1. Snake venom is ninety percent protein
2. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
3. Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day
4. Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer
5. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes
6. A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
7. If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles
8. If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court
9. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints
10. Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call
11. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted
12. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
13. Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour
14. In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas
15. Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
16. In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent
17. The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
18. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle
19. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name
20. On average, a person has two million sweat glands
21. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
22. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
23. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
24. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
25. 97% of the earth's water is undrinkable
26. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it
27. All babies are color blind when they are born
28. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old
29. 14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed
30. There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script
31. Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses
32. On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat
33. There are no public toilets in Peru
34. Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients
35. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
36. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
37. Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize
38. The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake
39. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney"
40. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it
41. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
42. The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
43. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
44. There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world
45. X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one
46. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
47. It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour
48. Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
49. Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982
50. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
51. Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.
52. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time
53. Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains
54. Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet
55. The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent
56. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe
57. Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures
58. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
59. Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day
60. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
61. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
62. Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF
63. The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas
64. Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years
65. Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness
66. The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe one's fingers and hands on after eating
67. Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year
68. Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand
69. The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees
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