Strange, Amazing and True
June 17, 2009
- The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
- Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”!
- Our body creates and kills 15 million red blood cells per second!
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
- you’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
- There were more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
- In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
- The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
- Human heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off – it dies from starvation!
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
- There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
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