Some Interesting Facts
Here are some interesting, but true facts that you may or may not have known.
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
* Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
* A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
* A boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first
flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
* There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
* One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
* The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English
language;192
* Slugs have four noses
* Sharks can live up to 100 years
* Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
* Kangaroos can't walk backwards
* About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday
* The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in
Montana in 1887
* The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually
a tiny sonic boom.
* Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year
presidency
* Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
* There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
* It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in
it to begin with.
* The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students
in 2002
* Octopus have three hearts
* If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
* The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to
change.
* 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old
* The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
* Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
* Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The
survivor is born.
* Most cats are left pawed
* 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
* A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
* You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
* Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
* An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
* Bone is five times stronger than steel.
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