#FACTS


1. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

2. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

3. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

4. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

5. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

6. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.

9. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

10. Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born head first, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

11. Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

12. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

13. Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

14. At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.

15. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

16. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

17. Hot water is heavier than cold.

18. Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

19. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

20. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

21. Rats and horses can't vomit.

22. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.

23. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

24. A cat's urine glows under a black light.

25. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

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

27. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

28. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

29. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

30. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

31. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

32. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

33. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

34. You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

35. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

36. The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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