True Facts - 2

1. If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
   
2. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
   
3. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116orold
   
4. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
   
5. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
   
6. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
   
7. Most cats are left pawed
   
8. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
   
9. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
   
10. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
    
11. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
    
12. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
    
13. Bone is five times stronger than steel.
    

True Facts

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. A 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
   
8. language;192
   
9. Slugs have four noses
   
10. Sharks can live up to 100 years
    
11. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
    
12. Kangaroos can't walk backwards
    
13. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday
    
14. The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
    
15. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
    
16. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
    
17. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
    
18. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
    
19. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
    
20. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
    
21. Octopus have three hearts
    

Men And Animals - 7

1. Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.
   
2. Japan's Tokyo Zoo closes for two months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
   
3. A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
   
4. Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.
   
5. During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.
   
6. Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing.
   
7. The average woman uses about 7,000 words a day. Men use around 2,000
   
8. The colors yellow, red and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate a hunger response.
   
9. The black lines on a basketball are called the Channels.
   
10. Nostophobia is the fear of returning home.
    
11. Stygiophobia is the fear of hell.
    
12. The common mousetrap was invented by the same guy who invented the machine gun—Hiram Maxim.
    

Men and Animals - 6

1. Pregnant mothers carrying boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls.
   
2. In the Czech Republic, peas are thrown at brides and grooms rather than rice.
   
3. Anyone in good enough condition to run three miles a day is in good enough condition not to have to.
   
4. Honeybees, turtles and termites are all deaf.
   
5. The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
   
6. "Paraphilia" is the technical term for sexual deviation or perversion.
   
7. Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.
   
8. "Caterpillar" means "hairy cat" in Old French.
   
9. Waterskiing was originally called "plank-gliding" in England.
   
10. There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.
    
11. The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he'd never publish another.
    
12. Badminton used to be known as "poona."
    

Men And Animals - 5

1. Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips.
   
2. I've never had premonitions, but I think one day I might
   
3. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourage saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up
   
4. Pnigophobia is the fear of choking on fish bones
   
5. Mercedes Benz cars are named after Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek, the Austrian businessman who founded the company.
   
6. A "quinquagenarian" is someone in their fifties.
   
7. The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate.
   
8. Sony's first product was a rice cooker.
   
9. A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a Gibson if it has an onion in it. A cocktail of gin and vermouth is called a martini if it has an olive in it.
   
10. Before "SOS" was introduced as the most recognized distress signal, the signal was "CQD." "CQ" stood for "seek you" and "D" stood for "Danger"
    
11. Because of their racing metabolisms, hummingbirds are always two hours away from starvation.
    
12. The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold.
    

Men and Animals - 4

1. The letters ‘AD’ appearing after a date do not, as many believe, mean ‘After Death’, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ. the initials actually stand for "Anno Domini," a Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the Lord. ‘A.D.’ refers to dates occurring after the birth of Christ.
   
2. The words "naked" and "nude" are not the same. Naked implies unprotected. Nude means unclothed.
   
3. The carotenoids in eggs may reduce the risk of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration.
   
4. Heart-attacks are more common among men because they cry less frequently than women.
   
5. To keep your feet warm, put on a hat: 80% of all body heat escapes through the head.
   
6. Proctor & Gamble originally manufactured candles before moving on to soap.
   
7. The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.
   
8. Oscar was designed by MGM's chief art director, Cedric Gibbons.
   
9. If you are ‘mysophobic’, you have an intense fear of infection.
   
10. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
    
11. Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
    
12. The Swift is a bird that remains airborne for 2-3 yrs, during which it sleeps, drinks, eats, and mates on the wing.
    

Men and Animals - 3

1. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
   
2. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
   
3. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
   
4. SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
   
5. Hyperpolysyllabicomania is a fondness for big words.
   
6. The scientific term for nose-picking is Rhinotillexonamia.
   
7. Exobiology is the study of extraterrestrial life.
   
8. Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
   
9. 4,108 terrorist incidents occurring in India between the years 1970 and 2004. During this period, India ranked sixth among all countries in terms of terrorist incidents.
   
10. A total of 5,011 people were killed in the terrorist attacks in India between 2002 and 2007
    
11. On the average a fart is composed of about 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, and 4% oxygen. Less than 1% is what makes them stink.
    
12. Los Angeles's full name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina delos Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
    
13. Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
    

Men and Animals - 2

1. Ants don't sleep. 
   
2. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. 
   
3. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat. 
   
4. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US. 
   
5. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. 
   
6. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. 
   
7. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs." 
   
8. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. 
   
9. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel. 
   
10. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length. 
    
11. A baby bat is called a pup.
    

Facts About Men And Animals...

1. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only onone row ! of the keyboard.
3. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
4. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
5. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
6. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heartstops for a millisecond.
7. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
8. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughesttongue twister in the English language.
9. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress asneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
10. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.Spades - King DavidClubs - Alexander the Great,Hearts - CharlemagneDiamonds - Julius Caesar.
11. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
12. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in theair, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse hasall four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
13. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?Ans. - All invented by women.
14. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - HoneY.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.A snail can sleep for three years.All polar bears are left handed.
15. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from eachsalad served in first-class.
16. Butterflies taste with their feet.