The Odd Spot

This is a list of facts that i have found, and will continue to find for quite some time... i'm not going to reveal my scource because it gives away just a little more info than i would like, but if you know where i found them then you know two more things about me!!!!
I didn't number them, so when there are two with the same number - Don't blame me!

#10. Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
#12. Ice cream was invented in China in about 2000 B.C.
#14. A fingernail or toe nail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
#21. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920's, was called crisphead.
#22. It takes on average 90 squirts from a cow's udder to make a litre of milk.
#24. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
#24. Mosquitoes have teeth.
#25. Most people fear public speaking more than death.
#26. The total length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over 30 metres.
#28. No two spider webs are the same.
#30. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
#33. Travelling by air is the safest means of transport.
#36. It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 muscles to frown.
#38. About 10% of the worlds population are left handed.
#38. On average, 13 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
#38 Up until the age of six or seven months children can breathe and swallow at the same time.
#48. The Neanderthal Man's brain was bigger than Modern Man's.
#55. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of up to 100kph.
#56. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and then sinking to the bottom.
#57. A snail can sleep for three years.
#58. During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.
#59. A full moon always rises at sunset.
#63. Cold water weighs less then hot.
#66. the hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
#66. 40 people are sent to hosptial for dog bites every minute.
#69. Only female ducks can quack.
#71. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the egyptians in 2000 BC.
#74. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
#75. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
#76. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
#76. Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in Germany.
#81. The human eye sees everything upside down, but the brain turns everything right side up.
#82. In ancient egypt, preists plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
#83. Perspiration is odourless. Bacteria on the skin creates the odour.
#84. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
#86. Xerophargy refers to a diet of bread and water.
#89. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
#92. Apples, not caffeine are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
#92. During a 24 hour period, the average human will breath 23, 040 times, exercise 7 million brain cells and speak 4,800 words.
#93. Like fingerprints, everyones tongue prints are different.
#94. Chocolate stimulates the release of endorphins in the body. Endorphins enhance one's mood and block pain.
#96. Althaiphobia is a fear of marshmallows.
#97. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 metres in very quiet conditions.
#97. The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.
#102. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windsheild wipers were all invented by women.
#105. The reason honey is so easy to digest is because it's already been digested by a bee.
#107. The honeybee kills more people worldwide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
#110. One quater of the bones in your body are in your feet.
#116. Sheep will not drink running water.
#117. When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as "the tragic lamppost".
#118. The average human body makes enough carbon for 900 pencils.
#119. A zebra is white with black stripes not black with white stripes.
#120. Our eyes are always the same from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
#121. No words in the english language rhyme with month, orange, silver or purple.
#121. A woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear when she becomes pregnant.
#122. A cheetah's stride is seven to eight metres in length. It completes four strides per second.
#124. The mechanical shark in "Jaws" was nicknamed bruce.
#125. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
#128. Everytime you lick a stamp, you're consuming 0.1 of a calorie.
#129. The ant can can lift 50 times it's own weight and can pull over 30 times it's own weight.
#132. A typical bed is usually home to over six billion dust mites.
#133. On average, people fear spiders more than death.
#137. The average human body contains enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.
#137. About 10kg of milk is needed to make 1kg of natural cheese.
#139. It is estimated that at any one time 0.7% of the worlds population is drunk.
#142. Each year insects eat one third of the worlds food crop.
#148. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 bones in our boddies.
#148. A vamp is the upper top front of a shoe.
#150. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
#152. The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drown the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
#153. The average human body contains enough lead to make a 7.62cm nail.
#156. An elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.
#157. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
#159. In elizabethan times carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
#161. 23% of all photocopiers faults are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
#165. If you have ozostomia, you are suffering from halitosis, or bad breath.
#168. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
#179. Teeth are the only parts of a human body that can't repair themselves.
#182. The art of map making is older than the art of writing.
3187. 24 frames per second are projected in most animated films.
#210. The Skeleton of a 70kg body weighs about 13kg.
#211. A boeing 747 plane holds about 216 846 litres of fuel.
#217. The Koala is one of the few animals that does not require water to survive.
#229. Horseracing regulations require no racehorse's name to contain more than 18 letters.
#235. To simply walk you use 200 muscles.
#239. All hurricanes form over water and last for about 10 days.
#246. The top cork producing countries in the world are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
#269. The garfish has green bones.
#275. Hair grows slowest at night.
#289. Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongues.
#292. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, egg whites where a popular form of laundry detergent.
#294. All porcupines float in water.
#307. In ancient times vinegar was the strongest acid known.
#314. Artichokes are flower buds.
#336. Fish have been known to kiss for up to 25 minutes.
#347. Fish can get seasick.
#349. The best way to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
#349. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
#350. Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
#351. Due to its eye placement a donkey can see all of it's hooves at the same time.
#352. If 80% of yourliver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to function.
#353. There is more than 25000km of neon tubing in the signs on the strip in downtown Los Vegas.
#367. A group of foxes is called a skulk.
#368. Figs have the highest dietary fibre content of any common fruit, nut or vegetable.
#374. A skunk can be detected by a human over 1km away.
#375. A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
#376. Rats can swim for a kilometre without resting. They can also tread water for three days straight.

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