interesting facts

   

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

A whale's penis is called a dork.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.

Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural..

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206..

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.