INTERESTING FACTS
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
11% of the world is left-handed.
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
259200 people die every day.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A cucumber is 96% water.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A pineapple is a berry.
A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
A women's heart beats faster than men.
All mammals, except man and monkey are color blind.
All mammals have tongues.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.