Thursday 6 November 2014

WAO Facts About Multiple Things - Amazingly True

- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
 
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
 
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
 
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
 
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
 
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
 
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
 
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
 
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
 
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
 
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 
- A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months
 
- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
 
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
 
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
 
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
 
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
 
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.  (Confusing :S) **
 
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
 
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
 
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
 
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
 
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
 
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
 
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
 
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
 
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
 
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

- The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.

- Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.

- Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

- In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.

- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

- All babies are colour-blind when they are born.

- May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.

- There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

- The coconut is the largest seed in the world.

- The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

- Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

- All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

- Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.

- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

- An octopus has 3 hearts.

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