Fun Interesting Facts

....will leave you scratching your head in wonder!!

Do you know any of these fun interesting facts?

• Thomas Edison, the man who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

• People will spend about 2 weeks of their lives at traffic lights.

• A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue because it is 21 inches long. (This is one of the fun interesting facts that makes me giggle. I can just picture this.)

• If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result. (Who would ever take the time to figure that out?)

• The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.

• The original name for butterfly was flutterby. (Makes perfect sense to me.)

• On average, a person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

• A rat can live longer without water than a camel.

• Hummingbirds cannot walk. (Never noticed that before.)

• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

• If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

• An elephant cannot jump.

• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. (It would have taken me years to write a sentence like that.)

• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.(Wow!)

• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.(Good lessen to learn for the next time I'm around quick sand. Hmm...?)

• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off- it will die from starvation.

• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. (I would not have guessed that.)

• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

• A snail can sleep for three years. (Can you imangine waking up three years from now? How different things would be.)

• In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

• Cat urine glows in the dark under a black light.
  
  
  

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• A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (Now that's scary!)

• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

• Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. (Good reason not to clean my windows.)

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (I've heard that before.)

• The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. (Not me.)

• One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water. (How sad.)

• 30% of chinese adults live with their parents.

• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find any food. (What??)

• Eskimo ice cream is neither creamy or icy.

• Their are 336 dimples on a regulation size golf ball.

• 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 (Did it take someone their whole life to figure that out or did it happen by accident?)

• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt.

• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it. (So, if I eat a ton of celery, I will be skinny in no time.)

• It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth. (That's a long time.)

• The human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a sec ond. (OK, I'll be back in a jiffy.)

• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but clear. (I don't know if I believe that or not.)

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years. (What a stomach ache he must have had.)

• A dragonfly lives only 24 hours. (I knew that.)

• Butterflys taste with their feet. (Do they walk with their tongue?)

• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

• A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

  
  
  
  I hope you enjoyed these funny fun facts as much as I did. If you have any fun interesting facts you would like to share, I would like to hear from you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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