Strange but True Facts

 

Strange but True Facts
 

#1   A Goldfish’s attention span is three seconds
 

#2   Animals that lay eggs dont 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
 

#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