Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts Around the World

VERY INTERESTING UNKOWN FACTS

 Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

1. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the  airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling! 
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

1. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
2. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
3. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
4. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
5. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
6. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
7. Mosquitoes are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
8. About 75 acres of Pizza are eaten in the U.S. everyday.
9. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
10. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
11. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
12. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
13. Octopus have three Hearts.
14. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
15. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
16. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
17. Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
18. Most cats are left pawed.
19. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
20. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
21. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
22. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
23. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
24. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
25. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
26. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mails are delivered each year in the U.S.
27. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
28. A cat has 32 muscles in each year.
29. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
30. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
31. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
32. A jumbo jet uses 40,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A  meaningless existential hell."
36. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
37. You can only smell 1/20th as well as dog.
38. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
39. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
40. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
41. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the U.S.
42. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
43. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
44. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
45. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
46. The word "Samba" means "to rub navels together."
47. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
48. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
49. Until 1796, there was a state in the U.S. called Franklin.Today it is known as Tennessee.
50. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.