- You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
- You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
- One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
- The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
- The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
- The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.
- ."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try!
- A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon.
- It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska.
- In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
- The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
- Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.
- The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.
- If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
- To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
- One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
- Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.
- The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.
- The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television.
- Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.
- The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.
- There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
- The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
- Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.
- Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
- 11% of the World is left handed.
- A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.
Facts about human life
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