Animals Interesting Facts
Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
Cows can have regional accents
A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.
In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.
US Secret Service sniffer dogs are put up in five-star hotels during overseas presidential visits.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Bulls are color blind.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
Emus can't walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Some fleas have split penises like a Y shape
An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
India has 50 million monkeys.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
A squid has 10 tentacles.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
A swan is the only bird with a penis
The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
Zebras can't see the color orange.
There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than those found in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to breakdown as opposed to the hour that it takes to break down cow milk.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Human Interesting facts (Really very interesting)
Humans Interesting Facts
This is weird but true!
While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.
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When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it
This is weird but true!
While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will change direction.
*
When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it
25 Interesting Facts
1. A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.
2. About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
3. According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
4. Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.
5. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
6. All polar bears are left-handed.
7. Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
8. Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
9. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
10. An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
11. Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
12. According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
13. Americans drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million bottles of soda.
14. After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
15. Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
16. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
17. An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
18. An eyelash lives about 5 months.
19. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
20. According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.
21. An Octopus has 3 hearts!
22. According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
23. A whale's penis is called a dork.
24. An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.
25. Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
2. About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
3. According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
4. Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.
5. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
6. All polar bears are left-handed.
7. Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
8. Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
9. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
10. An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
11. Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
12. According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
13. Americans drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million bottles of soda.
14. After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
15. Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
16. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
17. An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
18. An eyelash lives about 5 months.
19. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
20. According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.
21. An Octopus has 3 hearts!
22. According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
23. A whale's penis is called a dork.
24. An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.
25. Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
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