Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
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.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
A snail can sleep for 3 years
In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
Every year some 50million cars are added to the world’s roads. Car making is now the largest manufacturing industry in the world.
Sharks attack more men than women. No one knows why this is the case.
Sharks do not sleep the same way as humans do. They might seem as if they are sleeping but they are really just resting!
Sharks have been around for more than 300 million years! They were around before dinosaurs!
Sharks' bodies are heavier than the sea, so if they stop moving they sink. If they want to stay afloat, they must keep moving!
There are more than 500 active volcanoes in the world
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