Okay Class, A Few Interesting Facts.... some are kinda gross, & some are funny

[TruckDriver]

Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed on one line of the keyboard

The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

There's more chickens than people in the world.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime while asleep at night.

The Chilean red-leg tarantula pulls hairs from it's back and throws them like daggers at attackers.

Female black widow venom is 15 times stronger than a Rattlesnake's

Some south american tarantulas can grow as large as dinner plates.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

The U.S. Capitol Building has 365 steps -- one representing each day of the year (except of course leap year).

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Cat urine glows under blacklight.

Cats spend about 70% of the day sleeping and 15% grooming.

A 4month old kitten followed mountain climbers to the top of the matterhorn in the alps- 14,91 feet!

A cat has 230 bones in it's body.

The biggest cat was a male tabby that weighed a whopping 46pounds.

Americans eat about 675 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving.

Domestic turkeys can't fly. Wild turkeys, however, can reach
flight speeds of 55 miles per hour.

People from California eat more turkey than people from any
other state do.

U.S. Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at Harvard.

Every 5 seconds someone dies and every 3 seconds someone is born.

A pig's orgasm lasts 15 minutes.

To initiate sex a mantis must rip off the male's head.

In tokyo,Japan you can buy a toupee for your dog.

The chow chow, which has a purple tongue is sacred in china.

Some puppies wear braces to straighten their teeth.

The smallest dog ever was a 4-ounce yorkshire terrier that stood 1 1/2 inches tall.

Rabbits take about 18 naps a day. (I must be part rabbit the way I nap... I know I like to f%#* like it though )

Gold fish remember better in cold water than in warm water.
  
Statistically someone within 200 miles of you has had direct contact with a monster or other unexplainable being.

Most ghosts appear within 6 feet of people.

Most ghosts appear for less than a minute-- often for less than 15seconds.

Most ghost sightings take place between 4 a.m and 6am.

The most frequently haunted part of a house is the staircase.

Someone on earth reports seeing a UFO every 3minutes.

President abraham lincoln had a dream he was assanintated ten days before in occurred.

The world's total weight of ants is greater than the weight of all the other animals combined.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
  
A Hercules beetle can haul a 5-pound weight. A person as strong as that could lift a fully loaded dump-truck.   

Honeybees have hairs on their eyes.

Cockroaches fart every 15 minutes   

Hard rock music makes termites chew through wood twice as fast as usual.

Mosquitos are more likely to bite you if you've eaten a banana.

A person who doesn't brush or floss can have as much as 1 billion bacteria on each tooth.

On most human hands, the length of the middle finger is exactly the same as the width of the hand.

You blink about 84 million times every year.

In your lifetime, you will breathe in enough air to fill 2 1/2 large blimps.

A quarter of the 206 bones in your body are in your feet.

Your largest salivary gland will secrete about 25,000 quarts of saliva in your lifetime.

Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.

You are a quarter-inch taller when you wake up tan when you go to bed. The cartilage between your backbone's vertebrae gets squished when you walk around.

The average elevator travels about 10,00 miles a year.

Raw eggs won't spin but cooked ones will.

The first letter of each of the continents's names is the same as it's last.... AmericA, EuropE, AsiA, AfricA, AustraliA, AntarcticA.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Lightning has cooked potatos growing in fields.

Some valleys in Antarctica haven't had rain for 2 million years.

In Yakutsk,Siberia the temperature is 46*-Zero. So cold, milk freezes as soon as it comes out of a cow. It is delivered in round chunks, not bottles.

During a 1895 hail storm in mississippi, an ice ball contianing a turtle fell to the ground.

Charles dickens always faced north when he slept.

Charles Osborne had hiccups for 69 years.

Ancient roman plastered their heads with herbs and earthworks to keep gray hair away.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

Queen Elizabeth I only took one bath a month.

More monopoly money is made a year than all the real paper money printed throughout the world.

If you stacked one million dollars in $1.00 bills the stack would weight 2,050.8 pounds.

A stack of $1 bills one mile high would be worth more than $14 million

The U.S government printed $500, 1,000,and 10,000 bills but discontinued them in 1969 do to lack of use.

If you had $10 billion and spent one dollar every second of the day it would take you 317 years to go broke.

In the 1920s New York Investor John D. Rockefeller was the world's richest man. He was worth $900 million equal to about 189 billion today).

Bill gates today's wealthies man is worth 51 billion.

Today coins are stamped with the words E Pluribus Unum.-(Out of Many,one) in 1727, pennies had simpler motto:"Mind your own business".

Dog teeth were used as money in New Guinea's Admiraltry Islands.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Ice cream cones were invented by a waffle maker in 1904 world's fair he wrapped hiw waffles into cone shapes after an ice-cream vendor ran out of bowls.

Proposed ice-cream flavors that have never made it :advocado ice, prunella whirl, liver n' onions.

One-third of all ice cream sold in the U.S.A is vanilla.

Montezuma, an aztec emperor who ruled in mexico in the early 1500s fed his 600 noblemen living in his palave 2,000 jars of chocolate a day.

In a lifetime the average person eats about 35,000 cookies and 1,500 pounds of candy.

In 1900 each american drank about 12 sodas a year, now it is nearly 600 cans a year.

[TruckDriver]

PENGUINS HAVE AN ORGAN ON THEIR FOREHEAD BETWEEN THE EYES THAT DE-SALINIZES WATER. IT CAN BE SEEN ONLY AS A SMALL HOLE.

ELEPHANTS CAN'T JUMP

AN ELEPHANT CAN SMELL WATER 3 MILES AWAY

AN ELEPHANT MAY CONSUME 500 POUNDS OF HAY AND 60 GALLONS OF WATER IN A SINGLE DAY

ALL ELEPHANTS WALK ON TIP-TOE BECAUSE THE BACK PORTION OF THEIR FOOT IS MADE OF NO BONE JUST ONLY FAT

SHEEP IN SCOTLAND FAINT IF YOU JUMP OUT AT THEM 

BATS ALWAYS EXIT A CAVE TO THE LEFT

A GIRAFFE CAN CLEAN IT'S EARS WITH IT'S 21 INCH TOUNGE

A HIPPO CAN OPEN IT'S MOUTH WIDE ENOUGH TO FIT A 4 FOOT CHILD INSIDE (so could my Ex-wife )

A HIPPO CAN RUN FASTER THAN A MAN.

A HORSE CAN SLEEP STANDING UP

A HORSE HAS 35 SQUARE FEET OF SKIN

A HOUSE FLY ONLY LIVES FOR 2 WEEKS

A HUMMINGBIRD WEIGHS LESS THAN A PENNY

A JELLYFISH IS 95% WATER

A KANGAROO CAN HOP 30 FEET AT ONCE

A KANGAROO CAN'T JUMP UNLESS IT'S TAIL IS ON THE GROUND

A LARGE SWARM OF LOCUSTS CAN EAT 80,000 TONS OF CORN A DAY

A LION'S ROAR CAN BE HEARD A MILE A WAY

A MALE EMPEROR MOTH CAN SMELL A FEMALE EMPEROR MOTH UP TO 7 MILES AWAY.

A 6 POUND SEA-HARE CAN LAY 40,000 EGGS IN A SINGLE MINUTE

A BLIND CHAMELEON CAN STILL CHANGE COLOURS TO MATCH ITS ENVIRONMENT

A BLUE WHALE'S HEART ONLY BEATS NINE TIMES PER MINUTE.

A CAT USES IT'S WHISKERS TO DETERMINE IF A SPACE IS TOO SMALL TO SQUEEZE THROUGH

A CHAMELEON'S TONGUE IS TWICE THE LENGTH OF ITS BODY

THE WEDDELL SEAL, CAN TRAVEL UNDERWATER FOR SEVEN HOURS WITHOUT SURFACING

A COCKROACH CAN LIVE SEVERAL WEEKS WITH IT'S HEAD CUT OFF

A COW PRODUCES 200 TIMES MORE GAS A DAY THAN A PERSON

A CROCODILE ALWAYS GROWS NEW TEETH TO REPLACE THE OLD ONES

A CROCODILE CAN'T MOVE IT'S TONGUE

A CROCODILE WILL SOME TIMES EAT OTHER CROCODILES

A CROCODILE'S TONGUE IS ATTACHED TO THE ROOF OF IT'S MOUTH
 
A FEMALE FERRET WILL DIE IF IT GOES INTO HEAT AND CANNOT FIND A MATE

A RHINOCEROS' HORN IS MADE OF COMPACTED HAIR

A RODENTS TEETH NEVER STOPS GROWING

A SHARK CAN DETECT ONE PART OF BLOOD IN 100 MILLION PARTS OF WATER

A SHARK CAN GROW A NEW SET OF TEETH IN A WEEK

A SNAIL CAN HAVE ABOUT 25,000 TEETH

A SPECIES OF EARTHWORM IN AUSTRALIA GROWS UP TO 10 FEET IN LENGTH

A STARFISH CAN TURN ITS STOMACH INSIDE OUT

A STRAND FROM THE WEB OF A GOLDEN SPIDER IS AS STRONG AS STEEL WIRE OF THE SAME LENGTH

A TYPICAL DOUBLE-BED MATTRESS CONTAINS AS MANY AS 2 MILLION HOUSE DUST MITES (DEMODEX FOLLICULOROM) 

A RAT CAN LAST LONGER WITHOUT WATER THAN A CAMEL

A WOODCHUCK ONLY BREATHES 10 TIMES DURING HIBERNATION

ABE LINCOLN'S MOTHER DIED WHEN THE FAMILY DAIRY COW ATE POISONOUS MUSHROOMS AND SHE DRANK THE MILK

YOU CAN TELL A TURTLE'S SEX BY IT'S SOUND. MALES GRUNT, FEMALES HISS

ALL POLAR BEARS ARE LEFT-HANDED

POLAR BEARS ARE THE ONLY MAMMALS WITH HAIR ON THE SOLES OF THEIR FEET

EARTH WORMS ARE HERMAPHRODITES

A GOLDFISH KEPT IN DARK ROOMS WILL TURN WHITE

IF A FROG'S MOUTH IS OPEN FOR TOO LONG IT WILL SUFFOCATE

SHARKS ARE IMMUNE TO CANCER

AFTER EATING, A HOUSE FLY REGURGITATES ITS FOOD AND EATS IT AGAIN
 
AN OSTRICH'S EYE IS BIGGER THAN IT'S BRAIN

ANTEATERS PREFER TERMITES TO ANTS

ARMADILLOS CAN BE HOUSE BROKEN

ARMADILLOS ARE THE ONLY ANIMAL BESIDES HUMANS THAT CAN GET LEPROSY

ARMADILLOS CAN HAVE UP TO FOUR BABIES AT A TIME AND THEY ARE ALWAYS ALL THE SAME SEX

IT TAKES SEVEN YEARS FOR A LOBSTER TO WEIGH ONE POUND

AN IGUANA CAN STAY UNDER WATER FOR 28 MINUTES

THE 2 FOOT LONG BIRD CALLED A KEA THAT LIVES IN NEW ZEALAND LIKES TO EAT THE STRIPS OF RUBBER AOUND CAR WINDOWS

THE HONEY BADGER CAN WITHSTAND HUNDREDS OF AFRICAN BEE STINGS THAT WOULD KILL ANY OTHER ANIMAL

CATS CAN HEAR ULTRASOUND

THE CHEETA IS THE ONLY CAT THAT CAN'T RETRACT IT'S CLAWS

THE SUMATRAN TIGER HAS THE MOST STRIPS OF ALL THE TIGER SUBSPECIES, AND THE SIBERIAN TIGER HAS THE LEAST

KIWI BIRDS ARE BLIND, THEY HUNT ONLY BY SMELL
 
GIRAFFES HAVE NO VOCAL CHORDS

A FULLGROWN BEAR CAN RUN AS FAST AS A HORSE

THE MOLA MOLA OR OCEAN SUNFISH LAYS UP TO 5 000 000 EGGS AT ONE TIME

STAG BEETLES HAVE STRONGER MANDIBLES THAN HUMANS

RHINOS ARE PART OF THE SAME FAMILY AS HORSES, AND THOUGHT TO HAVE INSPIRED THE MYTH OF THE UNICORN
 
DOGS AND HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT HAVE PROSTATES

THE PLACEMANT OF A DONKEY'S EYES IN IT'S HEAD ENABLES IT TO SEE ALL FOUR FEET AT ONE TIME

CAMELS HAVE THREE EYELIDS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE BLOWING SAND

EMUS AND KANGAROOS CAN'T WALK BACKWARDS

CATS HAVE OVER 100 VOCAL SOUNDS WHILE DOGS ONLY HAVE 10

HAMSTERS LOVE TO EAT CRICKETS

MANY HAMSTERS BLINK ONE EYE AT A TIME

THE UNDERSIDE OF A HORSE'S HOOF IS CALLED A FROG

ROOSTERS CAN'T CROW IF THEY CAN'T FULLY EXTEND THEIR NECK

ALL SNAKES ON THE ISLAND OF TASMANIA ARE POISONOUS

THE FINGERPRINTS OF KOALA BEARS ARE ALMOST IN INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THOSE OF HUMANS, SO MUCH THAT THEY COULD BE CONFUSED AT A CRIME SCENE

EMUS HAVE DOUBLE PLUMED FEATHERS AND THEY LAY EMERALD/FOREST GREEN EGGS

THERE IS ENOUGH IRON IN A HUMAN BEING TO MAKE ONE SMALL NAIL

WOMEN BLINK NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH AS MEN

THE WHITE PART OF YOUR FINGER NAIL IS CALLED THE LUNULA

THE LIFESPAN OF A TASTEBUD IS TEN DAYS
 
ANNE BOLEYN HAD SIX FIGERNAILS ON ONE HAND, BUT ONLY HAD FIVE FINGERS ON THAT HAND. SHE HAD A SMALL EXTRA NAIL COMING OUT OF THE SIDE OF HER FINGER.

2 MOST COMMON SURGERIES ARE BIOPSIES AND CESAREAN SECTIONS

[moparguy01]

20% of all people make up 75% of all "facts"

[Lowprofile]

Looks like you got some free time on your hands??

[Afflyer]

Man, that's just what I was thinking!

[TruckDriver]

Actually, I got this because of a link on my Yahoo home page. Then I just cut and pasted them

[kab69440]

Here's another little known fact:
Chargers are the coolest cars ever!

[69charger2002]

AMEN!

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Who are these people who can fall asleep in 7 minutes?  And if I kill them out of jealousy, would you blame me?

[73dodge]

Who are these people who can fall asleep in 7 minutes?  And if I kill them out of jealousy, would you blame me?

I am one, 

my wife says we can get into to bed at the same time and sometimes I am sound asleep before she can get the covers up and turn to give me a good night kiss.

[Charger_Fan]

Who are these people who can fall asleep in 7 minutes?   And if I kill them out of jealousy, would you blame me?

I can do it!
















But I have to suck down a few sudz first.

[cudaken]

 Fall asleep? I just pass out.


                                     Cuda Ken