AMAZING FACTS!

FACTS 1-10

1. There are 1792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
2. You would have to drink 100 cups of coffee in four hours to get the lethal dose of caffeine which is 10 grams.
3. Flamingos get their pink colour from the shrimp they eat The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become.
4. Dolphins don't automatically breathe they have to tell themselves to.
5. The average heart beats 100,000 times each day.
6. When you crack your knuckles the pop you hear is a bubble of gas bursting.
7. An elephant's penis is about 1.5 metres long, the longest of any animal.
8. No word in the English language rhymes with silver, month, orange or purple.
9. Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
10. One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.

FACTS 11-20

11. The Australian emu holds the land speed record for birds at about 50 kilometres per hour.
12. Generally, a dog's mouth has fewer germs and bacteria than a human's mouth.
13. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
14. The aeroplane Buddy Holly died in was the American Pie. Thus the title of the Don McLean song.
15. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
16. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
17. Scissors were invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
18. The number of births in India each year is greater that the entire population of Australia.
19. Two million hydrogen atoms might just cover the full stop at the end of this sentence.
20. More people are killed by donkeys each year than are killed in plane crashes.

FACTS 21-30

21. On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tonnes.
22. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency.
23. Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or your tongue. Every letter should sound exactly the same.
24. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
25. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
26. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
27. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
28. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
29. 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.
30. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.

FACTS 31-40

31. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
32. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
33. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
34. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
35. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
36. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
37. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
38. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
39. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
40. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

FACTS 41-50

41. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
42. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
43. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
44. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
45. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
46. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
47. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
48. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
49. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
50. The state of Florida is bigger than England.

FACTS 51-60

51. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
52. Slugs have 4 noses.
53. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
54. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
55. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.".
56. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E.
57. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
58. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
59. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
60. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

FACTS 61-70

61. The Pentagon, in Arlington Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
62. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
63. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
64. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
65. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
66. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
67. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
68. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
69. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
70. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

FACTS 71-80

71. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
72. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
73. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
74. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
75. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
76. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
77. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
78. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
79. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
80. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

FACTS 81-90

81. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers...they saw it as competition.
82. You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
83. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
84. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
85. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan.".
86. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
87. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
88. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
89. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
90. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

FACTS 91-100

91. In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.  Hence we have "the rule of thumb". 
92. Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered  into the English language. 
93. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone!
94. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
95. If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air  the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 
96. If you were to spell out numbers starting at number 1, you wouldn't use the letter "A" until you got to 1000.
97. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windscreen wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
98. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."
99. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's!" 
100. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month...which we now know today as the honeymoon!