I've been looking for some interesting facts for this blog and I found these. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
3. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
4. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
5. 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.
6. Polar bears are left handed.
7. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
8. Butterflies taste with their feet.
9. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
10. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
11. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
12. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
13. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
14. Pearls melt in vinegar.
15. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
16. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
17. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
18. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
19. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
20. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
21. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
22. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
23. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
24. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
25. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
26. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
27. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
28. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!
29. We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams.
30. Blueberry juice boosts energy.
I did not know the majority of these, pretty interesting indeed!
RépondreSupprimerAwsome facts..I actually did not no most of them.. i ike the fact 23. I should probably do that when i do cought onions :)
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