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101 Unbeliable facts you didn’t know.?

February 16th, 2010 14 comments

snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Ants never sleep.

Owls cannot move their eyes because their eyeballs tubular in shape.

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

A baby bat is called a pup.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

German Shepherds (dog) bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

The animal (insect) responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed 1,904 pounds in 1939.

Snakes are immune to their own poison.

Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

A shrimp’s heart is in their head.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Hydra – an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never die. It regenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

In the animal kingdom, the animals that fart the most are the elephants.

Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars are the only species of cats that can roar; but they can’t purr.

Entomophagy is the scientific name for insect eating. There are more than 1,450 recorded species of edible insects. Many species of insects are lower in fat and higher in protein and have a better food-to-meat ratio than beef, lamb, pork, or chicken.

Foods & Drinks

Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves.

Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.

Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.

All other vegetables must be replanted every year except two perennial vegetables; Asparagus and rhubarb that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.

Games & Sports

There are 366 dimples on a golf ball.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play first four moves, per side, in chess.

Playing cards in India are in round shape.

Boxing is the only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the winner until the contest ends.

The biggest badminton shuttle in the world can be found on the lawns of the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, in Kansas City. It is 48 times larger than the real thing. This shuttle is 18 feet high and weighing 5,000 pounds.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

General

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car.

History

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Mao Zedong of China never brush his teeth in his lifetime.

When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her closets.

During World War II, the Japanese used shark liver oil in the engines of their fighter planes.

J. P Blanchard, a Frenchman, is credited with having been the first person to use a parachute. In 1785, from a balloon high in the air, he dropped a dog in a basket to which a parachute was attached. Blanchard also claimed to have descended from a balloon in a parachute in 1793.

Human Body

Randy Gardner of San Diego is the longest person who has gone without sleep for 11 days in 1965. He broke the record of Peter Tripp of New York, who settled a record of 8.5 days without a wink.

The fingernails grow faster on the hand you favor. If you are right-handed, your right fingernails will grow faster, and vice versa. The middle fingernail grows faster than any other nail.

Usually right handed people utilize left side of brain for all their conscious, voluntary activities.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

The women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease than men.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

An average person eat 60,000 pounds of food in his lifetime.

WOW!!! that’s so cool!!!!!!!!!!! only knew a few of those facts! and some of them were really surprising! (like the one that says you can’t kill yourself by holding your breath – hadn’t really thought about it before, but now i do…it seems kinda obvious…and green coke just sounds gross!!!) 😛