July 5, 2012

Everyone Should Know


Everyone Should KnowEveryone Should Know

  • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
  • There is a city called Rome on every continent.
  • Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
  • What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
  • It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
  • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
  • Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
  • Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
  • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
  • More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
  • The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
  • Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
  • Slugs have 4 noses.
  • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
  • The average person laughs 10 times a day!
  • Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
  • In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
  • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
  • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
  • You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
  • Everyone Should Know: Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
  • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  • The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
  • The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Those are the list of things that Everyone Should Know it.

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