67 Interesting Facts

67 Interesting Facts 

1. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

2. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

3. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

4. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

5. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

6. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

7. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

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

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

10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

11. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

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

13. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

14. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

15. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

16. Polar bears are left handed.

17. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

18. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

19. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

20. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

21. 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.

22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

23. Butterflies taste with their feet.

24. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

25. Starfish don't have brains.

26. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

27. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

28. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

29. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

30. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

31. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

32. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

33. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

34. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

35. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

36. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

37. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

38. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

39. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

40. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

41. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

42. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

43. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)

44. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

45. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

46. Pearls melt in vinegar.

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

48. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

49. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

50. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it?)

51. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

52. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

53. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

54. Butterflies taste with their feet.

55. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

56. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

57. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

58. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

59. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

60. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

61. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

62. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? )

63. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

64. A snail can sleep for three years.

65. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

66. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

67. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!