Fun Facts
Interesting reading…..
There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).
Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 “puppy” teeth, then 42 adult teeth.
Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.
If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
A chef’s hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.
A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter “A”.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
An aspirin tablet is forty times more effective if taken with a cup of hot chocolate rather than a glass of water.
It would take 1,120,000 mosquito bites to drain the average human of blood.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the ‘debris’ which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, billions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day.
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