* A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.
* Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
* Slugs have 4 noses.
* Camels have 3 eyelids.
* Mosquitos are attracted to people who just ate bananas.
* Children grow faster in the spring.
* Almonds are part of the peach family.
* A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
* The only food that does not spoil is honey.
* Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.
* There are one million ants to every human in the world.
* If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.
* Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day.
* A snail breathes through it's foot.
* Fish cough.
* Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.
* The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
* Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.
* Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
* 11% of people in the world are left-handed.
* A human brain weighs about 3 lbs.
* A tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.
* Strawberries contain more Vitamin C than Oranges.
* There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia.
* You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world.
* The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime.
* The average person spends 2 weeks of it's life waiting for a traffic light to change.
* Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros). (Side note- This also was intended to be the correct spelling for my favorite search engine, until one of the founding members misspelled it searching for the domain availability. So now we have Google, yay..haha)
* Oysters can change genders back and forth.
* Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs.
* In a year, the average person walks 4 miles making their bed.
* When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less.
* You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
* A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second.
* The lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days.
* A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
* 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
Facts that Could Someday Earn You Alot of $$$ (If you're ever on a GameShow,)
I knew a couple of these...but still..wow! I suddenly have the urge to:
*Buy a goldfish and keep it in my closet for a year.
*Eat a bananna outside..at night..in a woodsy area and see if I get bit.
*Weigh a hummingbird
and..
*Give a frog a fly..while holding it's eyelids open (might sound impossible..but it would
be crazy to watch!lol)
Wow lol Those are some neat-o facts Steve!
Did YOU know that...
*The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyranosaurus rex.
*Technically speaking, coffee is a fruit juice.
*Many residents of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, have blue skin.
*The "@" symbol is over 500 years old.
*Houseflies hum in the key of E.
*Botulism bacteria are so toxic that only one pound could kill every human on Earth.
*Uranus is about 19 times larger than Earth and 20 times more fun to say. (lol)
*There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
*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 (whew...good luck getting that shot!)
Jess
I thought I had been logged in when I posted that...guess I wasn't? lol