interesting fast facts

Interesting Fast FactsPart 2

The words ‘racecar’, ‘kayak’, and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read

left to right or right to left.(palindromes)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

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

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

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.

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.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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

There are more chicken than people in the world.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Every day is about 55 billionths of a

second longer than the day before it.

Fingerprints of koala bears are similar

(in pattern, shape, and size) to the fingerprints of

humans.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

As of 2006, more than 1 in 8 people in the United States show signs of

addiction to the Internet.

The more panels a football has-and therefore the more seams- the easier

it is to control in the air.

Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.

The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.

The total combined weight of the world’s ant population is heavier

than the weight of the human population.

The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number

of people that have EVER died.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the United States.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

“Jaws” is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.

Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

In a normal lifetime, an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts.

America’s best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

There are 7 points on the Statue of

Liberty’s crown.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The average American eats 263 eggs a year.

The first zoo in the United States was located in Philadelphia.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E & F is

“feedback”.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

To see a rainbow, you must have your back to the sun.

The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.

The average American drinks enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.

Coca-cola was originally green.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was “Tom

Sawyer”.

The highest point in PA is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the

traffic light to change.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Starfish do not have brains.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Polar bears are left-handed.