intersting facts
- LONGEST BRIDGE:
- BIGGEST PASSENGER-SHIP
MS Freedom of the Seas:4300 Pessengers
- BIGGEST BUS
- WORLD'S BIGGEST PLANE
- 3 MOST VALUABLE BRAND NAMES ON EARTH:
- Marlboro
- Coca-Cola
- Budweiser
- Male sea lion may have more than 100 wives and sometimes go three months without eating.
- Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.
- Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.
- About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
- Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
- A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
- A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
- The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
- The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
- Disneyland opened in 1955.
- Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
- Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
- Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
- Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.
- Evard Ericksen sculpted “The Little Mermaid” statue which is located in Copenhagen harbor.
- The Mona Lisa, by daVinci, is 2’6” by 1’9”.
- A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
- The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
- The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
- Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.
- Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
- Colgate claims "Tooth Fairy" as a registered trademark.
- 84% of a raw apple is water.
- A pineapple is a berry.
- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- Bananas are America's #1 fruit.
- A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
- Ants don't sleep.
- Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
- No two spider webs are the same.
- Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
- Bats have only one baby a year.
- The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
- Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
- Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
- A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
- Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
- Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.
- The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
- There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet.
- There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.
- You need approximately 2,000 berries to make one pound of coffee.
- There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.
- Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.
- Average number of hummingbirds required to create the weight of 1 ounce: 18.
- Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
- The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
- The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year.
- The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
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