True Facts

1)A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
2)Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
3)It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
4)Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
5)Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
6)Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
7)The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
8)One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
9)Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
10)Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
11)Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
12)Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
13)Honey is the only food that does not spoil
14)Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
15)More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
16)More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
17)Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
18)The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
19)Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
20)You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
21)Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
22)Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
23)It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
24)The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
25)Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
26)A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
27)A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
28)The average person laughs 10 times a day!
29)An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Apr 3, 2008