Interesting Facts

1) Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

2) It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

3) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!

4) The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

5) Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

6) A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

7) Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!

8) There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!

9) Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!

10) The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

　
Interesting Facts

1) The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

2) Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

3) A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

4) Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

5) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

6) There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!

7) A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

8) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

9) You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

10) Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!

　
Interesting Facts

1) No two spider webs are exactly the same.

2) Owls eyeballs are not round like ours, but tubular.

3) There are about 2,600 different species of frogs.

4) The Greek national anthem has 158 verses. Only the first two are played at the Olympics.

5) The volcanic eruption of Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 killed the most people. Close to 92,000 people died.

6) The Turkey Vulture's digestive system has the unique ability to kill any virus or bacteria in the food the bird eats.

7) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

8) A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

9) Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

10) Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.  

Interesting Facts

1) Coca-Cola was originally green.

2) The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

3) Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.

   Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

4) Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

5) The youngest pope was 11 years old.

6) Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

7) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

8) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

9) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

10) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.