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(Again, thanks to emlii.com, lifebuzz.com & factsd.com.)
In the span of 63 years,
we went from taking flight to landing on the moon.
In 1903 the Wright
brothers successfully flew a plane for a whopping 59 seconds. 38 years later,
in 1941, the Japanese used flight to bomb Pearl Harbor. Only 28 years after
that, Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.
Breastfeeding
allows a baby to give germs to mothers so that her immune system can respond
and can synthesize antibodies for her baby.
Our eyes are
always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The Spanish
national anthem has no words.
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
Scientists
claim that the higher your I.Q., the more you dream in your sleep.
Chewing gum
makes a person fart more than usual. You’ll swallow more air then you normally
would and that leads to flatulence.
The extra
weight of obesity costs airlines $275 million per year.
Nintendo was originally a trading card company.
The Facebook
Like button was originally planned to be named the Awesome button.
There are
more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on Earth.
Leonardo da
Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy
would be the size of the United States.
Two-thirds
of the people on earth have never seen snow.
Most dust
particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Eating a
teaspoon of sugar after having something spicy can help neutralize the burning
sensation.
For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.The total weight
of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.
Right handed
people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed
people do.
A humming
bird weighs less than a penny.
Fifteen
percent of the air you breathe in a metro station is human skin.
On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.
You are more
likely to die from a falling coconut than a shark attack.
The average
mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of
dust mites and dust mite poop.
Earth is the
only planet not named after a god.
Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as
large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.
An ostrich’s
eye is bigger than its brain.
Polar bears
trying to blend in with ice will cover up their black nose with their paws.
Blue whale
fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse. Also, whales that
sing in the wrong key get lost and are alone in the ocean.
A strawberry is NOT a berry, but a banana IS.
If two
pieces of the same type of metal touch in outer space, they will bond together
permanently.
If you were
to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on
earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
Flamingos
can only eat with their heads upside down.
There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
Coffee was
originally called ‘Arabic Wine’ when it was first brought to Europe.
Elephant
babies suck on their trunks the way human babies suck their thumbs.
Before
mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
An octopus has three hearts, but a jellyfish has none, nor does it have a brain.
HAPPY LABOR DAY!!
Now you are also a genuiz jeanuis geinuse as
smart as I am----fishducky
