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       57 facts
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 10:21 am
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       People who ride on roller coasters
       have a higher chance of having a
       blood clot in the brain.
       2. Black bears are not always black they
       can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and
       sometimes white.
       3. People with blue eyes see better in
       dark.
       4. Each year 30,000 people are
       seriously injured by exercise
       equipment.
       5. The placement of a donkey?s eyes in
       its head enables it to see all four feet.
       6. The sun is 330330 times larger than
       the earth.
       7. The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of
       milk in her lifetime.
       8. There are more female than male
       millionaires in the U.S.A.
       9. A male baboon can kill a leopard.
       10. When a person dies, hearing is
       usually the first sense to go.
       11. Bill gates house was designed using
       Macintosh computer.
       12. Nearly 22,000 cheques will be
       deducted from the wrong account
       over the next hour.
       13. Almost all varieties of breakfast
       cereals are made from grass.
       14. Some lions mates over 50 times a
       day.
       15. American did not commonly use
       forks until after the civil war.
       16. The most productive day of the week
       is Tuesday.
       17. In the 1930?s America track star
       Jesse Owens used to race against
       horses and dogs to earn a living.
       18. There is a great mushroom in
       Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It
       Covers 3.4 square miles of land and
       is still growing.
       19. Jimmy Carter is the first USA
       president to have born in hospital.
       20. Elephants are the only animals that
       cannot jump.
       21. Cleopatra married two of her
       brothers.
       22. Human birth control pill works on
       gorillas.
       23. The right lung takes in more air than
       the left.
       24. It is illegal to own a red car in
       shanghai china.
       25. A hard-boiled egg will spin. An
       uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
       26. Astronauts cannot burp in space.
       27. The snowiest city in the USA is Blue
       Canyon, California.
       28. Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the
       only fresh water lake in the world
       that has sharks.
       29. Kite flying is a professional sport in
       Thailand.
       30. The great warrior Genghis khan died
       in bed while having sex.
       31. No matter how cold it gets gasoline
       will not freeze.
       32. SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along
       135 rows on their tongue.
       33. A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
       34. Dolphins sleep with 1 eye open.
       35. A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3
       tones of food everyday, but at the
       same time can live without food for
       6 months.
       36. The EARTH has over 12,00,000
       species of animals, 3,00,000 species
       of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
       37. The fierce DINOSAUR was
       TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long
       & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat
       other dinosaurs.
       38. DEMETRIO was a mammal like
       REPTILE with a snail on its back. This
       acted as a radiator to cool the body
       of the animal.
       39. CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous
       BIRDS that can kill a man or animal
       by tearing off with its dagger like
       claw.
       40. The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers
       in its body.
       41. OSTRICH eats pebbles to help
       digestion by grinding up the
       ingested food.
       42. POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow
       but during chase on ice, can reach 25
       miles / hr of speed.
       43. KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt
       by sense of smell.
       44. ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much
       as 9 pounds.
       45. OWL is the only bird, which can
       rotate its head to 270 degrees.
       46. In the last 4000 years, no new
       animals have been domesticated.
       47. On average, people fear spiders
       more than they do death.
       48. The cigarette lighter was invented
       before the match.
       49. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
       print is different.
       50. Tapeworms range in size from about
       0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in
       length.
       51. German Shepherds bite humans
       more than any other breed of dog.
       52. A female mackerel lays about
       500,000 eggs at one time.
       53. Crane sleeps standing on one leg.
       54. Shark cannot see, they are very
       sensitive to sound.
       55. Sneezing stops heart beat for a
       second and then continues.
       56. Shape of the backbone is important
       to have sufficient breathing.
       57. Tortoise has very sharp teeth it can
       rip open the stomach of whale with
       its teeth.
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