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facts from all over the world. So sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Did you know...
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
- A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors
so they don't know you're there.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
- A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
- You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
- You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
- The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
- When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
- Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
- Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.
- The average person laughs 13 times a day.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an
"English kiss" in France.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- In Indionisa, citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride
in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
- Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
- It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA
- You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- In Alaska, it is illegal to push a live moose out of a moving airplane.
- There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
- We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
- Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
- It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the
Sun’s surface to the Earth.
- California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people
named Jesus Christ.
- Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.
- Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary
to sustain human life.
- Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
- Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
- Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
every second.
- When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six
feet, normally without being hurt.
- Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
- In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all
the world's nuclear weapons combined!
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made
or received a telephone call
- There are more fatal car accidents in July than any
other month.
- There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are
people in the world.
- The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers
of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a
shock of 400-650 volts.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog.
- You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
- 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian
anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
- 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American
anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
- Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.