Can anyone tell me one interesting fact that I don't already know??

Question

It can be anything at all. About any topic.
Plz answer ignore the catorgry

Answer 1

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

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

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Answer 2

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby! Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. (Ironic how the main charature is a mouse. =) If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old. (And they say chocolate is bad for kids.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Can you tell im random...♥

Answer 3

Math Fact:

1 million seconds is about 2 weeks
1 billion seconds is about 30 years


Fun Fact:
You've heard the saying "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

In the 1800s, bathing was a luxury. The man of the house got the first opportunity to bathe in clean, sudsy water in a washtub, then came the older sons (using the same sudsy water), then came Mom, then daughters and finally the baby.

By the time the baby got a bath, the water was so nasty and murky, the baby would often get dumped along with the bathwater.

Answer 4

1. A Jellyfish is 95% of water.
2. A Jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
3. About ten percent of Jewish households have Christmas tees. (March, 2006)
4. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
5. An Apple, Potato & Onion taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.
6. At one feeding, a mosquito can absorb 11/2 times it own blood.
7. Atlantic Ocean is saltier than Pacific Ocean. (Feb, 2006)
8. Banging your head against the wall uses 150 calories an hour.
9. Bill Gates house was designed by using a Macintosh computer.
10. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened can dribbled like basketball.
11. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. (Feb, 2006)
12. Forty-one percent of the moon is not visible from Earth at any time.
13. In Idaho, it is illegal to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. (Feb, 2006)
14. In Webster’s 1996dictionary, 315 entries were miss spelled.
15. Iron weighs more after it rusts.
16. James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
17. Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
18. Mercury completes a day after completes 59 days.
19. Mercury has a morning temp of 4270C where as it has –1730C at night.
20. Mercury is a Roman name.
21. Mercury is called Apollo when seen at sunrise & Hermes when seen at sunset by Greek.
22. Mercury revolves around the sun at a rate of 1,72,000 Km/hr.
23. Mercury revolves one and a half times / year.
24. Mercury takes 1,416 Hrs where as Earth takes 24 Hrs/day.
25. Mercury takes 88 days where as Earth takes 365 days for a revolution.
26. Money isn’t made of paper; it’s made of cotton. (Feb, 2006)
27. More than 2,500 LH people a year are killed from using products made for RH people. (Feb, 2006)
28. No matter how cold it gets, Gasoline does not freeze.
29. On an average, 12 new born will be given to wrong parent, daily. (Feb, 2006)
30. On an average, right-handers live 8 years more than left. (Feb, 2006)
31. Redheads require more anesthesia to ‘go under’ than other hair colours do. (Feb, 2006)
32. Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.
33. Rudyard Kipling refused to write with any thing other than Black Ink.
34. Some asteroids have other asteroids revolving around them.
35. Surgeons who listen to music during operation perform better than who doesn’t.
36. The seed of double coconut tree weighs 20 KGs &takes 10Yrs to germinate.
37. The temperature of Earth’s interior increases by 10C every sixty feet down. (March, 2006)
38. The university of Alaska stretches over four time zones.
39. There were no punctuations until 15th century.

Answer 5

In the 1970s The National Lampoon Magazine was referred to as "NatLamp."

Answer 6

Mickey and Minnie Mouse aren't married, but Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, who provide their voices, met "on the job" and got married in real life.

Oh, and the thing about throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't true.

Answer 7

There are over 200 languages spoken in Nigeria, a large West African Country

Answer 8

The most culturally diverse state in Malaysia is Sabah, followed by Sarawak.

Answer 9

Did you know that i want to thank you for the 2 points lol...I can't think of anything except 2+2=Jello

Answer 10

Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.