- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
- In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
- There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
- About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
- More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
- In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
- Slugs have 4 noses!
- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
- Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
- Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
- The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
- It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
- There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
- Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
- ....rest your eyes.. there's plenty more where that came from........
- The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
- Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
- A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
- More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
- The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!
- The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
- Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
- One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
- America once issued a 5-cent bill!
- You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
- Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
- Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
- Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
- 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
- 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
- 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
- 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
- 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
- In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
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