RANDOM FACTS 6

Amazing Facts
DO YOU KNOW?
· Ants don't sleep.
· Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot
move their eyes.
· The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
· A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
· A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
· The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the
mosquito.
· Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
· Snakes are immune to their own poison.
· Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million
descendants.
· A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
· The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
· It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000
insects in the course of a summer.
· Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
· Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2
miles away.
· A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
· A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
· Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15
years.
· The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of
lobsters is blue.
· Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on
furniture to keep the air cool.
· To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
· A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
· The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the
Philippines.
· Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
· Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it
can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
· Coca-Cola was originally green.
· The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
· The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
· TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row! Of the keyboard.
· Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
· Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
· Most lipstick contains fish scales.
· You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
· It is impossible to lick your elbow.
· People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
· Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
· If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has
all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
· What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
· Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
· The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
· The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
· Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear
by 700 times.
· The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
· Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.