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07-13-2005, 10:34 PM
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Real Facts 1-109
1 A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds
2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons 3 Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water 4 Slugs have 4 noses 5 Camels have 3 eyelids 6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph 7 A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day 8 A bee has 5 eyes 9 The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph 10 Mosquitos are attracted to people who just ate bananas 11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp 12 Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward 13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords 14 Camel's milk does not curdle 15 All porcupines float in water 16 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1 17 A hummingbird weighs less then a penny 18 A jellyfish is 95% water 19 Children grow faster in the spring 20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower 21 Almonds are part of the peach family 22 Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work 23 The San Francisco Cable cars are th only mobile national monument 24 The state of maine has 62 lighthouses 25 The only food that does not spoil is honey 26 The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters 27 A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber 28 Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying 29 On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime 30 Fish have eyelids 31 The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping 32 There are one million ants to every human in the world 33 Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music! 34 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white 35 Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day 36 A duck's quack doesn't echo 37 A snail breathes through it's foot 38 Fish cough... 39 An ant's smell is stronger then a dog's 40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down 41 Shrimp can only swim backward 42 Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open 43 A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways 44 The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps 45 Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day 46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump 47 Giraffes have no vocal chords 48 Cats can hear ultrasound 49 Despite its hump...camel's have a straight spine 50 Mosquitos have 47 teeth 51 There are 63,360 inches in a mile 52 11% of people in the world are lefthanded 53 The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime 54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms 55 A human brain weighs about 3lbs 56 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet 57 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year 58 A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100mph 59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train 60 A tongue is the fastest healing part of the body 61 Pigs get sunburn 62 The lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days 63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime 64 Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges 65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations 66 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day 67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo 68 The longest one syllabled word is "screeched" 69 No word in the english language rhymes with month 70 A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second (Caller ID is illegal in California) 71 There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia 72 The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use 73 The average person spends 2 weeks of it's life waiting for a traffic light to change 74 You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world 75 The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year 76 The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime 77 No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times 78 Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US 79 There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter 80 About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet 81 Alaska has more caribou then people 82 August has the highest percent of births 83 Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros) 84 Oysters can change genders back and forth 85 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows 86 Until the 19th century solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia 87 A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance 88 A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid 89 The average American walks 18,000 steps a day 90 The average raindrop falls at 7mph 91 There are more telephones then people in Washington D.C. 92 Fish can drown 93 A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet 94 Lizards communicate by doing push-ups 95 Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs 96 The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime 97 A turkey can run at 20mph 98 When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less 99 You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum 100 In a year, the average person walks 4 miles makeing their bed 101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time 102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories 103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling 104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record 105 You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement 106 You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level 107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV 108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories 109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you loose weight |
  
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