* Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
* Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat.
* Scientists have tracked butterflies that travel over 3,000 miles.
* To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
* The population is expected to rise to 10.8 billion by the year 2080.
* You breathe on average about 8,409,600 times a year
* More than 60,000 people are flying over the United States in an airplane right now.
* Hamsters run up to 8 miles at night on a wheel.
* A waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down.
* A church in the Czech Republic has a chandelier made entirely of human bones.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
* During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
* You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning
* The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
* 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.
* Gorillas burp when they are happy
* In New York, it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.
* Apple launched a clothing line in 1986. It was described as a “train wreck” by others.
* A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring, and found it 16 years later- growing on a carrot in her garden.
* The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is actually greater than your chance of winning.
* The toothpaste “Colgate” in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself”
* Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight.
* Drying fruit depletes it of 30-80% of its vitamin and antioxidant content
* Blueberries will not ripen until they are picked.
* About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
* Ketchup was used as a medicine back in the 1930’s.
* Honey never spoils.
* About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
* A hard boiled egg will spin, but a soft-boiled egg will not.
* Avocados are poisonous to birds.
* Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
* The number of animals killed for meat every hour in the U.S. is 500,000.
* If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples!
* More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
* The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
* The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
* There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
* Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.
* In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
* One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
* If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.
* A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
* A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
* There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
* The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
* Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
* Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
* You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
* The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
* A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
* Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
* New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.
* A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
* Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.
* It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.
* 10% of the World’s population is left handed.
* A broken clock is right two times every day.
* Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”
* A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.
* A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in.
* Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
* If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
* Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer
* There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year.
* Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
* 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
* A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out.
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