Did you know…

•Alligators can’t stick their tongue out
•A shrimps heart is in its head
•People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a mili-second
•It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
•If you sneeze to hard it can fracture a rib
•If you keep you eyes open by force when you sneeze you can pop an eyeball out
•Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
•Most lipstick contains fish scales
•Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York
•Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialized nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1, 77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1, 78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi
•In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs. Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world
•A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die
•According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1, 2 billion people are underfed – about the same number of people who are overweight.
•In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky
•Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road
•Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced
•Hot water is heavier than cold
•On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity
•At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length
•Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions
•Sloth’s take two weeks to digest their food
•Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat
•Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage
•Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own
•Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet
•Deer can't eat hay
•On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans
•The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks
•The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years
•Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day
•There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos
•Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live
•The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting
•The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods
•A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
•Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe
•You can tell the gender of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36
•Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton
•The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had
•Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself
•315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled
•On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
•Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants
•Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
•There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
•The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before
•There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver
•Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
•Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries
•Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions
•"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
•"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel
•In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
•There is a city called Rome on every continent
•It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland
•Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
•The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump
•Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
•Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
•Women blink nearly twice as much as men
•Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
•Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”
•Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it
•On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute
•More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food
•Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
•It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA
•Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food
•Dolphins sleep with one eye open
•The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old
•The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
•Slugs have 4 noses
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
•A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
•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 flea can jump 350 times its body length
•Butterflies taste with their feet