Please note that some of the 'facts' below have
been proven false myths. An example is the
duck's quack which does not echo (but proved
that it does).

1. It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)

2. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

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

4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-
second.

5. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of
80 years, no one reported a single case where an
ostrich buried its head in the sand.

6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into
the sky.

7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)

8. More than 50% of the people in the world have
never made or received a telephone call.

9. Rats and horses can't vomit.

10. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a
blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

12. If you keep your eyes open by force when you
sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.

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

14. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

15. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

16. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

17. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

18. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

19. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are
caused by people sitting on them and
photocopying their butts.

20. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while
sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

21. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

22. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

23. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick
their elbow.

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

25. Money notes are not made from paper, they are
made mostly from a special blend of cotton and
linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred
in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out
of wood for a brief period.

26. The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter
the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a
group of record executives were alarmed by the
explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a
threat to "quality" music.

27. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by
a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves
accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The
tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas
Sullivan of New York.

28. Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century,
American men were the tallest in the world,
averaging 1,71m (5'6". Today, the average
height for American men is 1,75m (5'7",
compared to 1,77 (5'8" for Swedes, and 1,78
(5'8.5" for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the
world is the Watusis of Burundi.

29. In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs
Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95
million in a will that was found in a tin box with
four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the
10 wealthiest women in the world.

30. Joseph Niepce developed the world's first
photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and
W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in
1894. But the first projection of an image on a
screen was made by a German priest. In 1646,
Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to
project hand-painted images onto a white screen.

31. In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to
accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer
because the Writers Guild was on strike against
the movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott
refused the Best Actor Oscar for Patton. In 1972
Marlon Brando refused the Oscar for his role in
The Godfather.

32. The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.

33. A person can live without food for about a month,
but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by
just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

34. According to a study by the Economic Research
Service, 27% of all food production in Western
nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion
people are underfed - the same number of people
who are overweight.

35. Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of
the way they move, not because of their
transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has
one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The
humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an
undernourished camel will not have a hump.

36. In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy
spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick
up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say
fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.

37. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix
is a registered trademark of AT&T.

38. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a
company that created machines which recorded
the number of cars passing a given point on a
road.

39. Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.

40. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker
- the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey
astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about
craters, but never made it into space. Mr.
Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but
was rejected because of a medical problem. His
ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector
spacecraft before it was launched on January 6,1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.

41. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software
producing country in the world.

42. The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus
afarenisis was named Lucy after the
paleontologists' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds," by the Beatles.

43. Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands
for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.

44. Every human spent about half an hour as a single
cell.

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

46. Hot water is heavier than cold.

47. Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942,
by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg
and his colleagues - was the first man-made
element.

48. If you went out into space, you would explode
before you suffocated because there's no air
pressure.

49. The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is
used in many smoke detectors.

50. The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives,
referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives.
This is due to the fact that the original Winchester
drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of
course, a Winchester firearm.

51. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than
through the air.

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

53. Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed
by a meteor: the European Space Agency's
Olympus in 1993.

54. Starch is used as a binder in the production of
paper. It is the use of a starch coating that
controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper
papers do not use as much starch, and this is
why your elbows get black when you are leaning
over your morning paper.

55. Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure
silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.

56. 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.

57. A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the
capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer,
which occupied a city block.

58. An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction,
and could be called an atomic bomb. What we
call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and
should be called a nuclear bomb.

59. 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.

60. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

Toyolad:

23. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick
their elbow.

Lol. Na God save you say my tongue no long, else I for dey lick d sugar way dey my elbow now.

61. over 40% viewers wouldn't read this to d end.... MODS FP jawr

SammyHoe:
Lol. Na God save you say my tongue no long, else I for dey lick d sugar way dey my elbow now.

who tell u say sugar dey ur elbow..u don lick someone's elbow before?

#Lol


Yes!! Yes!! Yes!!..I made it! I made frontpage!!
Halleluyah!!

tobillionaire: 61. over 40% viewers wouldn't read this to d end.... MODS FP jawr

like me o

Toyolad: who tell u say sugar dey ur elbow..u don lick someone's elbow before?

#Lol

Lol

reason why white hate black skin black picture !
https://www.nairaland.com/1839754/reason-why-white-hate-black#25165925

cockroach are always active at night.

One major fact you forgot, we all missed nairaland when it crashed

60. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

How do you measure something that's an atom shorter?
What difference does it make BTW?

Ebola is an ancient disease

One Nigerian fact: there is a type of bird found in the jos-plateau that can't be found anywhere else.

Another: the middle belt has the highest concentration of ethnic groups in the world, taking its size into consideration.

in 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

#fact#

Am going live till 100 years

I think Many of them are so wrong, but funny anyway.

Tried licking my elbow...

rattlesnake: #fact#

Am going live till 100 years

do rattlesnakes live that long

More....



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

#Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

#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.

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

#Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!

#What is called a "French kiss" in the English
speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

#"Almost" is the longest word in the English
language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

#"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

#In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

#A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

cococandy:
60. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

How do you measure something that's an atom shorter?
What difference does it make BTW?

i just tire for the matter...

lols

..

ok

.61) Girls will always chop and boys will always work

Yawns

Anyone that eats boiled corn unknowingly pays homage to me

Seen this stuff for the umpteenth time ..

How many times will these dry facts be posted on Front page ?

interesting

Nigeria celeb facts here

#Doyouknow Damiduro crooner 'DAVIDO' is actually adopted..his real dad is a gateman in Ibadan"

2FACE is worth 30million FAZE #9million BLACKFACE just #100,000 + he owes his landlord rent money #saveblackface"

#Do U know that Wizkid as a celeb is currently wit d highest ammount of followers on twitter apart frm pastor Chris with 1million+"

#Doyouknowthat actress Mercy Johnson insured her bre*ast 4 #10million 4d fear of her husband sucking the living life out of it."
#Doyouknowthat Brymo was kicked out of his label 4saying 'LIFE IS SHORT BUT MI IS SHORTER'"

#DoUknowthat Yoruba rap star Olamide, waz selling ratpoison in d street of Lagos b4 He hit it big in music"
#DoUknowThat the bigness nd wideness of Segun Arinze's eyeballs makes him able to see witches nd ghost"

#DoUknowthat a boy who was in coma for 5yrs wokeup after being played tonto dikeh songs 2 him..he cudnt bear d torture"
After his first national television performance, ‘Ovation Media’ said dat ‘Davido has no singing ability’today Davido is topping charts"

While on holiday in France, Dbanj went
out for a casual bike ride and
accidentally won the Tour de France."

CharlieMaria: ..

busted