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Did You Know? Test your Knowledge. Part 1

 A selection of random facts!

  • A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
  • Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
  • Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  • The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  • Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.
  • Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
  • In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
  • Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
  • During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
  • In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
  • Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
  • Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
  • It’s against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
  • A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  • An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
  • A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
  • A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
  • Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  • The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
  • The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.
  • A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
  • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
  • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  • The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
  • Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
  • Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
  • The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
  • They have square watermelons in Japan – they stack better.
  • Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
  • A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
  • The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary. When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law.
  • In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.
  • Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

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