General Facts
- It is impossible to lick your elbow( Try it out!!!)
- Insects do not make noises with their voices.The noise of bees ,mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
- Aegilops , 8 letters long ,is the longest word with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.
- Sailor,Dead Leaf,Paper Kite,Blue striped Crow,Julia and Great Egg Fly .....wondering what these are?
- Names of butterflies!!
- The shortest complete sentence in the English language? "Go"
- Spoonfed ,9 letters long ,is the longest word with its letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order.
- A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tape tum lucidum ,a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorbs light.
- A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
- A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
- In 1883 , the explosion of the volcano krakatoa put so must dust into the earths atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
- How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? By eating moss! The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluid warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region ,the chemical keeps them from freezing!
- There are no penguins in
- re efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- A blue whales heart is the size of volkswagen Beetle!
- Its estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the worlds population is drunk.
- 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.
- An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
- 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.