockroaches FARTS every 15 minutes. Eeeewwww...
* A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
* The white part of your fingernail called a lunula.
* Birds prefer to pollinate red flowers.
* Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.
* Tooth enamel is the hardest substance manufactured by the human body.
* In Sweden, there's a town called "A" and in France there's a village called "Y".
* Bowling ball weighs about the same as a six-month baby.
* Elephants are pregnant for almost 2 years, while hamsters are only pregnant for 15 days!
* Koalas sleep for 22 hours!
* Peanuts are used to make dynamite.
* Shark's skin is as rough as a sandpaper.
* An astronaut in outer space sees the sun rise and set 15 times a day.
* Lightning strikes the Earth 8 million times every day.
* An ostrich's brain is so small that its eyes are larger!
* Honey doesn't spoil. Honeys found in the tomb of Pharaohs in Egypt found to be edible.
* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* The original name for butterfly is flutterby.
* Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
* Ducks will only lay eggs early in the moring.
* "Chinese" fortune cookies were actually invented in America in 1918.
* Sharks never get sick. As far as it's known, they are immune to every disease including cancer.
* Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb was actually afraid of the dark!
* Your thumbnail grows the fastest, and your middle nail grows the slowest.
* A dot over the letter "i" is called a TITTLE.
* Pigs easily get sunburned than humans.
* The original name of Pepsi Cola was Brad's Drink.
* rabbits CANNOT vomit!
* There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver or purple.
* Scooby-Doo's breed is not a German Shepherd, its actually a Great Dane.
* Blue-eyed people see better.
* The smallest bone in the human body is the ear!
* The Great Wall of China is 2,400 kilometers long and is the only human-made structure that can be seen from outer space.
* Cinderella's slipper were originally made from FUR - not GLASS! The story was changed by a translator in the 1600's.
* Ants NEVER sleep.
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