STRANGE NON PARANORMAL FACTS
We have put together a collection of unusual facts that have nothing to do with the paranormal. This is a look at our own very strange and quirky world. I hope you enjoy them.
* A dolphin sleeps with one eye open.
* A blue whale's tongue weighs more than a elephant.
* Bats always exit from the left side of a cave.
* Snakes are immune to their own venom.
* Cats cannot taste sweet things.
* A zebra is white with black stripes, not black with white stripes.
* To scare off enemies. a horned lizard squirts blood off its eyelids.
* The lung fish can live out of water for up to four years.
* A octopus has three hearts.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* Bees have five eyes.
* Honey bees kill more people than venomous snakes.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Female ants do all the work.
* There is enough poison in a poison-arrow frog to kill 2200 people.
* If a starfish was cut into pieces, each piece would become another starfish.
* Earth worms have five hearts.
* Bees are born fully grown.
* Jupiter is bigger than all other planets in the solar system combined.
* Hot water is heavier than cold water.
* The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years.
* Ninety per-cent of extinct species are birds.
* Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
* Coconuts kill more people than sharks per year.
* The only food that does not spoil is honey.
* There was just over 20 seconds of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
* It takes 72 muscles to speak one word.
* The earth travels around the sun at 107,000 km/h.
* A dairy cow will give about 200,000 glasses of milk within its lifetime.
* The search engine GOOGLE got its name from the word "GOOGOL", which is the number one with a
hundred zeros after it.
* The weight of all the insects on earth is twelve times greater than all the weight of all people on earth.
* The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.
* Three hundred-fifteen entries in the Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
* Outer space begins 80 km above the earth.
* Each year, chickens lay 400 billion eggs.
* The first time a toilet was flushed in a movie was in "Psycho".
* In Finland, Cinderella is known as "Tuna".
* Many of the details that is associated with Santa Claus were invented for the Coca Cola advertising
campaign in 1890.
* In Minnesota, it is illegal to mock skunks.
* In Toronto, Canada, it is illegal to ride a streetcar on Sundays after eating garlic.
* In Oklahoma, people who make faces at dogs may be fined and jailed.
* In New York, it is illegal to let your dog sleep in a bathtub.
* In Avignon, France, it is illegal for a flying saucer to land in the city.
* Athletes in ancient Olympics competed in the nude.
* Before 1800, separate shoes for the right and left were not designed yet.
* The first email was sent in 1972.
* The story of Cinderella originated in China.
* Coca Cola was originally green.
* Democracy began in Athens, Greece, 2500 years ago.
* Dentists in medieval Japan extracted teeth by pulling them out with their fingers.
* Europe is the only continent without a desert.
* Diamonds are flammable.
* The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
* Australia is the only country that takes up an entire continent.
* The centre of the earth is hotter than the surface of the sun.
* Eighty per-cent of people struck by lightning are men.
* Canned food was invented in 1813, but a practical can opener was not invented until 1870.
* You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a venomous spider.
* White light is a mixture of all the colours of the spectrum.
* More than a thousand new insects are discovered every year.
* Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat-flap.
* Hot water freezes more quickly than cold water.
* A woman's heart beats faster than a mans heart.
* Albert Einstein never wore socks.
* It is impossible to cry in space because of the lack of gravity.
* Your eyes use 25 per-cent of your brain power.
* The world's human population was only 5 million in 5000 BC.
* Nearly the entire human population was wiped out 75,000 years ago by a massive volcanic eruption
* Every year, 4000 people injure themselves with teapots.
* There are only 200 family names in China for a population of over a billion people.
* A corpse left out in the warm weather will be reduced to a skeleton in about 9 days.
* Tibetans put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
* Only 55 per-cent of Americans know that the sun is a star.
* A baby excretes its own weight in faeces every 60 hours.
* A blue whale's tongue weighs more than a elephant.
* Bats always exit from the left side of a cave.
* Snakes are immune to their own venom.
* Cats cannot taste sweet things.
* A zebra is white with black stripes, not black with white stripes.
* To scare off enemies. a horned lizard squirts blood off its eyelids.
* The lung fish can live out of water for up to four years.
* A octopus has three hearts.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* Bees have five eyes.
* Honey bees kill more people than venomous snakes.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Female ants do all the work.
* There is enough poison in a poison-arrow frog to kill 2200 people.
* If a starfish was cut into pieces, each piece would become another starfish.
* Earth worms have five hearts.
* Bees are born fully grown.
* Jupiter is bigger than all other planets in the solar system combined.
* Hot water is heavier than cold water.
* The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years.
* Ninety per-cent of extinct species are birds.
* Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
* Coconuts kill more people than sharks per year.
* The only food that does not spoil is honey.
* There was just over 20 seconds of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
* It takes 72 muscles to speak one word.
* The earth travels around the sun at 107,000 km/h.
* A dairy cow will give about 200,000 glasses of milk within its lifetime.
* The search engine GOOGLE got its name from the word "GOOGOL", which is the number one with a
hundred zeros after it.
* The weight of all the insects on earth is twelve times greater than all the weight of all people on earth.
* The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.
* Three hundred-fifteen entries in the Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
* Outer space begins 80 km above the earth.
* Each year, chickens lay 400 billion eggs.
* The first time a toilet was flushed in a movie was in "Psycho".
* In Finland, Cinderella is known as "Tuna".
* Many of the details that is associated with Santa Claus were invented for the Coca Cola advertising
campaign in 1890.
* In Minnesota, it is illegal to mock skunks.
* In Toronto, Canada, it is illegal to ride a streetcar on Sundays after eating garlic.
* In Oklahoma, people who make faces at dogs may be fined and jailed.
* In New York, it is illegal to let your dog sleep in a bathtub.
* In Avignon, France, it is illegal for a flying saucer to land in the city.
* Athletes in ancient Olympics competed in the nude.
* Before 1800, separate shoes for the right and left were not designed yet.
* The first email was sent in 1972.
* The story of Cinderella originated in China.
* Coca Cola was originally green.
* Democracy began in Athens, Greece, 2500 years ago.
* Dentists in medieval Japan extracted teeth by pulling them out with their fingers.
* Europe is the only continent without a desert.
* Diamonds are flammable.
* The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
* Australia is the only country that takes up an entire continent.
* The centre of the earth is hotter than the surface of the sun.
* Eighty per-cent of people struck by lightning are men.
* Canned food was invented in 1813, but a practical can opener was not invented until 1870.
* You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a venomous spider.
* White light is a mixture of all the colours of the spectrum.
* More than a thousand new insects are discovered every year.
* Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat-flap.
* Hot water freezes more quickly than cold water.
* A woman's heart beats faster than a mans heart.
* Albert Einstein never wore socks.
* It is impossible to cry in space because of the lack of gravity.
* Your eyes use 25 per-cent of your brain power.
* The world's human population was only 5 million in 5000 BC.
* Nearly the entire human population was wiped out 75,000 years ago by a massive volcanic eruption
* Every year, 4000 people injure themselves with teapots.
* There are only 200 family names in China for a population of over a billion people.
* A corpse left out in the warm weather will be reduced to a skeleton in about 9 days.
* Tibetans put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
* Only 55 per-cent of Americans know that the sun is a star.
* A baby excretes its own weight in faeces every 60 hours.
* Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.
* There are more than 1 million animal species on earth.
* The worlds termites outweigh the humans 10 to 1.
* The worlds first product to have a bar-code was Wrigley's chewing gum.
* If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
* The sun is 330,000 times larger than the earth.
* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
* A lighting bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the suns surface.
* Most lipstick contain fish scales.
* The body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells every second.
* There are 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
* You are born with 300 bones but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
* There are more than 1 million animal species on earth.
* The worlds termites outweigh the humans 10 to 1.
* The worlds first product to have a bar-code was Wrigley's chewing gum.
* If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
* The sun is 330,000 times larger than the earth.
* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
* A lighting bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the suns surface.
* Most lipstick contain fish scales.
* The body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells every second.
* There are 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
* You are born with 300 bones but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
References:
www.Strange facts.com
Freaky Facts by Hinkler Books 2009. (My daughters Christmas present)
www.Strange facts.com
Freaky Facts by Hinkler Books 2009. (My daughters Christmas present)