Weird and intresting facts
- A shrimp's heart is in their head.
- Ancient egyptians slept on pillows made of stone
- 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 (or attempted to do so).
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
- Rats and horses can't vomit.
- Jiff is a unit of time equivilant ot one houndreth of a second.
- 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.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain!
- Ancient egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
- There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.
- The glue on the back of Isralei stamps is Kosher
- Cat urine is visible under an ultraviolet light
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than our toenails.
- The average person has 1,460 dreams in a year.
- Each day, Americans eat 7.5 acres of pizza
- A scallop has 35 eyes- all of them blue.
- Americans buy more than two million eggs of Silly Putty every year.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
- There are four forms of spoken Chinese while, ironically enough, there is only one written language.
- The word Slinky in Swedish translates to traespiral.
- The city of London has no roads called road.
- In France people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails a year.
- We call it a French kiss, but in France, they call it an English kiss.
- A starfish has no brain !
- Every time you sniff up snot in your brain you looss 2 braincells!!!!!!!!
- a sneeze travels out of youir mouth faster than 600 miles per hour!
- Cats have two voice boxes, one for purring and one for meowing.
- Every cigarrete you smoke shortens your life by 5 minutes
- Idaho grows 120 billion potatoes a year. Thats 500 for every person in the US
- In a year, a man shaves off an average of 2 pounds of whiskers
- there are 3 times as many cows as people in Montana!!
- There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.
- The glue on the back of Isralei stamps is Kosher
- Cats have 32 muscels in each ear.
- Amercans buy more salsa than ketchup
- Everyone hais a hairy tounge. There very very small and hard to find.
- A small gecko can hold a 75 lb. kid with two of it's feet, it's suction is that powerful.
- A group of frogs is called an army, a group of toads is called a knot.
- Sex can releave arthritis for up to six hours.
- While the average fad lasts six months, demand for Silly Putty hassurpassed forty years.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open
- The Slinky is sold on every continent of the world except Antarctica
- Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
- A stak of $1 bills, a mile high would be worth $14 million dollars.
- You are as likely to die falling out of bed as you are by getting struck by lightning. It's a one in twomillion chance.
- The average person blinks about 25 times perminute, which adds up toabout 13,140,000 blinks per. year.
- The Pony Express only lasted about 18 months, 1860-1861.
- New freckles usually stop appearing at age 19-20.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
- Aquarter has 119 groves in it, a dime hass 118 grooves.
- A quart sized pail holds about 8 million grains of sand.
- Elephants are the only animal with four knees.
- A hippo can open it's mouth wide enough to fit a four foot child.
- Every citicen of Kentucky is required to take a bath at least once a year.
- The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a moustache.
- The only survivor of Custards Last Stand was his hourse, Comanche.
- Bamboo can grow four feet in 24 hours.
- The only thing intense enough to destroy a diamond is heat.
- A bolt of lightning can strike the earth with a force as great as one million volts.
- Lemons contain more sugar then strawberries.
- A gold fish has a memory of three seconds.