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You use 200 muscles to take one step.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
The longest word in English has 45 letters: 'pneumonoultra-
microscopicsilico-
volcanoconiosis'. It is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash
8th January 1835 is the only day in history
that the USA had no national debt.
Do you know what is special about the following sentence? ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. This type of sentence is called a 'pangram' as it uses every letter in the English language.
The designer of Saddam’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker.
George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand-made by the same Italian cobbler.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
You are more likely to be struck by lightning than win the powerball jackpot. The odds for a lightning strike are 576,000 to 1 and winning the powerball jackpot are 140,000,000 to 1.
Competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi set a world record by eating 57 pan-seared cow brains (17.7 pounds) in 15 minutes.
A butterfly can taste with its feet.
46% of American adults believe that the world
is less than 10,000 years old.
Leonardo da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for 15 years. By the time he died in 1519, he still didn’t consider it finished.
The "absolute threshold" in humans for vision is a candle flame, 30 miles away, on a dark, clear night.
Kangaroos have three vaginas.
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.
At least 30 million neurons in the entire visual cortex are activated by the single image of a house or face.
The "absolute threshold" in humans for touch is the wing of a bee falling from 1 centimeter onto your cheek.
The former Indian international cricketer Sachin Tendulkar first played for Pakistan before India. This incident happened during a practice match between the arch-rivals at the Brabourne Stadium in 1987, when he came on the field as a substitute fielder for Pakistan.
Golf was played on the moon. Back in February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 member Alan Shepard hit a ball with a six-iron, swinging one-handed as a result of his pressure suit.
Human hair is virtually indestructible.
The world’s population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.
You could remove a large part of your internal organs and still survive. The human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the missing organs wouldn’t kill you.
The universe is shaped like a vuvuzela.
A leech has 32 brains.
The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
The Largest known diamond in the universe is 4000 km (2500 miles) across. It is a white dwarf star called BPM 37093 that is around 50 light years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. It has been recorded that the center of white dwarfs crystallize into diamonds.
The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
The largest chocolate bar ever manufactured was in Italy in 2000 and the bar had a weight of 5000 pounds (or 2268 kilograms).
Bone is stronger than some steel.
A giraffe sleeps only two hours each day.
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.
In 2008, a man in Ohio was arrested for having sex with a picnic table.
The strings on tennis rackets used to be made with sheep intestines.
In 1819, the USA purchased florida from spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt.
On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on earth.
Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia. It turns over $178 billion a year and accounts for 7% of GDP.
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, one of the suspects was Picasso.
Venomous snakes can be dangerous even after they are dead. People have been "bitten" by snakes that were dead or thought to be dead.
Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.
Babies are always born with blue eyes.
In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.
As people age, their ears get larger. Ear circumference increases on average 0.51 millimeters per year.
The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
According to scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
Boxing legend Rocky Marciano invented the fax machine.
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day.
In the ancient Greek Olympics, wrestling matches were in the nude and a match did not end until one of the competitors became aroused.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
When asked why he didn't win gold in cross country at the 2010 olympics, norwegian skier Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset said "I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days".
The centre of the galaxy tastes like raspberries.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph.
Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
Light travels 18 million times faster than rain.
One third of Russians believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
If your eyes are blue, you share common ancestry with every other blue–eyed individual in the world.
Buckingham palace has over six hundred rooms.
Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
The human heart pumps enough blood in a lifetime to fill three supertankers.
An eagle's eyesight is eight times more powerful than a human. The human eye has some 200,000 vision cells and the eagles have 1.5 million.
A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. The average bladder holds about 400-800 cc of fluid but most people will feel the urge to go long before that at 250 to 300 cc.
Coughs clock in at about 60 mph.
The largest snowflake ever seen was 15 inches wide.
The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old.
Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
The number of neurons in the neocortex of females is 19.3 billion; in males, the number of neurons in the neocortex is 22.8 billion.
One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed.
A man in Mississippi was briefly imprisoned for “sorcery” in 1884 after throwing a curveball at a county fair.
If you drove a golf ball on the moon, it would travel nearly 4917 yards or 2.5 miles and would take 69.8 seconds for the ball to land. This can be achieved by a typical amateur golfer with an average swing speed of 90 mph or more.
There are dolphins that live in the Amazon River that are the color pink.
'Pronunciation' is the word which is most mispronounced in the English language!
The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant, is 69. She was a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11. This occurred during the first cricket test match between South Africa and Australia at Cape Town.
The original recipe for Coca-Cola contained a small amount of cocaine (about 22.5 milligrams of cocaine per gallon). Cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola in 1903.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
All the krispy kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the empire state building in only 2 minutes.
By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore.
At the first modern olympics, winners were awarded silver medals.
The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English player was bitten by a snake.
If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
The skin of an adult human covers about 18-20 square feet (~2 square meters) and weighs about 6 lb (2.7 kg).
A typical basketball has a lifespan of 10,000 bounces.
The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth.
One child goes blind every minute.
Mr. Jeffries, a Bassett Hound, is the dog with the longest ears. His ears measure 29.2 cm (11.5 in) in length.
The word 'time' is the most commonly used noun in english.
Babies are, pound for pound, stronger than an ox.