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Intresting Facts

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 by CASANOVA | 0 comments

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

• The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
• Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
• A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
• A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
• There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
• One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
• The word " set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
• Slugs have four noses
• Sharks can live up to 100 years
• Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
• Kangaroos can't walk backwards
• About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday
• The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
• The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
• Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
• Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
• There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
• It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
• The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
• Octopus have three hearts
• If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange
• The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
• 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old
• The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
• Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs
• Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
• Most cats are left pawed
• 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
• You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
• Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours
• An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce
• Bone is five times stronger than steel.

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