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Just like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue is different.
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Months that begin on a
Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.
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Native Americans used to
name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees
after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water.
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Of all the words in the
English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions.
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One fourth of the bones in
your body are in your feet.
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One in Five adults believe
that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
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Only 38% of Americans eat
breakfast every day.
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Scientists have tracked
butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.
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The average American spends
about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television.
What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something
productive!
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The average lead pencil will
write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
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The average person spends 2
weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
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The bloodhound is the only
animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
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The elephant is the only
mammal that can't jump!
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The FDA permits up to 5
whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.
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The largest recorded
snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
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The longest recorded flight
of a chicken is 13 seconds.
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The Matami Tribe of West
Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they
use a human skull.
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The present population is
expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080.
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The silkworm consumes
86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.
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The skeleton of Jeremy
Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.
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The tip of a bullwhip moves
so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
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The world's oldest piece of
chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
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There are no naturally
occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
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To produce a single pound
of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
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Travelling masseuses in
ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
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You are born with 300
bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
