More Curious Facts
It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea!
Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long. These fish can weigh up to 15 tons.
If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds. Not a great idea!!!
Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES.
The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1.
People use 200 muscles when they walk.
The fastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
An eyelash lives about 5 months before falling out.
For its weight, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
A sneeze travels out your nose at over 100mph.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.
Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 30,000 kg of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
The tongue of a mature blue whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire elephant.
Half of the human genome (group of genetic information) is identical to that of the banana.
The average person speaks about 31.500 words a day.
A single tree in Amazonian Peru may contain more than 400 species of ants.
The nose can notice up to 6.850 different smells.
The coldest place on Earth is the Vostok Station, Antarctica; reaching temperatures down to -89,2ºC.
The brain of an adult weight in average about 1,4 kg or 2% of the whole body weight.
The calendar repeats itself every 28 years, when the days of the month fall on the same days of the week.
In 1639 a horse was found guilty of a murder in France.
The nose and the ears never stop growing.
A normal child has an average of 100 I.Q. (intelligence quotient).
In average, an adult will eliminate three litters of water a day through their urine, sweat or breathing.
The finger prints of a human being are formed about seven weeks before a baby is born and they are different from everyone else's.
In Idaho, USA, people are forbidden by law to fish while sitting on the back of a giraffe.
A whale sleeps only one hour a day.
The Oscar statuette is 34 centimetres high and weighs 3,850 kg.
It takes 10 litters of milk to produce one kilo of cheese.
The Spiderman character was actually based on another comic book superhero called "The Spider".
In Saudi Arabia people are forbidden by law to kiss strangers.
In 2001, a one-hundred-year-old chocolate bar was auctioned in London for almost U$500.00.
16% of women are born blonds, and about 33% of women are blonds.
In average a person laughs 15 times a day.
Every year about 20 billion paper-clips are produced around the world.
Dolphins sleep with their eyes open.
When a person laughs a lot during the day, he/she sleeps better later at night.
Shrimps have their hearts located in their heads.
The firelighter was invented before the matches.
Honey is the only food that doesn't get rot.
The last place in the world to celebrate New Year's is the Samoa Island on the Pacific Ocean.
Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 18 seconds to reach Earth.
Before the 1800, the right and left shoe were no different.
Donald Duck's whole name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck.
A wale only sleeps one hour a day.
When you brush your teeth and let the tap running you spend in average 80 litters of water.
In Australia is illegal to wear pink trousers after midday on a Sunday.
People who work in a circus believe that the fur from an elephant's tail brings luck.
A single tree in Amazon forest may contain more than 40 species of ants, equal to the number on the whole of the British Isles.
The biggest Easter's egg in the world is 7.62 meters high.
The skin corresponds to about 16% of a person's weight.
Men sneeze more than women.
In Idaho, USA, it is prohibited to fish sitting on top of a Giraffe's back.
The first comic book exhibition in the world was held in Sao Paulo in 1951.
Spiderman can carry anything that it is up to 10 tons heavy.
When the first top hat was worn in London, it caused such indignation that the man who was wearing it was taken to the City Hall and had to pay a 50-pound fine.
The most consumed bugs in the diet of different people from all around the world are: grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, cicada, caterpillar, termites and ants.
According to an American research a person who sleeps and wakes up late gets worse grades than people who sleep and wake up early. To each extra hour of sleep (apart from the usual eight hours) a grade goes down 0,13 points in a scale from 0 to 4.
When we spit, the saliva can reach up to 170km per hour.
An Englishman is the World Champion for Worm Enchanting. He managed to attract, in 30 minutes, 511 worms out of the earth.
Brazilians produce about 96 thousand of tones of garbage everyday.
The skin is the biggest organ of a human being's body. An average height adult has around 2 meters square of it.
Ants have five noses; each one has a different task purpose.
The Zebras' stripes are like our fingerprints; each animal has a different pattern.
The mammal that lives the longest is men (some reaching over 110 years old); after them are the Asian elephants that can reach up to 78 years old.
An average person has around 120 to 150 thousand hairs on his/her head.
In Thailand the afternoon snack might be made of friend cricket, bees and larva.
A flash of lightning during a storm lasts approximately half a second.
Before 1800 the left and right shoe were exactly the same.
A giraffe can clean its own ears with its tongue.
Although potato chips are also called french-fries in English, they where invented in Belgium in 1876. The same year ketchup was invented.
The right hand's nails grow faster than the left hand's ones.
The Coca-Cola syrup was green when it was invented.
In a room of 35 people, the probability of at least two people sharing the same birthday is approximately 85%.
Mosquitoes are twice more attracted to the colour blue than any other colour
In Madagascar, Africa, people eat stewed bat.
The world's first telephone list was published in 1878.
The airplanes' flight recorders, known as black boxes, are in fact orange.
An ant may live for more than 20 years.
Donald Duck's full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck.
A dog´s ability to distinguish sounds is four times better than ours.
In Atlanta, United States, smelly people are not allowed to ride on streetcars.
When we sneeze, the air comes out of the nose at 160km/h.
Newborn babies cry 113 minutes a day.
23% of all species of plants and animals are from Brazil.
Fleas jump 18 thousand times higher than their size.
In Indiana, USA, no one is allowed into a theatre in less than four hours after having eaten garlic.
Potatoes are rich in vitamin C…but only if eaten raw.
Lobster couples live together forever.
The palm of your hands and the sole of your feet won't tan.
Brazil is the country where most flying saucers were seen in the world.
If all Barbies ever made were put together side by side, they would go seven times round the Earth.
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