- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- If the population of china walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
- At the turn of the century, most lightbulbs were handblown, and the cost of one was equivalent to half a day's pay for the average U.S. worker.
- Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro.
- The Earth moves in its 585-million-mile orbit around the Sun approximately eight times faster than a bullet travels.
- A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
- A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
- All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
- A bibliophile is a collector/seller/lover of rare books.
Showing posts with label Interesting Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interesting Facts. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Ten Interesting Facts Issue 3
Monday, February 17, 2014
Ten Interesting Fun Facts 2
- The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
- 84% of a raw apple is water.
- A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
- Over 85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.
- A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
- The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name beard
- A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Ten Interesting Fun Facts Issue 1
10 Facts To Brighten Up Your Monday
- A bat is the only mammal that flies.
- A word or sentence that is the same front and back - racecar, kayak - is called a "palindrome".
- A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
- A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip (Find them on Twitter)
- The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
- About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
- There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
- There are more bacteria in your mouth than people on the earth.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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