Heart facts

Your system of blood vessels – arteries, veins and capillaries – is over 60,000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice!

The adult heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute – approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day – throughout the body.

When attempting to locate their heart, most people place their hand on their left chest. Actually, your heart is located in the center of your chest between your lungs. The bottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of your chest.

The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.

In a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times

An adult woman’s heart weighs about 8 ounces, a man’s about 10 ounces

A child’s heart is about the size of a clenched fist; an adult’s heart is about the size of two fists.

Blood is about 78 percent water.

Blood takes about 20 seconds to circulate throughout the entire vascular system.

The structure of the heart was first described in 1706, by Raymond de Viessens, a French anatomy professor.

The electrocardiograph (ECG) was invented in 1902 by Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven. This test is still used to evaluate the heart’s rate and rhythm.

The first heart specialists emerged after World War I.

Interesting internet facts

TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS ONLINE
1993
– 4.6 million online in US

1995
– 9.6 million online in US
– 19% are shopping online

1996
– 10 million online in US (4% of US population)
– 8% of online users buying products via Internet

1997
– 11 million online in US
– 17% claim to be online buyers spending at least $50 a year
– 27% are shopping online

1998
– 19.1 million online in US
– 20 million users (”netizens”) worldwide say Internet is indispensable
– over 1.2 million users in Russia

1999
– 158 million online worldwide
– 58 million - 92 million online in US (depending on research source)
– average surfer got over 1,700 email messages
– 37 million use Web for e-commerce

2000
– 122.7 million online in US (source Yahoo! Internet Life)
– 180 million online in the US as of December 2000
– 2.1 billion online worldwide (out of 6 billion)
– Internet sales up 1,200% since 1997
– 500,000 new users to Internet every month
– 7 million US homes now getting 10 MB of two-way Internet access

2003
– 500 million users projected to be online
INTERNET STATS (as of Septermber 2000)
– 76 million in US surf Internet and use email daily
– 333.5 million e-mail accounts active in US (in 1998 it was 77 million)
– 46% of American workers use the Net for personal reasons
– 48% of engaged couples used Web to gather info on and plan weddings
– 55% of online gamblers are women
– 650 thousand new jobs created based on Internet contact
– 5,400 jobs cut between January and June 2000 due to dot-com failures
– 44% of online surfers have participated in an online auction this year
– 32% used the Net to keep up with and gather voting and election
information
– 18% relay on Internet “completely” or “very much” for daily news
– 68% say that e-mail and instant messaging has reduced long distance
phone bill
– 71% of men have shop online
– 58% of women shop online
– Most likely shoppers are males with at least Bachelor’s degree and
earning $75,000
– Companies are launching Web sites at record pace
– Over half of all businesses with Web sites maintain their own site
– advertising online has gone from $400 million in 1997 to $4.8 billion
in 2000
– 32 million households to bank online by 2003

OTHER INTERESTING STATS
– Total US business at end of 1996 - 6.22 million

– 50% of all businss owners are 35-54 years old
– 50% of these are 35-44 years old
– 70% are married
– 54% are home-based sole proprietorships
– 66% are first time businesses

DEMOGRAPHICS OF INTERNET USERS
2000
– 84% Caucasian (1999 - 76% Caucasian)
– 12 % African-American
– 3% Asian
– 1% mixed
–38% have Bachelor’s degree or higher (down from 47% in 1996)
–27% are relatively new to the Web
–60% are married or partnered (was 71% in 1997)
–Over 50% go online every day

TOP ONLINE ACTIVITIES
92% browse the Web
88% send/receive email
87% collect information about hobby or personal interest
81% collect product or service information
74% read the news
65% get business or work information
63% collect travel information
60% download images or photos
58% look up entertainment events
56% check the weather
xx% doing online investing

WHO’S BUYING WHAT (January 1999)

MEN
– men mostly buying computers, CDs and videos
– 12.6 million male shoppers research automobiles and buy auto parts
– 9.4 million men buy computers online

WOMEN
– number of women buyers up 80%
– 9.6 million women bought books, CDs and videos
– 6.9 million women buy clothing online
– 6.4 million women buy computers online

SMALL BUSINESS USE OF INTERNET
72% use for email and customer contact (up from 62% in 1999)
48% operate a Web site
28% sell goods or services online

WEB SITE STATS
Over 1 million active Web sites (over 80 million web pages)
– typical Web page 5k
– typical Web image 12k
– median site has 300 pages
– 50 sites have over 30,000 pages
– top 1,000 sites account for 50% of all web traffic

Do you know the Depths of Ocean???

Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean 35,827 ft



Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic Ocean 30,246 ft



Java Trench, Indian Ocean 24,460 ft



Arctic Basin, Arctic Ocean 18,456 ft

Hottest place on earth....

Count one wrong if you guessed Death Valley in California. True enough on many days. But El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 — the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.

Amazing facts

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

The idea for “tribbles” in “Star Trek” came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say “gesundheit” to a sneezer was never repealed.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don’t do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender’s system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force’s F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly
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You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly Putty was “discovered” as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It’s not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his “signature” on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Calvin, of the “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don’t play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog’s naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine.

Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost “an arm and a leg.”

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models’ turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

Although difficult, it’s possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon’s favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural “momentum” of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The “nine lives” attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Snake facts

Did you know that snake, like all reptiles are incapable of learning?
This is because they lack the enlarged Cerebral Hemispheres found in birds and mammals, this part of the brain controls learning and thought.

Did you know that snakes have no eyelids?
Instead of eyelids, snakes have a transparent scale protecting their eye.

Did you know that snakes are completely deaf?
All snakes are deaf to air born sounds but they do pick up vibrations in their jawbones and on their scent molecules on their tongue. These molecules are connected to the Jacobson's Organ.

Did you know that snakes move by using special muscles attached to their ribs?
If you put a snake on a smooth piece of glass, the snake will not be able to move because there is nothing to grab onto. The scales on their bellies also act as anchors.

Did you know that snakes can swallow big prey, three times bigger than their own mouth?
They are able to do this because they have special tendons in their mouth which can stretch very wide. On a couple of occasions, some snakes have swallowed whole Tigers. This would be equal to use swallowing a basketball!

Did you know that most snakes have over 200 teeth?
They use these teeth to hold their prey in place while eating. They cannot chew with these teeth because they are pointing backwards but they certainly can bite!

Do you know what snakes that climb trees are called?
Snakes that live or spend most of their time in trees are called Arboreal.

Did you know that snakes can't stop growing in their enclosures?
Most people think that if you put a snake in a small enclosure that it will stop growing or that it will grow so that it fits inside of the tank. This is not true.

The scientific study of reptiles and amphibians is called Herpetology!

People that study, keep and breed reptiles and amphibians are called Herpetologists!

Human Body facts

>> The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

>> Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour

>> The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

>> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

>> Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

>> It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

>> The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

>> The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

>> Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

>> When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

>> Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

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

>> Children grow faster in the springtime.

>> It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

>> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

>> Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

>> There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

>> If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

>> The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

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

>> In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

>> An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

>> The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.

>> The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

>> The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

>> Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

>> Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

>> Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

>> Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.

>> After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.

>> Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

>> The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).

>> A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.

>> The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

>> 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

>> The pancreas produces Insulin.

>> The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.

>> The human body is comprised of 80% water.

>> The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

>> Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

>> The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

>> You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

>> Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

>> Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

>> There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.

>> The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.

>> Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.

>> During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

>> Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

50 mind blowing food facts

1 Pineapple is a natural painkiller The fruit contains anti-inflammatory enzymes that bring pain relief from conditions such as arthritis, according to a study at Reading University.

2 Pomegranate juice could prevent a heart attack This wonder juice is believed to improve blood flow to the heart and lower blood pressure.

3 Onions are natural antibiotics They might make your breath pong but onions contain allicin, a powerful antibiotic that also protects the circulatory system.

4 Mushrooms can ward off colds They contain more of an immune-boosting antioxidant called ergothioneine than any other food, say researchers at Pennsylvania State University.

5 Beetroot can pep up your sex life It contains high levels of the mineral boron, which influences the production of sex hormones.

6 Blueberries can boost memory A study at Tufts University in Boston showed eating half a cup of this fruit regularly could delay age-related deterioration in co-ordination and short-term memory.

7 A pint is as good as red wine A pint of beer or stout is officially as beneficial as red wine for fighting cancer and heart disease, says scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario.

8 Eat chocolate, live longer Hurray! Harvard University scientists say that eating a couple of chocolate bars a week could extend your life by almost a year.

9 Grapefruit juice can stop medicine working If you're taking medication, avoid washing it down with grapefruit juice as there is evidence that it prevents some drugs being broken down.

10 You should never drink tea or coffee with meals Tannins in tea and coffee prevent absorption of certain nutrients. A cup of tea with a meal will halve the iron you get from it, whereas a glass of orange juice will double it.

11 Cherries can cure gout Cherries contain compounds that significantly reduce the chemicals in the body which cause joint inflammation.

12 Eating curry could help prevent Alzheimer's According to a report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a yellow pigment used in curry, curcumin, can stop amyloid plaques in the brain that cause the condition.

13 Sniffing a lemon could help you beat asthma The UK's 5.1 million asthmatics could find lemons ease their symptoms. Studies in rats found that breathing improved after they inhaled limonene, the chemical that gives lemons their smell.

14 Kiwi fruit can improve your eyesight This fuzzy fruit is a surprisingly good source of lutein, an antioxidant that protects your vision.

15 Garlic can cure mouth ulcers and verrucas Here's an old wives' tale that works: halve a clove of garlic, squeeze, and apply a drop of the juice to the offending growth at bedtime.

16 You can have too little salt Too much salt isn't good for us but not getting enough can trigger low blood pressure in those susceptible. Consult your GP before making any major diet changes.

17 Figs can delay brittle bone disease Good news for the three million osteoporosis sufferers in the UK - it is possible to slow its progress by eating calcium-packed figs.

18 Soya can mimic breast cancer drugs A team of Cambridge researchers discovered that a diet high in soya can have a similar effect to anti-cancer drug Tamoxifen.

19 Barbecued-food can cause cancer Eating meat that's chargrilled or burnt could lead to stomach, pancreatic, colon and breast cancer because it creates high levels of carcinogenic compounds.

20 Cinnamon can help diabetics Just half a teaspoon a day of this spice can significantly reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics, says US research.

21 Chillies can help you breath more easily Capsaicin, which occurs in chillies, shrinks the mucous membranes which can ease blocked noses and sinuses.

22 Watermelon is good for the prostate Men will be glad to know that the red flesh contains the antioxidant Lycopene, which helps keep the prostate gland healthy.

23 Coriander can lower your cholesterol levels This aromatic herb can reduce cholesterol levels and prevent heart problems.

24 Nibbling nuts can prevent blood clots Nuts boost nitric oxide, a compound that relaxes blood vessels and eases blood flow.

25 Banish bad breath with natural yoghurt A few spoonfuls of natural yoghurt can neutralise halitosis, according to Japanese researchers.

26 Artificial sweeteners can make you fat Research by US scientists shows that artificial sweeteners such as fructose change the body's metabolism, making it more likely you'll gain weight.

27 A caffeine hit can improve your love life If your libido's flagging, try a quick shot of espresso. Research shows a daily cup of coffee boosts blood circulation to vital areas.

28 Honey combats ulcers Manuka honey from New Zealand my be useful in preventing stomach ulcers, so have some in your morning porridge.

29 Olive oil can be as good for the heart as aspirin There is evidence that the main compound in olive oil, oleocanthal, contains the same properties as painkillers used to treat heart conditions.

30 Boozing can help you stay slim A recent study by US scientists discovered that women who enjoyed the "occasional" tipple were 27 per cent less likely than teetotallers to be obese.

31 Sesame seeds can lower blood pressure Try sprinkling on salad to reduce your blood pressure. They're also an excellent source of protein and calcium, iron and niacin.

32 Eating avocados can cheer you up These green fruits perk you up by boosting your serotonin levels, which can help to beat depression.

33 Fried eggs can cure a hangover A full English breakfast could be the ultimate hangover cure, thanks to the eggs. They're rich in cystine, an amino acid which helps purge toxins via the liver.

34 A daily cuppa could slash your risk of cancer Tea contains lots of flavonoids, disease-fighting substances that lower blood pressure, fight cancer and even prevent wrinkles. One cup a day may halve your risk of liver cancer.
35 Rhubarb can relieve constipation This red fruit, delicious in crumbles, contains a natural laxative.

36 Drinking green tea can prevent prickly heat Green tea is not just an excellent antioxidant - sipping it can help you avoid a painful bout of prickly heat.

37 Pasta may aid sleep Going to bed after eating carbohydrates can induce restful sleep. Complex carbs like whole wheat pasta and bread are most effective.

38 Semi-skimmed milk contains more calcium Half-fat milk is not only lower in calories than full-fat, it also contains more calcium, protein and B vitamins. However it does contain less vitamin A and E.

39 Breakfast can reduce risk of throat cancer According to scientists at Aberdeen University, eating breakfast reduces your risk of developing oesophageal cancer.

40 Eat ice cream for glossy hair A few scoops can do wonders for your crowning glory due to ice cream's high levels of Vitamin B2.

41 Kidney beans help you look younger The US Department of Agriculture ranked these as the third most antioxidant-rich food.

42 Oily fish can ward off arthritis Salmon, mackerel and so on can prevent the onset of arthritis. Two to four portions a week is recommended.

43 Flaxseed oil can help you stay trim Drizzling this oil over salads and soups can trick the body into feeling full and storing less fat.

44 Spinach can make kidney stones worse High-oxalate foods such as spinach encourage the formation of kidney stones, which occur when waste products in the urine crystallise.

45 Crusty bread may cut cancer Crusts have eight times the amount of cancer-fighting antioxidants called pronyl-lysine than the rest of the bread, according to a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

46 Boiling hot drinks can ruin your smile Drinking very hot fluids can cause your gums to recede, leaving them prone to infection. Allow drinks to cool before drinking.

47 Frozen vegetables are just as healthy as fresh Although generally speaking fresh is best, providing the fruit or vegetables are frozen immediately after picking, they will retain most of their nutrients and vitamins.

48 Drinking fruit juice can rot your teeth High fructose levels in fruit can cause tooth decay. Have them with meals or brush your teeth directly after drinking.

49 Fizzy drinks can lower your immunity The tartrazine found in fizzy drinks causes depletion of the body's zinc levels. Zinc plays a vital role in supporting our immune systems - 15mg a day is the recommended daily amount.

50 Teabags can fight cold sores Placing a cold, used teabag on a cold sore can reduce inflammation and infection.

facts that you may not know....

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 11 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19.John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same Airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

58 Interesting facts

1. Turtles have no teeth.
2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they'recrying.
5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest thingswill rise to the top.
7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest thingswill rise to the top.
8. Camels can spit.
9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steelnail, Glass pieces, etc
14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.
15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey
24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus
25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
26. Chess was invented in India.
27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game representedvirtues and the snakes indicated vices.
29. India has the most post offices in the world
30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH
31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
36. Twenty-Four- Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with thehands.
37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
43. Ants don't sleep.
44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time
47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in theirhair.
55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000, 000,000,000, 000 tons
56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere
58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy

Fantastic Animals Fact

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.

A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!

A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain “bad blood” from sick patients.

Lovebirds are small parakeets who live in pairs. Male and female lovebirds look alike, but most other male birds have brighter colors than the females.

Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs.

Cats have about 250 muscles in each ear.

African elephants are the largest and heaviest mammals on land. They weigh up to 14,000 pounds, and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day!

The inland Taipan is considered the most poisonous snake on the planet. One bite from this shy reptile, which is native to Australia, contains enough toxin to kill about 100 people.

The blue whale is the world's biggest animal, even larger than any known dinosaur. An average-sized adult is 80 feet long and weighs about 120 tons. This giant is also the loudest animal on Earth. Its call, which is louder than a jet, can be heard for hundreds of miles.

Giraffes not only have long necks, they also have enormous tongues, which can be 18 inches long.


Kangaroo can jump up to 30 feet in one leap!

Hippopotamuses are quick-footed giants. They can weigh up to 9,000 pounds and run up to 20 miles per hour.

The anopheles mosquito is the deadliest creature on Earth. It’s responsible for more than 300 million cases of malaria each year and causes between one and three million deaths.

The smallest fish in the world is believed to be the Paedocypris progenetica, which was recently discovered in Indonesia. It measures just over one-third of an inch long and has a see-through body.

Horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes.

The giant tortoise can live up to about 175 years. In fact, Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise and probably the world’s oldest creature, died in Australia in June 2006. She was 176 years old!

Jeans history fact

Jeans history Facts

Jeans have a long history, unlike most fashion fads, which tend to be fleeting. The fabrics denim and jean originated in Europe in the late 16th century.

18th century

American mills begin producing their own jean. Laborers wear the durable clothing.

19th Century

San Francisco dry goods merchant Levi Strauss produces “waist overalls”—the early name for jeans. They become a hit with gold miners eager to strike it rich in California.
In 1886, Strauss adds a brown leather patch on the back of his waist overalls. The label, which shows a pair of jeans being pulled between two horses, is still affixed to Levi’s jeans.

20th Century

American men, eager to imitate movie stars such as John Wayne and Gary Cooper, who play rugged, waist-overalls-wearing cowboys in 1930s Hollywood Westerns, proudly don the pants.

1940

American troops pack their waist overalls when they travel overseas to fight in World War II. The trend catches on in Europe. Lee and Wrangler make their own jeans to compete with Levi’s.

1950s

Jeans, no longer called waist overalls, became a symbol of the teenage rebel, particularly after James Dean wears them in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Some schools ban jeans.

1960s

Jeans dominate college campuses. Students began to personalize their jeans with paint, embroidery and patches.

1980s

Designer jeans, such as Sassoon, Jordache and Calvin Klein, emerge. Straight-leg, tight-fitting styles give jeans a new look.

1990s and on

Jeans are everywhere—on babies, parents, teachers and executives—and in a wide variety of styles, from boot cut to low-rise, bell bottoms to stone washed.

Wedding Beliefs

Flowers

Ancient Roman brides wore bunches of herbs under their veils as symbols of fidelity.
Orange blossoms are symbols of happiness and fertility because the orange tree blooms and bears fruit at the same time.

Roses are the flowers of love, making June, the month of roses, the most popular wedding month.
The early Greeks believed ivy to be the sign of everlasting love. It is still used to trim wedding bouquets.
Flower girls

Flower girls first appeared in wedding ceremonies in the Middle Ages. Two young girls—usually sisters—dressed alike, carried wheat before the bride in the procession. Later on, flowers replaced the wheat and it became customary for the flower girls to strew petals at the bride's feet.

Glass breaking

At the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony a wine glass is covered with a white cloth and laid on the ground. The groom breaks it by stomping on it. This symbolizes the destruction of the ancient Jewish temple. It is a reminder of the seriousness of marriage and that it cannot be reversed.

Honeymoon

This first vacation taken by a newly married couple dates back to very early times when a groom wanted to hide the wife he had captured.
The Teutons, an ancient German tribe, gave the honeymoon its name. After the wedding ceremony, honey was drunk until the moon waned.

Rice throwing

Rice is a symbol of fertility and long life. Guests throw it at the bride and groom as a wish for children and a good life. Other good luck charms are confetti, orange blossoms, corn, barley, chickpeas, and dates and figs to sweeten the marriage.

Rings

Engagement rings originated from the custom of exchanging rings to seal an important agreement.
Rings are circular and without end to symbolize eternal love.
A wedding ring is worn on the third finger of the left hand because it was believed that a vein or nerve ran directly from this finger to the heart.

Veils

Roman brides wore veils 2,000 years ago. Veils were worn as a sign of modesty and secrecy and were removed only by the husband after the wedding ceremony.
The first American woman to wear a wedding veil was Nelly Custis, Martha Washington's daughter. She wore the veil to please her husband-to-be, who had complimented her on how pretty she looked when seen through a lace-curtained window.
In some Eastern countries a veil is placed between the man and woman throughout the wedding ceremony. This ensures that they cannot see or touch one another until after the marriage.

Dating Facts

These are some of the ways teens date in other countries of the world.

Afghanistan

Dating is rare in Afghanistan because most marriages are arranged by parents, and schools are separate for boys and girls. The opportunities to meet are rare. Girls have a 7:00 P.M. curfew, while boys have an 11:00 P.M. curfew.

Australia

Most teens go out in large groups and don't pair off until they are 18 or 19 years old in Australia. Girls often ask out boys and pay for the date, too. Couples often go to dinner parties, barbecues, or the beach.
Central and South America

Dating is not allowed until the age of 15 here. When of age, most boys and girls date in large groups, going out together to weekend dance parties. When not dancing, teens gather at local clubs to eat and talk.

Europe

Dating is usually a group event in Europe. In Finland, as many as 30 teens may attend a movie together. Slumber parties are common in Italy and Switzerland, where teens gather for parties at a home and sleep there when the party is over.

In Spain teens join a pandilla, a club or a group of friends with the same interests, like cycling or hiking. Dating is done one-to-one and both girls and boys ask each other out and split the cost of the evening's entertainment.
In Russia dates take place at dances or at clubs where teens eat or chat with friends. In small towns, teens meet in the streets downtown or gather around a fountain.

Iran

It is against the law to date in Iran. Teens are separated until they are of marrying age, then their families introduce them to each other and sometimes a courtship follows.

Japan and Korea

In Japan and Korea, most high school students don't date or go to parties, but spend their time studying instead. Dating begins in college, when only boys do the asking and pay for the dates.

Seasons fact

Seasons

In the Northern Hemisphere, the year is divided into four seasons. Each season begins at a solstice or an equinox.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the dates (and the seasons) are reversed. The summer solstice (still the longest day of the year) falls around December 21, and the winter solstice is around June 21. So when it's summer in North America, it's winter in South America (and vice versa).

The spring equinox brings the start of spring, around March 21. At the equinox, day and night are of about equal length.

The summer solstice, which happens around June 21, has the longest daylight time. It's also the first day of summer.

Fall begins at the fall equinox, around September 21. Day and night are of about equal length.

The winter solstice, around December 21, has the shortest daylight time and officially kicks off winter.

Sex facts

During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.



Sex burns about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour

The condom made originally of linen was invented in the early 1500's. Casanova, the womanizer, used linen condoms.

The sperm count of an average American male compared to thirty years ago is down thirty percent

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

In 1952, Private George Jorgenson was the first person to receive a sex change. The US army soldier thought he was a woman that was trapped in a man's body. Christian Hamburger, a Danish doctor performed the sex change, and George Jorgenson changed his name to Christine Jorgenson.

Records

Quebec is the world’s leading exporter of asbestos.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers’ first flight.

Each day, 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped into Fresh Kills, NY, the largest landfill in the world.

Astronaut Shannon Lucis spent 188 days in a row in space. That’s the American record.

The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television, 3,000 times in a row.

The tallest man in the world was 8′11″ Robert Wadlow. He was just 22 when he died in 1949 from an infection caused by leg braces he needed to keep him on his feet.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!

The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

Building facts

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

The seven spikes atop the Statue of Liberty’s head represent the seven seas and seven continents of the world.

In 1885 the Home Insurance Company of Chicago was the tallest building in the world. It was only 9 stories tall.

The World Trade Center towers in New York City had two zip codes, 10047 and 10048, one for each building.

The inscription on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty reads “July 4, 1776″ in Roman numerals.

There’s 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.

Sports fact

More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.

Track athletes are most likely to break records later in the day, when their body temperatures are highest.

A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

There are 225 squares on a scrabble board.

Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands.

The SEC leads the NCAA in total major violations of rules since recording began in 1953 with 42 violations.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

A soccer ball has 32 panels.

Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.

A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.

General facts

The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.

Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The first company to use the modern-day aluminum can was Coors brewery, in 1959. The can the used however, was only 7 ounces!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

There is enough graphite in the average pencil to draw a line 35 miles long, that’s 45,000 words.

It would take half the people in the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 to run the nation’s telephone system if it were not computerized.

Food facts

The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Gum on postage stamps have from two to eight calories.

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.

Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year.

It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

Russia’s best selling candy bar: Snickers.

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

On average, each American ate 4.4 pounds of jelly last year.

Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), hamburgers cost more than new cars.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Famous people facts

Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing.

A golden razor removed from King Tut’s Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.

The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.

There was a person that paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.

The first American to have indoor plumbing was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1840.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”

Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with “rejoice.”

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkey from foil packets as their first meal on the moon.

Pamela Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada’s independence.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Mary Todd Lincoln claimed she was haunted during her life, and sewed money into clothes to foil the invisible thieves.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Samuel Colt, the famous gun maker, paid the equivalent of $400,000 in today’s money for his wife’s wedding dress and accessories.

David Prouse (the man inside the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars) spoke all of his lines in the first movie. He did not know that his voice was being dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones until he saw the finished movie.

Vincent Van Gogh once sliced off his ear and another time swallowed his own paint.

Inventors fact...

Desperate to increase veggie intake among children in Britain, researchers have developed chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and baked-bean-flavored peas.

Thomas Edison was deaf, but it was not all because of his condition at birth. It is true that he was born partially deaf, but he actually became totally deaf when he was conducting an experiment on the back of a train caboose which caused the train’s conductor to become very upset. The conductor then “boxed” Edison’s ears, meaning that he hit both of Edison’s ears at the same time. This blow caused him to become totally deaf for the rest of his life.

Samuel Morse, the inventor of the morse code, was a painter as well. One of his portraits is of the first governor of Arkansas and hangs in the governor’s mansion of that state.

The word ‘condom’ comes from Dr. Charles Condom (1630 - 1685)

Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia, schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.

Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the world’s fair in St. Louis, MO. US Patent # 3,477,070.

The Toilet Lid Lock, to prevent unauthorized access to the toilet.

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Folding money was invented by the Chinese, it was made of deerskin.

Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the rightfoot than the left.

The Roller Coaster was invented in the 17th century in Russia.

US Patent number 3,593,345 was granted for the “Whisper Seat”, a toilet seat with a soundproof lining so that noise won’t be heard by others.

When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!

Humans fact

The average adult male shaves off 1 lb of beard per year.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there though!

Men get hiccups more often than women do.

54% of Americans fold toilet paper neatly. 35% wad it. What about the other 11%?

Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.

A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream.

55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don’t like sex
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On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.

In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.

The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day; that’s about 2 1/2 years of your life down the drain.

The average American spends six months at red lights throughout his or her life.

By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.

An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.

Plants facts

The hurricane plant has holes in its leaves, which keep it from being destroyed by wind.

The canopy of a rainforest is so thick, only one percent of sunlight reaches the ground.

A living tree never stops growing.

40% of prescripition drugs dispensed in the U.S. have active ingredients derived from plants, animals or microorganisms, many of them from forests.

A banana is about 75 percent water.

The world’s fastest-growing plant is the giant water lily, which grows almost a foot a day.

Researchers recently sprouted a lotus seed known to be 1,288 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated.

The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect.

A single large tree can release up to 400 gallons of water into the atmosphere each day.

Rafflesia flowers attract pollinating flies by looking and smelling like rotten meat.

One acre of trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide per year to match that emitted by driving a car 26,000 miles.

The world’s largest flower is the Rafflesia arnoldi. It can grow to the size of an umbrella.

The saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than one inch in it’s first 10 years.

In the 1800’s an Eggplant was known as a “mad apple” and believed to be poisonous.

One cord of wood can make 7 and a half million toothpicks.

Mamals facts

A camel has a straight spine, despite its hump!

A newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit into a teaspoon.

Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

For the first time, the number of pet cats in the US now outnumbers the number of dogs, 60 million vs. 50 million.

The acid in a person’s stomach is corrosive enough to melt iron.

A female african elephant can be pregnant for almost 2 years.

A cow can give 100 quarts of milk per week.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly two feet wide.

Cats can make over 1,000 different vocal sounds, and dogs can make only about 10.

An anteater sticks its tongue in and out 100 times per minute to slurp up its food.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans: seven.

Some yaks’ milk is pink.

An elephant’s trunk can hold two gallons of water

Earth facts

5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year.

More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.

The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.

The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.

The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!

A diamond is the hardest natural substance.

Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.

The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.

The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.

There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.

Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.

Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!

Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.

Bird facts

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

Only male turkeys (Toms) gobble, females make a clicking noise.

Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different.

Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells.

Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

A hummingbird’s heart beats 1,260 times per minute.

Flamingos lay their eggs on top of volcano-shaped nests made of mud.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

California condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings.

The ostrich yolk is the largest single cell in the world.

In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

The pouch under a pelican’s bill holds up to 25 pounds of fish and water.

Aqua facts

Termites can’t digest wood, the protozoa in their stomach (they eat them when they are younger) actually are the devourers of the wood.

The world’s biggest clam weighs almost 500 pounds.

Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they’ll sink.

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.

A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one time.

More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal purposes.

The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.

Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each leg.

The eyes of a giant squid can be up to 15 inches across - the biggest in the world.

More types of fish swim in Brazil’s Amazon River than in the entire Alantic Ocean.

Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly. They never stop moving.

The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for an animal having the most taste buds.

A shrimp’s heart is located in it’s head.

Starfish have no brain.

Cartoon facts

Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.

Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.

Pluto (the dog from Disney) was originally called “Rover”.

Wilma Flinstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble’s maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

If Barbie (the doll) was life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.

Barbie?s (the doll) full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

The comic known as Peanuts was originally known as Li’lfolks.

The dog featured on a box of Cracker Jacks name is Bingo, the little boy is Jack.

Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”!

The first TV couple to sleep in the same bed was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Typing Facts

On average, a secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The words ‘’stewardesses'’ and ‘’reverberated'’ are the longest words (12 letters) typed with only the left hand.

The longest words that can be typed using only the right hand in proper typing form are ‘’lollipop” and “monopoly”.

Check this out, look at your keyboard, the only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters is “typewriter”.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

Health & Medicine Facts

• Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
• An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has 300.
• A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per hour.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
• You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
• Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
• Your feet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.
• Theres more sweat glands on your feet than any other part of your body. An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.
  The human brain is 80% water.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
• Laugh and you’ll burn up three and a half calories, no joke.
• An eyelash lives about 5 months.
• Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

Education facts

855,000,000 people in the world are illiterate. 70% of them are female.

Two-thirds of the world's children who receive less than four years of education are girls.

For every year beyond fourth grade that girls go to school, family size drops 20%, child deaths drop 10%, and wages rise 20%; yet, international aid dedicated to education is declining.

Worldwide, more than half the population of women over age 15 cannot read or write.

Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school.

Even when women have equal years of education, it does not translate into economic opportunities or political power.

While women in Nigeria enjoy 53% literacy, in Morocco 34%, and in Palestine 77%, their participation in politics and the economy lag far behind.

Globalization facts-Inequitable Distribution

Among the 4.4 billion people who live in developing countries

• -THREE-FIFTHS have no access to basic sanitation
• -Almost ONE-THIRD are without safe drinking water
• -ONE-QUARTER lack adequate housing
• -ONE-FIFTH live beyond reach of modern health services
• -ONE-FIFTH of the children do not get as far as grade five in school
• -ONE-FIFTH are undernourished

The 3 RICHEST PEOPLE in the world own assets that exceed the combined gross national product of ALL LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES and their 600 million people.

The richest 20% of the world’s population enjoys a share in global income that is 86 times that of the poorest 20%.

More than 1.2 billion people in the world live on less that $1 a day. More than 50% of them are children. Nearly 1 billion cannot meet their basic consumption requirements.

The assets of the 200 richest people are more than the combined income of 41% of the world's people.

A yearly contribution of 1% of their wealth or $8 billion could provide universal access to primary education for all.

Industrialized countries hold 97% of all patents, and global corporations hold 90% of all technology and product patents.

Over 80% of foreign direct investment in developing and transtition economies goes to just 20 countries, with China receiving the maximum share.

Debt relief for the 20 worst affected countries would cost between US $5.5 billion to $7.7 billion, LESS than the cost of ONE stealth bomber.