Some great facts..
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
A cockroach can live nice days without its head before it starves to death.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
Cockroches break wind every 15 minutes.
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
203 million dollars is spend on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were misspelled.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year.
A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.
A Canadian tatoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
A giraffe can clean its ears with it 21-inch tongue.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
A pig is the only animal that can get sunburned.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
All polar bears are left-handed.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
An average person laughs about 5 times a day.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.
Ants don't sleep.
Astronauts become between two and three inches taller when in space. |