Sunday, April 25, 2010

Interesting 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.

* Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb.
The survivor is born.

* 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.

* Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

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