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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.
- The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
- Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
- A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
- Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.
- There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
- One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
- Sharks can live up to 100 years.
- Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
- The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
- The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
- Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
- Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
- There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
- The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
- Octopus have three hearts.
- If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
- The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
- 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
- The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
- Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
- Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
- Most cats are left pawed.
- 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
- You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
- Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
- A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
- There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
- One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- Sharks can live up to 100 years.
- The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- Mosquitoes are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
- About 75 acres of Pizza are eaten in the U.S. everyday.
- Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
- Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
- There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
- The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
- Octopus have three Hearts.
- If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
- The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
- Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
- Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
- Most cats are left pawed.
- A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
- You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
- Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
- An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
- 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
- 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
- 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
- 166,875,000,000 pieces of mails are delivered each year in the U.S.
- 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each year.
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- A jumbo jet uses 40,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
- 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- You can only smell 1/20th as well as dog.
- You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- There are 2 credit cards for every person in the U.S.
- Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
- There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
- The word "Samba" means "to rub navels together."
- The state of Florida is bigger than England.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- Until 1796, there was a state in the U.S. called Franklin.Today it is known as Tennessee.
- The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
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