1. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
2. 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.
3. It is physically
impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
4. It is impossible to
lick your elbow, Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
5. More than 50% of the
people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
6. Rats and horses can't
vomit.
7. If you sneeze too
hard, you can fracture a rib.
8. A crocodile can't
stick it's tongue out.
9. If you try to
suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
10. If you keep your eyes
open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
11. Rats multiply so
quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
12. Wearing headphones
for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
13. The cigarette lighter
was invented before the match.
14. Thirty-five percent
of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
15. Most lipstick
contains fish scales.
16. Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.
17. A crocodile can't
move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can
digest a steel nail.
18. Money notes are not
made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes
were made out of wood for a brief period.
19. Tea is said to have
been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves
accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in
1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
20. The system of
democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing
governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
21. A person can live
without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
22. According to a study
by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations
ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number
of people who are overweight.
23. Camels are called
"ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of
their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian
camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished
camel will not have a hump.
24. In the Durango
desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of
Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say
fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
25. Ethernet is a
registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
26. Bill Gates' first
business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the
number of cars passing a given point on a road.
27. Outside the USA,
Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
28. Every year about 98%
of atoms in your body are replaced.
29. Hot water is heavier
than cold.
30. If you went out into
space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
31. Sound travels 15
times faster through steel than through the air.
32. Only one satellite
has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus
in 1993.
33. Ostriches are often
not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar
like lions.
34. Sloths take two weeks
to digest their food.
35. Guinea pigs and
rabbits can't sweat.
36. According to the Wall
Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five
million roosters used for exactly that.
37. The porpoise is
second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
38. Young beavers stay
with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on
their own.
39. On average, dogs have
better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
40. The lifespan of a
squirrel is about nine years.
41. North American
oysters do not make pearls of any value.
42. Human birth control
pills work on gorillas.
43. Gorillas sleep as
much as fourteen hours per day.
44. There are more than
fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
45. Jellyfish like salt
water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more
fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
46. The female lion does
ninety percent of the hunting.
47. A group of twelve or
more cows is called a flink.
48. Cats sleep up to
eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall
asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment
is still safe.
49. You can tell the sex
of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
50. Your stomach produces
a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
51. On average, 12
newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
52. Upper and lower case
letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original
print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored
in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
53. There are no clocks
in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
54. There are no words in
the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
55. A tiny amount of
liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
56. Chewing gum while
peeling onions will keep you from crying!
57. Guinness Book of
Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public
Libraries.
58. The word
"queue" is the only word in the English language that is still
pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
59. "Almost" is
the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical
order.
60. "Rhythm" is
the longest English word without a vowel.
61. In 1386, a pig in
France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
62. Human thigh bones are
stronger than concrete.
63. You can’t kill
yourself by holding your breath
64. There is a city
called Rome on every continent.
65. It’s against the law
to have a pet dog in Iceland.
66. Your heart beats over
100,000 times a day.
67. Right handed people
live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
68. Your ribs move about
5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
69. The elephant is the
only mammal that can’t jump!
70. One quarter of the
bones in your body, are in your feet!
71. Finger nails grow
nearly 4 times faster than toe nails!
72. The present
population of 7 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 20
billion by 2080.
73. Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.
74. Adolf Hitler was a
vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
75. Honey is the only
food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has
been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
76. Coca-Cola would be
green if colouring weren’t added to it.
77. On average a
hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
78. More people are
killed each year from bees than from snakes.
79. The average lead
pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English
words.
80. More people are
allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
81. Camels have three
eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
82. The placement of a
donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
83. The six official
languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian
and Spanish.
84. It’s against the law
to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
85. You’re born with 300
bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
86. Some worms will eat
themselves if they can’t find any food!
87. Dolphins sleep with
one eye open!
88. It is impossible to
sneeze with your eyes open
89. The worlds oldest
piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
90. The longest recorded
flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
91. Slugs have 4 noses.
92. Owls are the only
birds who can see the colour blue.
93. A man named Charles
Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
94. A giraffe can clean
its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
95. The average person
laughs 10 times a day!
96. An ostrich’s eye is
bigger than its brain
97. If you yelled for 8
years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat
one cup of coffee.
98. If you farted
consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the
energy of an atomic bomb.
99. The human heart!
creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
100.A pig's orgasm lasts
30 minutes.
101.A cockroach will live
for weeks without its head before it starves to death
102.Banging your head
against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
103.The flea can jump 350
times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football
field.
104.The catfish has over
27,000 taste buds.
105.Butterflies taste
with their feet.
106.The strongest muscle
in the body is the tongue.
107.A cat's urine glows
under a black light.
108.Starfish have no
brains.
109.Polar bears are
left-handed.
110.Humans and dolphins are the only
species that have sex for pleasure.
111.In France, it is legal to marry a dead person
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