INTERESTING AND AMAZING FACTS

THESE ARE SOME INTERESTING AND AMAZING FACTS! HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM!

1) Polar bears are left-handed.

2) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

3) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

4) If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

5) Only 1 person in 2,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.

6) The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

7) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

8) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

9) Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

10) A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

11) The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896(Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes).

12) A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

13) Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

14) Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

15) Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

16) If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

17) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

18) The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

19) The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with ( i.e. America, Australia, Europe)

20) The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. "TYPEWRITER" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

21) If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

22) A snail can sleep for 3 years.

23) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

24) China has more English speakers than the United States.

25) The electric chair in prison was invented by a dentist.

26) You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

27) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


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