O.M.G.! facts

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

NASA put a man on the moon with less computer memory than you use when taking a picture on your iPhone.

93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women

People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper

 

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is found in Prozac.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.

Starfish have no brains.

Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country

The tallest tree recorded is located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. It is a coast redwood and has been measured at 117 metres high

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland

In 1681, the last dodo bird died

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time

In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it

You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They even have a post office

In the movie "Gandhi" 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free

Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process

Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day

In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.

There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs

The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.

The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds

The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

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