Amazing facts

  
Amazing facts



1)Thomas Alwa Edison was afraid of the dark.

2)The youngest pope was 11 years old.

3)A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

4)Henry Ford once attempted to buy the Eiffel Tower and ship it back to the United States.

5)During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of 6 elephants!

6)More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!

7)A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over a hundred m.p.h.!

8)Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breath!!!

9)One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

10)Charles Osborn had the hiccups for 65 years!

11)Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older!

12)Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

13)Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing!!!!!!!!!

14)Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15)On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pins each year!

16)Mosquitoes have teeth*

*a goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.*

*A star fish has no heart*

*Dolphins sleep with one eye open*

*Alligators can't move backwards*

*Penguins can jump 6 feet into the air*

*Honeybees have a kind of hair on their eyes*

*Starfish is one of the few animals who can turn their stomach inside out*

*The elephant is one of the few animals that can't jump*

*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave*

*The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn it's head*

*On average, people fear spiders more than they do death*

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

18)What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

19)"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

20)"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

21)In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

22)A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

23)Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

24)You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

25)There is a city called Rome on every continent.

26)It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

27)Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

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