Post: *Weird Facts* Part I
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08-24-2010, 11:19 AM
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Alekz
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)I bring you some new facts i dug up while cruisin' the internet...
Hope you'll enjoy reading Part I and please comment cause it took me a hell of a time to make!!:y:
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
- After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
- Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
- Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
- Cat urine glows under a black-light!
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
- Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
- One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
- Porcupines float in water!
- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
- Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
- The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
- The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
- The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
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- The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
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