Facts & Figures

› Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.

› Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them.

› 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.

› Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions.

› One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.

› One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.

› Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.

› Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.

› 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!

› The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

› The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.

› The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.

› The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

› The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.

› The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.

› The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

› The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.

› The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080.

› The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.

› The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.

› The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

› The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

› There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!

› To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.

› Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.

› You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.

› You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.

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