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Did U Know Facts..!

Here’s a selection of some of the strange facts we’ve discovered so far…

 

Over your lifetime you will produce enough spit to fill a swimming pool.


When Eskimo babies have colds, their mothers suck the snot out of their noses.


Every year, 14 creepy crawlies find their way into your mouth while you sleep. And yes, you do swallow most of them.

If your head is chopped off, your brain will keep functioning for about 15 seconds!

 

Shrimp can only swim backward

 

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps

 

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth

 

There is 63,360 inches in a mile

 

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year

 

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day

 

The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year

 

The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime

 

A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet

 

A turkey can run at 20mph

 

The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin

 

Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time

 

A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones

 

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water

 

A crocodile cannot move its tongue

 

The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger"

 

The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses

 

The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886

 

The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano

 

The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899

 

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon

 

The Capitol building in Washington DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year

 

In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

Russians celebrate their October Revolution in November.

 

The average person sheds about one-and-a-half pounds of skin each year.

 

The first image ever transmitted on TV was Felix the Cat.

 

The 1912 Olympics was the last time gold medals were made entirely of gold.

 

Isaac Newton was an ordained priest.

 

An hour of typing burns 110 calories.

 

Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.

 

The average woman uses about 7,000 words a day. Men use around 2,000.

 

The original title of the movie Pretty Woman was 3000. That's the amount of money Richard Gere's character pays Julia Roberts' character for a week of companionship.

 

A group of lizards is called "lounge."

 

Frank Sinatra's epitaph reads, "The best is yet to come."

 

In Kansas, it is illegal to shoot rabbits from a motorboat.

 

Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.

 

An atom bomb accidentally fell from a U.S. plane over New Mexico in 1957. It failed to detonate.

 

"Zoophobia" is the fear of animals.

 

Slugs have four noses.

 

The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.

 

The female ferret is called a Jill.

 

In horse racing, the favorite wins less than 30% of the time.

 

Hamsters can have sex 75 times a day.

 

Women prefer blue bedrooms more than other colors. Men prefer white bedrooms.

 

No other word can be made by rearranging the letters of the word "anagram."

 

Pepper is the top-selling spice in the world.

 

The best badminton shuttles are made from the feathers from the left wing of a goose.

 

An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

 

The Three Stooges were originally called Three Lost Souls.

 

The average clock's snooze function lasts nine minutes.

 

Donald Duck's father is named Quackmore Duck.

 

Actor Andy Garcia was a Siamese twin.

 

More than 110,000 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas each year.

 

The average person wears a pair of pants for 22.6 months before getting rid of them.

 

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

 

Over the course of their lifetime, the average person will own 11 pieces of luggage.

 

During the 1830s, the Taj Mahal was scheduled to be torn down.

 

The average sink contains 3.2 unwashed dishes.

 

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by gently rubbing their feet.

 

Popeye is 34 years old and weighs 158 pounds.

 

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

 

Hair grows more slowly at night.

 

Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.

 

Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.

 

The average man spends about 3,500 hours of his life shaving, removing about 30 feet of whiskers.

 

Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers.

 

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

 

The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.

 

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.

 

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

 

Each employee at Ben & Jerry's headquarters gets three pints of free ice cream a day.

 

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.

 

When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, the drive-through line was seven miles long.

 

The average person speaks 125 to 150 words per minute.

 

Hares and rabbits never mate with each other.

 

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.

 

There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

 

There are 3,000 types of lice.

 

The first Olympic games to be televised were the 1936 games in Berlin.

 

Room temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

All spiders are cannibals.

 

Seven percent of Americans think Elvis is still alive.

 

Elephant trunks can hold four gallons of water.

 

Cats have over 100 vocal chords

 

Camel's milk does not curdle

 

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

 

A hummingbird weighs less then a penny

 

Shrimp can only swim backward

 

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps

 

Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day

 

Cats can hear ultrasound

 

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth

 

There is 63,360 inches in a mile

 

11% of people in the world are left-handed

 

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year

 

The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days

 

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime

 

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day

 

The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year

 

The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime

 

A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet

 

A turkey can run at 20mph

 

The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin

 

Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time

 

The average sink contains 3.2 unwashed dishes.

 

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by gently rubbing their feet.

 

Popeye is 34 years old and weighs 158 pounds.

 

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

 

Hair grows more slowly at night.

 

Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers.

 

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

 

The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.

 

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.

 

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

 

Each employee at Ben & Jerry's headquarters gets three pints of free ice cream a day.

 

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.

 

When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, the drive-through line was seven miles long.

 

The average person speaks 125 to 150 words per minute.

 

Hares and rabbits never mate with each other.

 

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.

 

There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

 

There are 3,000 types of lice.

 

The first Olympic games to be televised were the 1936 games in Berlin.

 

Room temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

All spiders are cannibals.

 

The first "tuxedo" was worn to a formal affair in Tuxedo Park, NY, in 1886.

 

In October 1956, "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley hit number one. The song made record industry history by becoming the first single to have one million orders before its release!

 

The human body uses more than 300 muscles to balance itself when standing still. And on each human foot there are about a trillion
bacteria.

A typical super-sized ocean liner, such as the QE2, moves only about six inches in the water for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

 

Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.

 

It has been proven that frequent laughter helps control pain, lower blood pressure, and relieve stress.

In Iceland, Domino's Pizza has a reindeer sausage pie on its menu.

 

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

 

If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.


Many prominent Frenchmen, including 18 kings, share the name Louis.

New York City, named by Americans as the most dangerous, least attractive, and rudest city in a recent poll, is also, strangely enough,
Americans' top choice as the city where they would most like to live or visit on vacation.

 

The odds of someone winning a lottery twice in four months is about one in 17 trillion. But Evelyn Marie Adams won the New Jersey lottery in this period during 1985-86.

 

 In Thailand, the left hand is considered unclean, so you should not eat with it.

 

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

 

It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church

 

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