* Greenland is the largest island in the world.
* 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.
* Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
* The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
* Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
* Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their fingerprint.
* A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
* Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10
* Emus and kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
* The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can’t fly.
* The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.
* A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
* A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
* A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
* Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
* There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
* 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
* Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
* There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
* Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
* Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
* The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
* Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
* The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely to fall asleep.
* You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.
* Women have twice as many pain receptors on their body than men. But a much higher pain tolerance.
* There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
* For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.
* The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.
* A flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. That is the equivalent of a human jumping the Empire State Building.
* A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
* Saturn’s density is low enough that the planet would float in water.
* 68% of the universe is dark energy, and 27% is dark matter; both are invisible, even with our powerful telescopes. This means we have only seen 5% of the universe from earth.
* The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
* In the past 20 years, scientists have found over 1,000 planets outside of our solar system.
* There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
* If a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ.
* If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty.
If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die.
* On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
* You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so that they do not drift apart.
* The Golden Poison Dart Frog’s skin has enough toxins to kill 100 people.
* The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.
* The giraffe’s tongue is so long that they can lick the inside of their own ear.
* Cats have 32 muscles in each of their ears.
* Butterflies taste their food with their feet.
* A tarantula can live without food for more than two years.
* The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than most elephants!
* Ever wonder where the phrase “It’s raining cats and dogs” comes from? In the 17th century many homeless cats and dogs would drown and float down the streets of England, making it look like it literally rained cats and dogs.
* Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures and have demonstrated the ability to do simple mathematical calculations.
* A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
* The word “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “A tribe of hairy women.”
* Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
* In New York, it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.
* In 2006 someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price got up to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
* It is considered good luck in Japan when a sumo wrestler makes your baby cry.
* A woman from California once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch, because the Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”
* Apple launched a clothing line in 1986. It was described as a “train wreck” by others.
* In Japan, crooked teeth are considered cute and attractive.
* A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring, and found it 16 years later- growing on a carrot in her garden.
* Donald duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
* Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight.
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