True Facts
These aren't guaranteed to be true, but they probably are.
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There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror
2006-12-14 13:58:11 · 12 answers · asked by Dharshi 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
You always have such neat facts.
2006-12-15 12:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by Marenight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bell didn't really invent the telephone. That originated with Antonio Meucci. Congress acknowledged that a few years ago. Bell had the phone patented but it doesn't mean he invented it as Meucci did it before him but Meucci didn't have enough money to get a patent.
2006-12-15 10:12:08 · answer #2 · answered by Neji Hyuga 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice
2016-03-29 07:43:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
such a long list and u said it's part 1?
I only read some of 'em and they make sense to me I would rate 'em 3 stars for average.
2006-12-14 14:03:19 · answer #4 · answered by they're savages 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Entertainment !
Can I know sources pls !
2006-12-16 02:49:11 · answer #5 · answered by Cupid Express 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG im never eating a bar of chocolate again, thats gross.
2006-12-14 14:15:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
xcuse me i WORKED in a chocolate factory n i NOE dat they don't put insect legs
geezzzzzzzzzzz made up facts
2006-12-14 20:15:19 · answer #7 · answered by ~~*justlovebollywood!!!!*~~ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
amazing facts
2006-12-14 14:27:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a great collection.
Keep it up.
2006-12-14 20:45:43 · answer #9 · answered by Ss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW!!!
that was a good piece of information!!!
2006-12-14 18:37:29 · answer #10 · answered by tammy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋