11% of people are left handed
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August has the highest percentage of births
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Unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it
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The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
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Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
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8% of people have an extra rib |
85% of plant life is found in the ocean |
Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz |
Rabbits like licorice |
The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters |
‘Topolino’ is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy |
A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue |
Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex |
Reindeer like bananas |
The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds |
Birds need gravity to swallow |
The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E |
The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English |
Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt |
The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON |
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear |
Perth is Australia’s windiest city |
Elvis’s middle name was Aron |
Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light |
The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear |
Cats spend 66% of their life asleep |
Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year |
Money is the number one thing that couples argue about |
Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs |
When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit) |
Spiders are arachnids and not insects |
Each time you see a full moon you always see the same side |
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand |
Honey is the only natural food which never spoils |
M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie |
That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become) |
The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia |
The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles) |
About 90% of the worlds population kisses |
Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine |
The Internet was originally called arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense |
Toilets use 35% of indoor water use |
The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco |
Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day |
The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954 |
All insects have 6 legs |
The croissant was invented in Austria |
In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas |
African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words |
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue |
Australia was originally called New Holland |
‘Lonely Planet’ for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia |
The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet |
The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs |
All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes |
Your foot has 26 bones in it |
The average human brain contains around 78% water |
1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph) |
If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3…) It totals 5050 |
Sponges hold more cold water than hot |
Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute |
Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill |
Cats have over 100 vocal chords |
Camel’s milk doesn’t curdle |
Elephants sleep between 4 – 5 hours in 24 period |
It’s possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down |
Frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open |
Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump |
A 1/4 of your bones are in your feet |
Your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body |
On your birthday you share it with 9 million others |
1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros |
A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories |
You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV |
Frogs don’t usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin) |
At birth dalmations are always white |
Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards |
A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head |
A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute |
Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk |
A crocodile can’t move its tongue |
That the first MTV video played was ‘Video killed the radio star’ by the Buggles |
In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names |
Pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians |
An average person will spend 25 years asleep |
Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal |
An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature |
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world |
The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression |
The word laser stands for ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’ |
Crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure |
Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube |
Your skin is the largest organ making up the human body |
Cows don’t have upper front teeth |
Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world |
The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity |
French fries are originally from Belgium |
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year |
There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo |
In a deck of cards the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache |
Black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact |
The safest car color is white |
The most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush |
Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961 |
Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee |
Room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25C (68 to 77F) |
An octopus pupil is rectangular |
The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other |
The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service |
The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor’s salaries |
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in ‘dous’ (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous) |
The oldest word in the English language is ‘town’ |
Cats can’t move their jaw sideways |
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave |
Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky |
Your most sensitive finger is your index finger (closest to your thumb) |
‘Bookkeeper’ and ‘bookkeeping’ are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters |
Venetian blinds were invented in Japan |
The average golf ball has 336 dimples |
The word ‘Strengths’ is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel |
The movie ‘Wayne’s World’ was filmed in two weeks |
The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply |
A group of frogs is called an army |
A group of rhinos is called a crash |
A group of kangaroos is called a mob |
A group of whales is called a pod |
A group of geese is called a gaggle |
A group of owls is called a parliament |
The first sailing boats were built in Egypt |
Brazil is named after a tree |
Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent |
Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador |
Hilton was the first international hotel chain |
The brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland |
Monopoly is the most played board game in the world |
96% of candles sold are purchased by women |
42% of men and women 25% don’t wash their hands after using a public toilet |
If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court |
Jamaica has 120 rivers |
A cats urine glows under a blacklight |
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf |
Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees |
Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds |
Domestic cats dislike citrus scents |
Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length |
China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys |
The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles) |
Paper originated from China |
The wheelbarrow is invented in China |
Tree hugging is forbidden in china |
The film ‘Mary Poppins’ was filmed entirely indoors |
All of the clocks in the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ are fixed to 4:20 |
Instant coffee was invented in 1901 |
The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold |
Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population |
Pearls melt in vinegar |
A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don’t) |
There is no butter in buttermilk |
Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels |
The dot on top of the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle |
The electric chair was invented by a dentist |
You’re more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider |
A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue |
Rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated |
Women blink twice as much as men |
Ostriches don’t bury their heads in sand |
Only female mosquitoes bite |
Scotland has the most redheads |
Household dust is made of dead skin cells |
The past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is ‘durst’ |
Hummingbirds can’t walk |
Wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object |
The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953 |
India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000) |
India is home to over 200 million cows |
The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble |
Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora |
Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13 |
Every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered |
The word ‘uncopyrightable’ is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter |
The word ‘testify’ derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles |
The word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard |
That you can spell the word ‘level’ the same backwards |
Madonna and Michael Jackson were both born in 1958 |
Almonds are members of the peach family |
An egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C |
Owls can’t move their eyes from side to side |
You take over 23,000 breaths everyday |
Gold never erodes |
Scorpions glow under ultra violet light |
When water freezes it expans by 9% |
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning |
Your foot and your forearm are the same length |
Diamonds are the hardest natural substance |
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 |
The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes |
Halley’s comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062) |
There is no sound in space |
Tennis was originally played with bare hands |
The Olympic flag was designed in 1913 |
A bowling pin will fall at a tilt of 7.5 degrees |
There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year |
A piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times |
The opposite sides of a die always adds up to 7 |
VHS stands for Video Home System |
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer |
The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939 |
Porsche also builds tractors |
The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps |
Isaac Newton invented the cat door |
The Titanic was built in Belfast |
Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms |
Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands |
Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year |
Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee |
Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day |
Einstein slept 10 hours a night |
Germany borders 9 other countries |
Peru has more pyramids than Egypt |
Christmas trees originated from Germany |
More people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks |
The original design of Monopoly was circular |
The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second |
Over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products |
Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day |
The lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years |
The stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair |
The word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards |
A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel |
You burn more calories sleeping than watching television |
The word ‘underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters ‘und’ |
56% of typing is completed by your left hand |
There are more chickens than people |
For every human there are 200 million insects |
The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites |
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes |
Emus can’t walk backwards |
The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets |
Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla |
The doorbell was invented in 1831 |
There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown |
The oldest known vegetable is the pea |
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays |
The average hen lays 228 eggs a year |
The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps |
Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country |
Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old |
The word ‘almost’ is the longest word spelt alphabetically |
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete |
Earth is the only planet not named after a god |
Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th |
More people are allergic to cows milk than any other food |
More people are killed from bees than snakes |
The average person laughs 10 times a day |
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific |
Your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day |
Your head contains 22 bones |
The coloured part of your eye is called the iris |
If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times |
Everyone has a unique tongue print |
You begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water |
Hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes |
Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks) |
The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days |
A dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph) |
The smallest dog is the Chihuahua |
A sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph) |
There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people) |
The worlds smallest bird is the ‘bee hummingbird’ found in Cuba |
African elephants only have 4 teeth |
The first English dictionary was written in 1755 |
The rarest type of diamond is green |
Mastercard was originally called mastercharge |
The US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states) |
Men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women |
Tokyo was once known as Edo |
Women make up 49% of the worlds population |
Wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light |
The tea bag was invented in 1908 |
Carrots contain 0% fat |
1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year |
Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970 |
The $ sign was introduced in 1788 |
The meaning of ‘Blue Chip’ comes from blue casino chips which have a high value |
Dvds are physically the same size as a cds but can store 13 times more data |
The term ‘disc jockey’ was first used in 1937 |
Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air |
The average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches |
Soccer is the most followed sport |
Volleyball was invented in 1895 |
That in developed countries 27% of food is thrown away |
The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1 |
The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph) |
Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second |
It takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots |
Your most active muscles are in your eye |
A banana contains 75% water |
13 people die every year from vending machines |
Rain contains vitamin B12 |
Your liver has over 500 functions |
Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe |
After Hawaii, New York is the state surrounded by the most water |
Ice skating rinks always go counter clock wise (for the majority of people that are right handed needing to hang onto the rail) |
A flea can jump 350 times its body length |
Cucumbers are 96% water. |
A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon |
A honeybee’s top speed is 24kph (15mph) |
A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute) |
Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway |
Horses have 18 more bones than humans |
A cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph) |
Horses sleep standing up |
A jellyfish is 95% water |
Bats are the only mammals that fly |
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through |
Every day 7% of the US eats at mcdonalds |
A snail can sleep for 3 years |
Tigers have striped skin as well as fur |
Crocodiles are colour blind |
A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body |
Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet |
Hippopotamuses are born under water |
Bananas grow pointing upwards. |
Whales can’t swim backwards |
Camels are born without humps |
Only female mosquitoes bite |
The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes |
Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food |
Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river |
There are more insects in the world than all other animals combined |
Giraffes can’t swim |
Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper |
An elephant’s trunk can hold over 5 litres of water |
Bull’s can run faster uphill than down |
A shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel |
A moth has no stomach |
Grasshoppers have white blood |
It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg |
New York was once called New Amsterdam |
There is 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans than has been mined |
Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around) |
The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days |
More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator |
2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.) |
Hawaii officially became apart of the US in 1900 |
The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia |
New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline |
The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake |
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia |
The largest exporter of sugar is Cuba |
Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow |
Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames) |
1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years |
The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink |
Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January |
The Moons diameter is 3,476km |
New York’s Central Park was opened in 1876 |
The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess |
The word old English word ‘juke’ meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box |
EMI awards stands for ‘Electrical and Musical Instruments’ |
The most sung song is happy birthday |
The first rugby club was formed in 1843 |
The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb |
The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines |
Draughts (checkers) is older than chess |
Orienteering originated from Sweden |
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards |
When recognising a persons face you use the right side of your brain |
The human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels |
The hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail |
On average you blink 25,000 a day |
Men have 10% more red blood cells than women |
You have fewer muscles than a caterpillar |
New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843 |
When your face blushes so does your stomach lining |
1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands |
Your normal body temperature is 37C (99F) |
Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow |
You shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks |
That after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold |
The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907 |
The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700 |
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure |
The revolving door was invented in 1888 |
Minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F |
Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949 |
To crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound |
There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world |
Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity |
The lie detector was invented in 1921 |
The world’s knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years |
The drinking straw was invented in 1886 |
Red light has the highest wavelength |
Paper money was first used in China |
According to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes |
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body |
Light is electro magnetic radiation |
A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance |
Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur |
Giraffes have no vocal cords |
Most birds eat twice their body weight each day |
A group of whales is called a pod |
Armadillos can walk underwater |
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers |
The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract it’s claws |
Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks |
Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away |
Flamingos can only eat when their heada are upside down |
The fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human |
A female ferret is called a jill |
Porcupines float in water |
The last Play Boy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985 |
Scissors were most likely invented ancient Egypt |
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child |
Turnips turn green when sunburnt |
The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year |
Moisture (not air) causes super glue to dry |
Americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips |
Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991 |
70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer |
All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast |
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes |
Britain was the first country to use postage stamps |
The average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime |
A deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing |
The side of a hammer is called a cheek |
32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government |
Pinocchio is Italian for ‘pine head’ |
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1) |
The longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is ‘lollipop’ |
1 out of every 8 letters written is an e |
People who work at night tend to weigh more |
You can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun |
The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand’s south island |
45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day |
Most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin |
Elvis Presley made only 1 television commercial |
You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets) |
The typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 – 9 metres |
Diet Coke was introduced in 1982 |
The word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want |
Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury |
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times |
55% of all movies are rated R |
There are 2 chickens for every person |
80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21 |
Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18 |
Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18 |
Shakespeare invented the words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’ |
There are a million ants for every person on Earth |
Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year |
New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206) |
There is no proof as to who built the Taj Mahal |
The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’ is said to be the toughest tongue twister |
That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion) |
Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick |
You use 72 different muscles while speaking |
Coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks) |
It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa |
The most common disease is tooth decay |
Avocados have the most calories of any other fruit |
American’s eat 18 billion hot dogs a year |
Emus can’t walk backwards |
Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18 |
The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons |
The average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day |
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes |
There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown |
‘Babe’ was played by over 50 pigs |
The most common time for a wake up call is 7am |
Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal |
India has over 50 million monkeys |
Iceland was the first country to legalise abortion in 1935 |
Blue and white are the most common school colors |
Ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine |
Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects |
Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs |
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth |
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons |
The shell is 12% of an eggs weight |
The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years |
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum |
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint |
The longest one syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched’ |
A squid has 10 tentacles |
The average American eats 263 eggs a year |
In 75% of American households women manage the money and pay the bills |
Hypnotism is banned in public schools in San Diego (U.S.) |
A third of Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it |
You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other |
Your right lung takes in more air than your left |
Womens hearts beat faster than mens |
The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric) |
The odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1 |
The average bank teller loses $250 every year |
More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined |
The average person has 10,000 taste buds |
Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country |
‘Underground’ is the only word that begins and ends with the letters ‘und’ |
A woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice |
Snakes can’t blink |
Ants don’t like baby powder (talcum powder) |
Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day |
The ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck |
A rat can tread water for 3 days |
Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women |
There is no rice in rice paper |
Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout |
Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away |
Bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes |
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica |
Australia has the largest sheep population |
Greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67kph (42mph) |
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36) |
Sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest |
Greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed |
When 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators |
Most cows produce more milk when they listen to music |
Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear |
Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal |
Snakes can’t bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise) |
A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating |
Pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal |
Gorillas can’t swim |
House cats have 18 claws |
Giraffes can’t cough |
The Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak |
Deers don’t like hay |
Shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females |
The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day |
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos |
The average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years |
A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day |
Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle |
Spiders have transparent blood |
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes |
Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey |
March 14 is ‘save a spider day’ |
All the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube |
There are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs |
A fly’s recation time is 30 milliseconds |
Butterflies taste with their back feet |
Moths have no stomach |
Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second |
Bees have 4 wings |
The most eaten fruit in America is the banana |
The ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food |
Originally in 1886 Coca Cola was introduced as an ‘intellectual beverage’ to boost brain power |
Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii |
The frozen foods were first introduced in the 1920. |
The color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter) |
John Kellogg invented corn flakes |
60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day |
Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world |
Italy and France produce over 40% of all wine |
There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice |
Dairy products account for 29% of all food consumed in the U.S. |
The ideal temperature to fall asleep is between 18-30c (64-86f) |
Canada has more lakes than any other country |
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily |
90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean |
The Nile river flows North |
Spain’s largest source of income is from tourism |
Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn |
The first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand |
The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France |
The dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935 |
The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days |
The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935 |
Before 1863 the postal service in the US was free |
The first taxi service began in New York in 1907 |
Pez was invented in 1927 |
The elevator was invented in 1850 |
The first toothbrush was invented in 1498 |
Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten |
You brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply |
Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die |
The hardest substance in the human body is enamel |
There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body |
The number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes |
Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely) |
Rain contains vitamin B12 |
Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year |
Clouds fly higher during the day than the night |
The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles) |
It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing |
Every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced |
Your blood is 6 times thicker than water |
Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor) |
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature |
The opposite of a ‘vacuum’ is a ‘plenum’ |
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air |
Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers |
The most common Spanish surname is Garcia |
22% of people skip lunch daily |
The average person swallows 295 times during a meal |
72% of people eavesdrop |
The most popular snack food is potato chips |
45% of people use mouthwash daily |
On average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips |
The most popular toothbrush color is blue |
The US produces 19% of the world’s trash |
59% of people say that their average looking |
53% of women don’t leave home without makeup on |
44% of people have broken a bone |
9% of people skip breakfast daily |
Chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world’s almonds |
90% people depend on alarm clocks to wake up |
21% of people don’t make their bed in the morning |
85% of women wear the wrong bra size |
The number 1 reason why people purchase a mobile phone is for safety |
Per person France consumes the most cheese |
The Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year |
75% of people wouldn’t give up their spouse for a night for a $1,000,000 |
M*A*S*H stood for ‘Mobile Army Surgical Hospital’ |
The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called ‘The Seinfeld Chronicles’ |
The first James Bond movie was called ‘Dr. No’ |
‘Fan’ is short for ‘fanatic’ |
Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed |
A standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats |
Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian) |
The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year |
The ‘black box’ that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash |
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons |
The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper |
The Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles |
The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913 |
The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour |
The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it |
The statue of Liberty’s mouth is 3 feet wide |
The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared |
3 teaspoons make up 1 tablespoon |
Useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years |
Jellyfish don’t have a brain |
45% of Americans don’t know that the sun is a star |
The Greek national anthem has 158 verses |
It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean |
You can’t tickle yourself |
You can’t trademark surnames |
Ferrets sleep between 18 – 20 hours a day |
The ‘you are here’ arrow on maps is called an ideo locator |
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel |
A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood |
There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building |
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year |
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours |
A baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks |
A group of foxes is called a skulk |
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man |
A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long |
Lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year |
A male baboon can kill a leopard |
Rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot |
A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs |
Elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph) |
Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September |
Most snakes have 1 lung |
Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand |
The night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans |
Flamingoes can live up to 80 years old |
In Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions |
Most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old |
Out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man |
An ostriches can outrun a horse |
An ostriches life span is 40-45 years |
Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground |
Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old |
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day |
A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses |
The greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72kph (45mph) |
The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots) |
Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years |
Hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick |
An arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people |
Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals |
Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator) |
Toads only eat moving prey |
When born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall |
A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight |
Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo |
Crocodiles continually grow new sets of teeth to replace old ones |
The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight |
There are over 1,600 known species of starfishes |
There are over 320 species of parrots |
There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant’s trunk |
There are over 690 known species of bats |
There are over 130 species of owl |
A garfish has green bones |
A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm |
A cat can keep purring while inhaling and exhaling |
The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours |
Camels can drink 94 litres (25 gallons) of water in less than 3 minutes |
You can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away |
There are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms |
There are over 7,000 different types of apples |
Thin skinned lemons are the juiciest |
On the average there are 8 peas in a pod |
You have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple) |
A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers |
The ice cream cone was introduced in 1904 |
93% of households in Denmark consume wine (the highest % in the world with France second with 85% of households) |
Chocolate is the number 1 food craved by women |
Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year |
Chicken drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken |
Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper |
Arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth |
Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones |
The average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year |
Cabbage is 91% water |
The most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin |
Fresh apples float because they contain 25% air |
Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea |
Lettuce is the worlds most popular green vegitable |
There are over 100 different viruses that cause the common cold |
Antarctica is 98% ice and 2% barren rock |
Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550) |
The average Americans diet consists of 55% junk food |
Canada has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country |
80% of all people hit by lightning are men |
Before beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada |
Chevy Chase’s real first name is Cornelius |
The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat |
A 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial |
A nanosecond is one billionth of a second |
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound |
Men change their minds 2 to 3 times more than women (women tend to take longer to make a decision but once they do they are more likely to stick to it) |
All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin |
Brontology is the study of thunder |
Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa |
Dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas |
Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax |
The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252 |
Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F) |
Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air |
Japanese people don’t have middle names |
Some playing cards in India are round |
The average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long |
The expression to ‘knuckle down’ originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots) |
The first aluminum drink can was introduced in 1964 |
The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900 |
The national anthems of Japan, Jordan, and San Marino each have only 4 lines |
There are only 3 sets of letters on a keyboard which are in alphabetical order (f g h, j k l, and o p) |
Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944 |
A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second |
A dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph) |
Flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds |
A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day |
Ants can lift 50 times their own weight |
Bees can see ultraviolet light |
80% of the world’s food crops are pollinated by insects |
10% of with world’s food supply is consumed by insects |
It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie |
Queen termites can live up to 50 years |
Most spiders have transparent blood |
Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles |
The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)) |
Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes |
There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies |
There are over 80,000 different species of ants |
All the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter |
An area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles |
More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun |
The world’s first paved streets were laid in Rome in 170 B.C. |
It takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster |
Natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks) |
There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte |
Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon) |
Acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys) |
All hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days |
There are over 225,000 trees in New York’s Central Park |
Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils |
80% of the world’s rose species come from Asia |
8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day |
Every living thing on the Earth contains carbon |
The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest |
It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl |
The average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn |
Onions are part of the lily family |
The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas) |
The softest known mineral is talc |
‘Orology’ is the study of mountains |
20% of China’s plants are used in medicine |
2/3 of the world’s eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey |
Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of their hands |
It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland |
Moths have white blood |
The diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles) |
The diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles) |
The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles) |
Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high |
Dolphin’s can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away |
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct |
Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years |
Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate |
Polar bears are strictly carnivores |
Sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years |
Some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long |
The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years |
The tallest mammal is the giraffe |
Warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph) |
Warthogs live for 15 years |
When baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month |
2 out of 5 people marry their first love |
30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seats |
45% of people use mouthwash everyday |
Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal |
People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other country |
The average shower temperature is 38C (101F) |
Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun) |
The algae found in the world’s oceans produces nearly 50% of the world’s oxygen |
The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920 |
There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game |
Nintendo first produced playing cards |
The word denim comes from ‘de Nimes’ or from Nimes which is a town in France |
There are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building |
Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time |
A chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its body |
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall |
A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second |
Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds |
The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand |
England’s Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old |
The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall |
The Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years |
The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons |
There are 132 rooms in the US White House |
Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms) |
Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber |
Bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium |
Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once a month |
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet |
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes |
No two spider webs are the same |
There are over 900,000 known species of insects |
Worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15 |
John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars |
Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930 |
Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans which go into the production of chocolate |
1 plain milk chocolate bar has more protein than a banana |
52% of Americans drink coffee |
Brazil accounts for 1/3 of the world’s coffee production |
Coffee is generally roasted between 204 – 218C (400 – 425F) (the longer the beans are roasted the darker the roast) |
Coffee is grown commercially in over 45 countries around the world |
Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year |
Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US |
As a world commodity coffee is second only to oil |
Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off) |
The first ground vacuum packed coffee was first introduced in 1900 |
Japan is the 3rd largest consumer of coffee |
Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry |
Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old |
The US is the world’s largest consumer of coffee |
There are around 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar while a cup of coffee has around 100 to 150 |
Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars |
Disneyland opened in 1955 |
MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown ‘Video killed the radio star’ by the Buggles) |
The 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs) |
The hamburger was invented in 1900 |
The hottest chile in the world is the habanero |
Australia is the only country that is also a continent |
Europe is the only continent without a desert |
Hawaii officially became a part of the US on June 14 1900 |
The dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785 |
The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969 |
In 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world’s first national park |
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks) |
The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime |
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body |
By age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds |
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it |
Fingernails grow faster than toenails |
Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime) |
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown |
The human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight) |
In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47 |
The vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words |
DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid |
The study of insects is called entomology |
The word ‘karate’ means ’empty hand’ |
The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters |
The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words ‘fourteen nights’ |
Wheat is the world’s most widely grown plant |
Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats |
Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome |
The first credit card was a Diner’s Club card issued in 1950 |
The most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminum |
The world’s first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York |
The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks |
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime |
The Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons |
Sea water is approximately 3.5% salt |
There are over 900 species of bats |
After bananas a zoo gorilla’s favorite food is celery |
The African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating |
The average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime |
Over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States |
Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962 |
In American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items |
Ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats |
Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall |
Blueberries are very high in antioxidants |
The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine |
A pumpkin really is a fruit |
Laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system |
Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%) |
The surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court |
England’s first great industry was wool |
The average age at which America’s presidents have taken office is 54 |
According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces |
The word ‘almost’ is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order |
A pip is one of the spots on die or domino |
The most commonly used word in English conversation is ‘I’ |
The number 2 is the only number greater than zero that when added to or multiplied by itself gives you the same result (4) |
The word ‘taxi’ is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese |
Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing |
Achluophobiais the fear of the dark |
Acrophobia is the fear of heights |
Agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces |
Aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects |
Akousticophobia is the fear of noises |
Amathophobia is the fear of dust |
Atychiphobia is the fear of failure |
Brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms |
Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors |
Dendrophobia is the fear of trees |
Gatophobia is the fear of cats |
Heliophobia is the fear of sunlight |
Helminthophobia is the fear of worms |
Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles |
Hippophobia is the fear of horses |
Iatrophobia is the fear of doctors |
Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish |
Melissophobia is the fear of bees |
Melophobia is the fear of music |
Myrmecophobia is the fear of ants |
Ombrophobia is the fear of rain |
Ornithophobia is the fear of birds |
Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains |
Tachophobia is the fear of speed |
Zoophobia is the fear of animals |
A lions feed once every 3 to 4 days |
Lion’s can’t roar until the age of 2 |
An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet |
You have over 600 muscles |
All owls lay white eggs |
Mapping is older than writing |
The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is |
From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas |
Sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words |
Triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13 |
The world’s most expensive spice is saffron |
The corkscrew was invented in 1890 |
Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car |
After you’ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest |
The human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year |
The little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a ‘porcelator’ |
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy |
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely |
There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US |
40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle |
$30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theaters |
A person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime |
The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year |
The average woman will consume over 2.7kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in their lifetime |
The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second |
A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair |
All snakes are carnivorous |
The tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet) |
The only letter which doesn’t appear in the Periodic Table is j |
October the 10th is national metric day |
The typewriter was invented in 1829 |
The dishwasher was invented in 1889 |
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 |
Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man |
When hydrogen burns in the air water is formed |
Due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead |
If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years |
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%) |
The moon is 27% the size of the Earth |
The center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F) |
Sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet) |
Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds |
An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity) |
The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old |
There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person |
