A long list of random facts. 675 to be exact

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#1 A Goldfish’s attention span is three seconds.

#2 Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

#3 Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.

#4 Slugs have four noses.

#5 Camels have three eyelids.

#6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph.

#7 A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.

#8 A bee has five eyes.

#9 The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.

#10 Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.

#11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.

#12 Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.

#13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords.

#14 Camel’s milk does not curdle.

#15 All porcupines float in water.

#16 The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.

#17 A hummingbird weighs less then a penny.

#18 A jellyfish is 95% water.

#19 Children grow faster in the spring.

#20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.

#21 Almonds are part of the peach family.

#22 Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

#23 The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.

#24 The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.

#25 The only food that does not spoil is honey.

#26 The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

#27 A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber.

#28 Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.

#29 On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.

#30 Fish have eyelids.

#31 The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping.

#32 There are one million ants to every human in the world.

#33 Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!

#34 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.

#35 Elephants only sleep two hours a day.

#36 A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.

#37 A snail breathes through its foot.

#38 Fish cough.

#39 An ant’s smell is stronger then a dog’s.

#40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.

#41 Shrimp can only swim backward.

#42 Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

#43 A cat’s lower jaw cannot move sideways.

#44 The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

#45 Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.

#46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.

#47 Giraffes have no vocal chords.

#48 Cats can hear ultrasound.

#49 Despite its hump … camels has a straight spine.

#50 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

#51 There are 63,360 inches in a mile.

#52 Eleven percent of people in the world are left-handed.

#53 The average women consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

#54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

#55 A human brain weighs about three pounds.

#56 A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

#57 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

#58 A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100 mph.

#59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.

#60 The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.

#61 Pigs get sunburned.

#62 The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days.

#63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

#64 Strawberries contain more vitamin C then oranges.

#65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.

#66 Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.

#67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.

#68 The longest one syllable word is “screeched.
 
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#93 A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.


I stopped reading after this.

I do not believe this, therefore I discredit any information found in this thread.
 
Originally Posted by davidisgodly

#93 A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.


I stopped reading after this.

I do not believe this, therefore I discredit any information found in this thread.
i googled this, and sources say its true
 
the use of then rather than "than" really pissed me off, so i stopped reading. also people who misuse affect vs effect, should of vs should have...really grinds my gears.. just saying though. ::kanye shrug::
 
#117 The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.

False, a frog does the same when he throws up, theres even a video on youtube of the frog doing it, so the starfish aint the only animal.
 
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