Odd Facts Old and New. Perhaps the longest list ever

1. 1. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

   2. Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

   3. Slugs have four noses.

   4. Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.

   5. Camel’s milk does not curdle.

   6. There are one million ants to every human in the world.

   7. Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

   8. Teeth are the only parts of the human body that cannot repair themselves.

   9. August has the highest percentage of births

   10. Google is a number. (1 followed by 100 zeros).

   11. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

   12. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

   13. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

   14. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

   15. Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

   16. People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.

   17. A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

   18. The tongue is the fastest healing part of your body.

   19. Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

   20. A one day weather forecast requires 10 billion math calculations

   21. The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the Kiwi.

   22. The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/he lifetime.

   23. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

   24. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from public libraries.

   25. On average a 4 year old asks 437 questions a day.

   26. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps

   27. Every year the moon moves a further 3.82 cm away from the earth

   28. The Eiffel tower has 1792 steps/

   29. If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of 1 every second it would take around 3000 years to count them all.

   30. Just 20 seconds of fuel remain when Apollo 11’s lunar module handed on the moon.

   31. A tigers’ paw prints are called pug marks.

   32. A 55kg crocodile exerts force of approximately 700kg between its jaws.

   33. 26 minutes of slow dancing will burn 420kilojoules.

   34. The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drown the weeds surrounding the seedlings.

   35. It takes an average 90 squirts from a cow’s udder to make a liter of milk.

   36. Horseracing regulations require no racehorse‘s name to contain more than 18 letters.

   37. Sheep will not drink from running water.

   38. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

   39. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, egg whites were a popular form of laundry detergent.

   40. The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.

   41. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.

   42. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920’s, was called crisphead.

   43. About 10kg of milk is needed to make 1 kilogram of natural cheese.

   44. The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm.

   45. The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.

   46. On average, women dream more than men.

   47. There are 34 bathrooms in the White House.

   48. The largest member of the cat family is the male lion weighing 240kg

   49. Candles burn slowly and evenly with little wax drippings if places in the freezer for an hour before using.

   50. When the human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off and you never get thirsty.

   51. Bees have to collect nectar from four million flower to make one kilogram of honey.

   52. The indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap the sediments in the wine.

   53. The short-term memory capacity of most people is between 5 and 9 items or digits.

   54. Mickey mouse had four fingers on each hand.

   55. The average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting for a traffic light to change.

   56. 120 drops of water fill a teaspoon.

   57. The Inca Indians of Panama tie a string of chillis behind their boat to repel sharks.

   58. The largest pumpkin ever grown recorded a weight of 482 kg.

   59. Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

   60. Ancient Romans believed chickpeas to be a powerful aphrodisiac, especially for men.

   61. Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on heir tongues.

   62. Researchers claim that light green as a colour is effective in relieving the feeling of homesickness.

   63. An average person sheds about 750 grams of skin per year.

   64. Embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother’s womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.

   65. Ancient Greek or Roman men had an average lifespan of 36 years.

   66. A fear of dying laughing is called cherophobia.

   67. A baby grey whale consumes enough milk to fill more than 2000 bottles a day.

   68. Snails have teeth.

   69. A “bap” is a hamburger bun in England.

   70. The gastric juices of a snake can digest cones and teeth but not fur or hair.

   71. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.