Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,143,185 members, 7,780,268 topics. Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 11:36 AM

50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True - Education - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Education / 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True (3803 Views)

Weird Fact Picture Series / Important Abbreviations You Might Not Know / Some Striking Fact You Won't Believe Until You Do Research!!! (2) (3) (4)

(1) (2) (Reply) (Go Down)

50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by piicity(m): 3:12pm On Jul 05, 2015
1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
2. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them. 3. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
4.The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
5. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
6.The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
7.It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
8.The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080. 9.The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. 10.The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
11. Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water. 12. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.
13. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
14. During the 17th Century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his hole harem of women to be drowned and replaced with a new one. 15.Coffins used for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.
16."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
17. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
18. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off.
19. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try!
20. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon. 21. Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions.
22. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska.
23. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
24. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
25. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
26. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.
27. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.
28. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
29. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
30. A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.
31. One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
32. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
33. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
34. James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.
35. The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something productive!
36.Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.
37. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter. 38. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
39. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London. 40. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
41. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
42. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
43. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.
44. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day. 45.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 46.11% of the World is left handed. 47.A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second. 48.A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
49. A broken clock is right two times a day.
50. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.
Source :http://www.mynigerianewspaper.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=228&p=612#p612

Go to http://mynigerianewspaper.com to catch more updating jokes,sport news,politics,phone review etc.

CC: Lalasticlala,Ishilove

4 Likes 3 Shares

Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Trackango: 3:17pm On Jul 05, 2015
Incredible
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by smartgenius10(m): 3:19pm On Jul 05, 2015
Cool cool
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Nobody: 3:26pm On Jul 05, 2015
Wow
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Suspect33(m): 3:26pm On Jul 05, 2015
fp material
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Supermiy: 4:08pm On Jul 05, 2015
My typa thread
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by philGeo(m): 6:31pm On Jul 05, 2015
Good
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by b3llo(m): 7:16pm On Jul 05, 2015
The broken clock fact is very correct. I've learnt something new today.
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Shaadey: 8:40pm On Jul 05, 2015
Gbayi
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by kennynelcon(m): 8:52pm On Jul 05, 2015
The tongue.
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by yungEX(m): 9:08pm On Jul 05, 2015
broken clock fact is really awesome
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by ellahzy(f): 9:33pm On Jul 05, 2015
I like that ALMOST aspect
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by GLOBALINF: 9:39pm On Jul 05, 2015
Nice
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Geezyayo(m): 10:03pm On Jul 05, 2015
u try small... come make i give ya ten naira
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Donkaz(m): 10:54pm On Jul 05, 2015
That birth control method sha...
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by frostland(m): 11:15pm On Jul 05, 2015
wat is d skeleton of Jeremy Bentham doing in d meeting abi him da contribute to d discussion?
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by hahn(m): 11:30pm On Jul 05, 2015
How enlightening
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Kunle106(m): 11:40pm On Jul 05, 2015
This no 19 got me "It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open"
We dare you, give it a try! Lolz..
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Nobody: 12:06am On Jul 06, 2015
51. Michelle is the president of west #WestGermany
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by adewhaleK(m): 12:29am On Jul 06, 2015
This is superb
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by ibkgab001: 1:21am On Jul 06, 2015
Ok

Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Nobody: 1:35am On Jul 06, 2015
Nice work.
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Nobody: 1:35am On Jul 06, 2015
Kunle106:
This no 19 got me "It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open"
We dare you, give it a try! Lolz..
nor tryam oh
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by modskiller(m): 7:05am On Jul 06, 2015
Thanks for sharing OP
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Kunle106(m): 7:37am On Jul 06, 2015
Teempakguy:
nor tryam oh
u need to see dis funny look on my face wen I was trying it. smiley
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by unikchyka(f): 10:50am On Jul 06, 2015
Interesting
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Jummyjagz(f): 1:35pm On Jul 06, 2015
I doff my hat 4u sir!!
Thats really awesome
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by Bibidear(f): 3:42pm On Jul 06, 2015
Wow,this is great,thanks for enlightening me
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by SELENAqueensy(f): 3:49pm On Jul 06, 2015
5million times? Op, u sure?
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by CertifiedFreak(m): 11:56pm On Jul 06, 2015
The sultan part is really whammy. Hell, new veejays when he desires.
Re: 50 Weird Fact You Might Not Know But It Is Completely True by boss1310(m): 3:53am On Jul 07, 2015
number 6 is for people in western countries

(1) (2) (Reply)

How To Change NYSC Date Of Birth During Online Registration / If Killing One Person Can Start World War, Who Could Be That One Person? / BUK Email Address

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 28
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.