Being a provider of many interesting facts to those around me, i thought i would extend my services to include this little page! However, when i decided to write it…i could of course not think of any interesting facts at all…so i will resort to these few that i’ve copied from other websites…and add more when i think of them…enjoy!:
Coffee has 923 different chemicals in it.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times (i’m determined to prove this wrong!! – get me one gargantuan piece of paper please…)
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.
Indonesia has the 4th largest population in the world! After China, India and the USA!
Chimpanzees are genetically more similar to humans than they are to gorillas!
During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps (and supplied the South African government during the appartheid).
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don’t. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best – they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
There are thirty-five thousand kinds of ants in the world, and their collective weight far outweighs that of humans!
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
90% of the world’s ice is in Antartica making its land mass larger than America or Europe!
The average life expectancy for an ant is 45-60 days, while the Queen can live 10-20 years!
Barnacles have the biggest penis:body size ratio!
Beers have no ears.
www.fergus-macdonald.com is the best site on the internet!
Men are 6 times more likely to be hit by lightening than women!
Pandas have problems breeding because they are extremely solitary animals. During their short period of ovulation, they have problems simply finding each other in the jungle!
You are more likely to die on the way to playing the lottery, than you are to winning it!
Over 70% of the world’s surface is covered in water, yet less than 1% of it has been explored. In that 1%, 2 completely independent ecosystems have been found that do not rely on the sun’s energy to create life. Before this, it was thought every living cell depended on the sun’s energy.
Brazil borders 10 other countries…Chile and Equador are the only two Southern American countries that do not border it!
There are 3 countries in the world that are entirely landlocked by 1 other country. San Marino in Italy, Vatican City in Italy and Lethoso in South Africa.
Polar bears are the largest carnivorous mammals on earth. Although their coat appears white, each hair is actually an individual tube to help it stay warm!
If the Caspian Sea were considered a lake (as it is not connected to any ocean) it would hold 44% of the world’s lake water!
7 out of the 10 most populated countries in the world are in Asia.
Blue whales are believe to be the largest living animal in the world…ever! They can grow to over 30m long and weigh up to 200 tons!
Despite the countries surrounding it having a 5 hour time difference, the whole of China is on one time zone.
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
Grapes explode when you microwave them.
The population of the earth has more than doubled since 1950!
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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No president of the United States was an only child.