Intersting Facts and Figures

General Knowledge

• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
• Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
• Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
• The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
• A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
• Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.
• On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
• The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
• More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
• The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
• You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
• Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
• The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
• One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
• The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
• The average person laughs 10 times a day!
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
• The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime!
• The most difficult item for a sewerage plant to process is pubic hair as it is insoluble.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales!
• It takes seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep!
• The bullet-proof vest, windscreen wipers, laser printers and fire escapes were all invented by women!
• In the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word in England!
• It was the Chinese who invented sun glasses in the 13th century!