- The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
- Cat urine glows under a black-light!
- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
- Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
- The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
- It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
- The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
- The state of Florida is bigger than England!
- There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
- In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
- It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Awesome Interesting Fact You don't Know...
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