A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
A horse can sleep standing up.
A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human.
A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
6 comments:
You are the champion of TRIVIA... where do you get all this information from?
I cannot comprehend the choking on a ballpoint pen!
Hubby calls it a 'courtesy flush.' Go figure--must have been learned in the Navy or at his work place. :)
'About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.'
For some reason, this one was the fact that stood out for me. Obviously, I like facts about toilets..
"A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human."
And yet they still sniff their own, and other dog's butts.
yikes. I'm stuck on that decapitation thing... I'll only hope that while concious, there is no pain...
I have a question - who thinks to do research about whether people are sitting on the toilet when they flush it? Great list.
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