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Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
Slugs have four noses.
Sharks can live up to 100 years .
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency .
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002 .
Octopus have three hearts.
If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
Most cats are left pawed.
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
Bone is five times stronger than steel.

While sneezing, if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears
never stop growing.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a
few weeks.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a
carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After
weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe
leaving her mentally retarded

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang
yourself."

The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive
double letters.

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

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the english language.

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction

China has more English speakers than the United States .

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


Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our
bodies.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average
man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his
lifetime.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at
approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive
proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space.
However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a
microwave in the building.

Strange-but-real organizations that you might want to leave off of your
resume: The Institute of Totally Useless Skills , The International
Association of Sand Castle Builders, National Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Mushrooms, Cookie Cutter Collectors Club, International
Correspondence of Corkscrew Addicts.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three
times each morning.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the
combined wealth of the fourty-eight poorest nations.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.