Interesting Facts?

1. A baseball has exactly 108 stitches

2. An eyelash may last for 4 mos., while scalp hair may last for 4 years.

3. The human brain is about 85% water.

4. Thes symbol of love used to be the liver, not the heart.

5. A average person uses the bathroom six times per day

6. Every person has a unique tongue print

7. A drop (gtt) of blood equals 5,000,000 red blood cells and 1,000 white blood cells.

8. A beard can grow up to 30 ft. (9.44 meters) in a lifetime if left unshaved.

9. The left lung is smaller than the right lung, so that there's room for the heart.

10. The small intestine would stretch to a length of 20 ft. (6.096 meters)

11. Each square inch of human skin consists of 20 ft (6.096 meters) of blood vessels

12. By age 60, most people will have lost half of their taste buds

13. The largest human organ is the skin with a surface area of about 22 square feet (2.043867 square meters)

14. The average human body contains enough Carbon to make 300 pencils

15. Humans shed about 1.5 lbs. (680.3886 grams) of skin in one year.

16. Six-year-old kids laugh an average of 300 times a day.

17. It would take 16 seconds for blood to travel from the heart to the feet, and only six seconds backwards.

18. There are 350,000,000 air sacs in the lungs. If you could spread them out, the air sacs would equal the are of a tennic court.

19. An average person releases about 17 ounces (502.75 mililiters) of gas in one day.

20. An average person produces 25,000 qts. (23658.82 liters) of spit (enough to fill two swimming pools!) in one lifetime.

21. After spending hours working in front of a computer monitor, a blank piece of white paper will probably appear pink.

22. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

23. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

24. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32,000,000 bacteria on it.

25. The human body has over 600 muscles.

26. The total number of human taste buds is about 10,000.

27. A fingertip takes about six months to grow from base to tip.

28. An average person will drink 16,000 gallons (60566.59 Liters) of water in a lifetime.

29. The average human body contains enough iron to produce a three-inch nail.

30. Urine was once used to wash hair--to get rid of hair lice!

31. Your pupils dilate when you see someone you love. (They also do that when you see someone you hate!)

32. About 10% of all the people in the world are left-handed.

33. Laughing strengthens the immune system.

34. Your poop can sometimes come out colored green, depending on what you eat!

35. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

36. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime

37. Researchers have found that mosquitoes are attracted to people who've just eaten bananas.

38. Popcorn was banned from most movie theaters in the 1920s because it was considered too noisy.

39. Paper can be made from asparagus.

40. White chocolate doe not contain caffeine.

41. In ancient times, Egyptians worshipped onions!

42. In soda fountain slang, a “bucket of mud” is a bowl of chocolate ice cream.

43. Japan’s version of a pizza is okonomiyaki, a mix of grilled vegetables, noodles, and meat or seafood between two pancake-like layers of fried batter.

44. The candy capital of the world is Chicago, Illinois, with more chocolate manufacturers within a small radius than any other place in the world.

45. A favorite dish of the Aztecs was roast turkey with chocolate gravy.

46. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

47. According to the U.S. National Sausage and Hot Dog Council, kid say they prefer chocolate sauce on their hotdogs—as long as mom isn’t watching!

48. A honeybee needs to tap 2,000,000 flowers to make one pound (453.5924 Grams) of honey.

49. The first meal ever eaten in space was pureed applesauce from a tube.

50. The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old named Frank Epperson.

51. Black-eyed peas are actually beans.

52. Ice cream contains a seawed known as carrageenan or Irish Moss.

53. In Idaho, U.S.A., It’s illegal to give a person a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds (22.67962 Kilograms)

54. A man named Charles Hardy once ate six pounds and nine ounces of cabbage in nine minutes.

55. The Italian word “linguine” literally means “little tongues”.

56. The world’s most expensive coffee comes from monkey poop.

57. The first soft drink can was introduced by RC Cola in 1964.

58. The 1,000,000,000th can of spam was sold in 1959.

59. New Jersey, U.S.A. has a spoon museum with more than 5,000 spoons.

60. 40,000 metric tons of snails are consumed each year in France.

61. Fortune cookie weren’t invented in China, but in Los Angeles, Califonia.

62. In Gainesville, Georgia, it’s against the law to eat chicken with a fork.

63. The banana split was invented in 1904.

64. The holes in Swiss chesse are called “eyes”.

65. The largest clam in the world was found in Okinawa, Japan. It weighed 750 pounds (340.1943 Kilograms).

66. Cotton Candy is called “Fairy Floss” in Australia.

67. A restaurant in Sweden serves garlic cheesecake.

68. More fresh mangoes are eaten each day compared to any other fruit.

69. Basil is a token of love in Italy

70. Ancient Greeks believed that lettuce made people sleepy.

71. Mint is good for repelling mice.

72. When Visigoths attacked Rome in 408 AD, they demanded 3,000 pounds (1360.777 Kilograms) of pepper as ransom.

73. The largest turkey in the world weighed 46 pounds (20.86525 Kilograms).

74. The sun never shines during winter in the North Pole.

75. A diamond will not dissolve in acid.

76. The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches (44.45 Centimeters) in diameter—bigger than a basketball!

77. Balls lose their bounce when stored in the freezer.

78. A snow flake takes two hours to reach the ground.

79. A beehive is made up of a network of hexagons called honeycombs.

80. The first toothbrush with bristle was developed in China.

81. Hungarian brothes George and Laszlo Biro invented the ballpoint pen in 1938.

82. A piece of pure gold as big as a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

83. Cinderella’s slippers were originally made of fur.

84. The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

85. The mineral deposit in caves that grow upward are stalagmites, the ones that grow downward are stalactites.

86. In 17th-century Europe, the upper class wore six-inch heels. They each needed two servants to hold them up on either side!

87. A Christmas wreath hung on a door symbolizes welcome and long life to those who enter.

88. All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black unless they belong to a high official.

89. Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.

90. Currency in Estonia is called Kroon.

91. The uniforms of the Italian Air Force were designed by Girogio Armani.

92. Some people consider it good luck to tie a red bow on a new car.

93. The teddy bear was named after U.S. President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.

94. A typical lightning bolt is 2 to 4 inches wide and 2 miles long (5.08- 10.16 centimeters wide and 3.218688 kilometers long).

95. Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed.

96. The parachute was invented before the airplane.

97. Women in England used to sleep with raw beef on their faces to get rid of wrinkles!

98. The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10.9158 kilometers), in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench.

99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

100. The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields.

101. Zero was invented in India and was believed to represent the sun.

102. The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.

103. In 1,000 BC, men and women in Egypt and Rome wore rouge, lipstick and nail polish.

104. You can keep from sinking in quicksand by bending backwars and raising your legs slowly.

105. It takes less energy to make paper from recycled materials than from trees.

106. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

107. Uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics are the two longest words that can be spelled without repeating a letter.

108. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons (15141.65 Liters) of fuel to take off.

109. Yo-yos were first mass produced by a Filipino named Pedro Flores-- they were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

110. Winners of the Olympic games in ancient Greece received olive wreaths instead of gold medals.

111. Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the moon on February 6, 1971.

112. Tennis was originally played with bare hands!

113. Tug-of-war was an Olympic event in the 1900s.

114. Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly 14 feathers.

115. The first World Cup for soccer was held in Uruguay in 1930.

116. Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutist, jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799.

117. Rugby balls were once made from pigs' bladders.

118. The record for the most olympic medals ever won is held by Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina with 18 medals.

119. Korfball is the only sport played with mixed teams, each teams consisting of four men and four women.

120. About 42,000 tennis balls are used in matches during the Wimbledon Championship.

121. A Canadian doubles game of tennis requires only three players.

122. Hockey pucks used to be made of frozen cow dung.

123. The very first Olympic race, held in 776 BC, was won by a chef named Corubus.

124. Lori Lynn Lomeli hula-hooped with 82 different hoops at once in 1999!

125. The competitors in Japanese Sumo wresting are called rikishi.

126. Badminton is the world's fastest racquet sport.

127. In baseball superstition, a wad of gum stuck on a player's hat brings good luck.

128. No high jumper can stay off the ground for more than a second.

129. A marble player is called a mibster.

130. The oldest sport in the world is wrestling.

131. Your shorts actually gain weight from sweat when you play tennis!

132. In 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the top of Everest.

133. Ashrita Furman from New York City once jumped rope 130,000 times in 24 hours.

134. Baseball umpires used to sit in a paddled rocking chair behind the catcher.

135. Ron Hunt holds the record for the most times a person has been hit by a baseball pitch-- he got hit 50 times in 1971.

136. Pigeon racing was once a popular sport in the U.S.

137. The Olympic gold medal is mostly made of silver-- but contains at least six grams of gold.

138. Ouch! Hockey players believe that they'll win if they tap the goalie on the shin pads before the game.

139. The bagpipe actually originated in the Middle East.

140. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

141. The first voice for Mickey Mouse was Walt Disney.

142. Bugs Bunny used to be white.

143. No one wanted to publish Superman comics when creators Seigel and Shuster first pitched it in the 1930s.

144. The longest song title ever is "I'm a Crany Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-0 Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues". written in 1943.

145. Karaoke was invented in Japan [it means "empty orchestra"].

Even though Reykjavik,Iceland is only 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it has never recorded a temperature below 14 degrees fahrenheit.That's because the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic modifies the climate in Iceland.

Antarctica is considered a desert! Even though it's brutally cold, it receives little precip. in a year.

You can actually snow ski in Hawaii in the winter on top of Mt. Halekalala(spelling?)

The world's hottest temp. ever recorded was 136 in LIbya, the second highest was 134 in Death Valley,CA. Both of those occurrerd about 80 years ago.

Nina Hartley, a beautiful and famous adult film star, graduated top honors from UC Berkeley in 1984 before her film career.

The Atacama Desert in South America is the world's driest place even though it's along the Pacific coast.It averages a few inches of rain every century!

Marilyn Vos Savant, with an IQ of 228, is the world's smartest person.

Despite his success and wealth, Bill Gates dropped out of college.

The highest and lowest points in the continental US are only 80 miles apart-Mt.Whitnety at 14,000 feet and a point in Death Valley at -282 feet below sea level.

The word sanction has two opposing meanings when used as a noun and verb.As a noun it means penalty.As a verb it means to approve.

There are palm trees growing outside in southwestern British Columbia,Canada near Vancouver and Victoria.

The sun is closer to the earth in winter than in summer believe it or not.Why is winter colder? Because the earth's tilt receives less sunlight in the winter.

The Bristlecone pine trees in the Sierra Nevadas of CA are the world's oldest organism at 4600 years old.

The Maybach 62S is the world's most expensive new car at $426,000 dollars.Even more than a Rolls Royce!

Most Icelanders speak 5 or 6 languages fluently.

Camarillo,CA, where I grew uo, was nominated by National Geographic in the 60's as having the world's best climate. A lot of people tend to think Hawaii, but Camarillo's weather can't be beat.

In 1977, it snowed south of Miami.

Bermuda has the world's northernmost coral reef.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from the moon.

A couple of weeks ago, it snowed in Baghdad for the first time, a rare tornado struck near Portland,OR and an unheard of Jan. tornado hit near Milwaukee,WI.

Las Vegas means the meadows in Spanish. Today it means lost wages-lol!

English became the world's international language after England won The Battle of Trafalgar against Spain and FRance for control over trade routes.That's why English is the world language of business.

The Koala Bear is not a bear.I think it's a marsupial.

The internet was established in 1969, but it was only used by scientists and researchers.The world wide web was founded in 1991 by a Swiss scientist.

Cancer is actually considered 100 different diseases and not a single disease.

Beavers can hold their breath for 45 mins under water

Slugs have four noses

Camels have 3 eyelids

A queen bee can lay 800- 1500 eggs per day

Bees have 5 eyes

The average speed of a house fly is 4.5mph

Emu & kangaroos cant walk backwards

Camel milk doesnt curdle

The only food that doesnt spoil is honey

Chewing gum whilst peeling onions will prevent you from crying

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not down

You blink 10 000 000 times a year!

I cant be bothered to write any more! I hope this helps!

Here you go.

Slugs have 4 noses.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years.

Panama Hats are made in Ecuador.

Catgut comes from sheep and horses.

Russians celebrate the October Revolution in November.

A camel's hair brush is made of squirrel fur.

The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after dogs.

A purple finch is actually crimson.

The state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.

The MOST densely populated state in the U.S. is New Jersey with an average of 1,143.9 people per square mile.

The LEAST densely populated state in the U.S. is Alaska with an average of 1.1 people per square mile.

Alaska has 33,904 miles of coastline. Florida is second with 8,426 miles of coastline.

50% of the U.S. population who file income taxes report annual income of less than $30,000 which leads us to the next fact…..

50% of those people who pay income taxes contribute only a little over 3% of the overall revenues collected by the IRS .

.5% of the U.S. population has adjusted gross incomes over $500,000.

The richest 1% of the people in the U.S. earn 21.2% of the total overall income of all wage earners.

On an average daily basis, 88,163 Apple iPods are sold.

On an average daily basis, Americans consume 35,079,448 12 ounce servings of Bud Light beer.

On an average daily basis, 2,400,000 Burger King Whoppers are consumed.

On an average daily basis, 8,179,726 20-ounce bottles of Aquafina bottled water are purchased.

On an average daily basis, Americans purchase and / or drink 50,051,507 12-ounce cans of Pepsi.

Approximately 37% or almost 4 out of 10 people in U.S. lives within 100 miles of the coast.

Chinese gooseberries are from New Zealand.

The ‘black boxes’ in commercial airplanes are orange.

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.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work......Alaska

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

(now get this...)

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:

$ 16,400

What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield

wipers and laser printers have in common?

.......All were invented by women.

Walt Disney used to wash his hands 30 times an hour.

Charles Dickens always used to touch things three times for luck.

George V kept the hundreds of clocks at Sandringham House, Norfolk. thirty minutes fast so that he would never be late for an appointment.

Rick Wakeman played synthesizer on David Bowie's "Space Oddity".

Heres is a great site loaded with strange and fascinating facts about the world. And they deserve the ten points, I think the one about there is one slot machine for every 8 people in Las Vegas is funny.

http://www.strangefacts.com/

Leeches have 3 jaws, octopi have three hearts, slugs have 2 noses, if you put two uncoated pieces of metal together in space, they are automatically permanantly bonded, leeches have 32 brains.

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.

Clostridium perfringens bacteria can reproduce every ten minutes or so.

Under ideal circumstances, in one day they might reproduce 144 times. Beginning with one bacterium, that would mean more than 2.23 X 10^43 bacteria = 22,300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bacteria.