Facts

Human Body Facts


According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.




When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.




Take your height and divide by eight. That’s how tall your head is.




Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!




40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.




Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.




Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.




While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.




Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.








Food Facts






Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!




The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.




Honey is the only food that will not spoil.




There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!




In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted raw horse flesh ice-cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!






Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!




25% of all the retail establishments in the U.S. are for eating or drinking.








Facts


Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.




On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.




Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.




Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.




Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.


In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.




Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.




Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.




If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.




Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.




There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!




25% of all the retail establishments in the U.S. are for eating or drinking




Most burglaries occur during the daytime!




It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!




Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.




The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!




Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.




Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.


In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.




The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!




In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.




The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!




In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and cook it for dinner!




Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.




More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!




The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!




It is illegal for tourists to enter Mexico with more than 2 CD's!




41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.




A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.




The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.




The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.




Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food




A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.




Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.




The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!




The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.




Your brain is 80% water.




One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.




One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!




Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.




A male baboon can kill a leopard.




French was the official language of England for over 600 years.