55 odd facts
1. The average human body contains enough iron to make a 7.62cm nail.
2. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 metres in very quiet conditions.
3. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or recieved a telephone call.
4. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
5. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windhield wipers were all invented by women.
6. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
7. Charlie Chaplin once won thrid prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
8. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
9. No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver or purple.
10. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 0.1 of a calorie.
11. The human brain is about 85% water.
12. The poisenous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
13. The modern flushing toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.
14. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
15. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
16. The pupil of an eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.
17. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
18. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up to the sky.
19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
20. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
21. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after only 38 minutes.
22. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
23. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
24. Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks
they're an ox.
25. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
26. Mosquito repellents don't repel. The spray blocks the mosqitos sensors so they don't know you're there.
27. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
28. Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.
29. The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
30. A Zebra is white with black stripes not black with white stripes.
31. The total length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over thirty metres.
32. On average, 13 people die per year from vending machines falling on them.
33. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all of the world's telephones put together.
34. The catfish has more than 27,000 taste buds.
35. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to supress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
36. The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia.
37. Cats have better memories than dogs.
38. Starfish don't have brains.
39. The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five or nine items or digits. This is one reason that telephone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
40. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
41. You're more likely to be a target for mosquitos if you consume bananas.
42. The average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog.
43. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
44. The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with.
45. If you stand at the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime.
46. Studies show that the principal reason people lie is to avoid punishment.
47. The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5000 to 6000 words. 48. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
49. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
50. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
51. The first man-made item to exceed the speed of sound was the bull's whip or leather whip.
52. Mozart wrote "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" when he was 5 years old.
53. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
54. You are more likely to be killed by
a champagne cork than by a spider.
55. A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.