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A thread about facts. Sort of a "did you know" (DYK) from sports center except it doesn't have to be about sports.

DYK that a blue whale's heart is the size of a small car?

DYK that the first ballpoint pen was sold in 1945 for $12 ?

--If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

--The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

--The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

--Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

--Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

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

-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

-- The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".

-----The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

-- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

---Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.

--A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.

--The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.

--The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

----No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

--A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

--The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

--Polar bears are left handed.

--The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

--The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

--Butterflies taste with their feet.

--. It is impossible to sneeze and keep ones eye's open at the same time.

--Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)

--A cat's urine glows under a black light.

--An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

--Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known.

turtles cant jump.............and how many people have really been killed by a stray cork? some of those are far fethced

If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.

250 people have fallen off the leaning tower of Pisa.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

The foot is the most common body part to be bitten by insects.

The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

During the average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

Insects shiver when they're cold.

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

The numbers on the opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.

The average person's hair grows a combined 55,000 inches per month.

The average life span of a major league baseball is seven pitches.

One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The average person has a total of 6 lbs of skin.

The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

Snake's fangs fold inward when they close their mouth so they don't bite themselves.

For night vision like an owl, you'd need eyes the size of a grapefruit.

An eyelash lives for about 150 days before it falls out.

More than half of North Americans lose tehir TV remote between one and five times a week.

The average "pouring" speed of Heinz ketchup from the bottle: 0.003 mph.

The biggest brain: sperm whale (20 lbs)

Woodpeckers' heads are filled with air pockets that cushion their head bones.

A cockroach can live 9 days without its head.

Top kitchen table bacteria speed = 0.0001 mph.

Tiger shark embryos fight each other while in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

Most cats are left-handed.

It is impossible to lick your elbow (over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow)

In Japan, it's against the law to buy or eat rice grown in another country.

It takes an average of 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

There are at least two golf balls sitting on the moon (I thought you guys would like this one )

North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.

You were born with 300 bones. At adulthood, you're left with 206.

You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet in just 24 hours.

Black: usually the first colour of crayon to be used up in a pack.

Baby robins can eat 14 feet of earthworms each day.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

Strabismus: When a person's eyes go two different directions at once.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks.

The human eyeball weighs about one ounce.

Illinois Avenue: the most landed-on square in Monopoly.

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Weight for weight, bone is five times stronger than steel.

DYK that Killer whales arent in fact whales... they are actually the worlds largest species of dolphin.

Ouch that would hurt!..... and it would look ummm a bit weird/ugly too

THOSE ARE OFFBEAT ODDITIES!

I don't think so

DYK that right handers swing left handed below the equator?

stagday

Everyone knows that "internet facts" are not always factual.....don't we?

Here's an example...: "The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field."

Even assuming the average human is 5 feet tall (a bit on the short side I would guess) and jumped 350 times their body length....that's 1,750 feet. A football field is 360 feet long, from end line to end line.

Or taking this to mean 350 times what the average human can jump.....Even using a human jump of 3 feet means a total distance of 1,050 feet, or almost 3 football fields.

I'm not being critical of anyone trying to have a little fun.....just don't believe everything you read on the internet!

LG, I actually saw something about the longest jumper on the nature channel and you're correct. They took a flea's jumping ability and if applied to a human, we could leap over the Brooklyn Bridge. The 350 times number refers to the body height. I believe that is actually accurate but the person who came up with that didn't measure correctly when it came to the football field.

I bet those would be some ugly legs.

I'm on 'bout my fif cup

Shade

You must have kids!