Friday, November 18, 2011

Did you know??

In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the british

An adult giraffe’s tongue is 17 inches long.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines

A hedgehogs heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats a minute during hibernation

The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.

The sloth moves so slowly that it’s fur offers a comfortable environment for algae to grow.

In 1936, England became the first country in the world to provide regular public broadcasting on television.

We blink our eyes about once every 6 seconds. We blink about 250 million times in the course of a lifetime.

The fleshy projection above the bill of a turkey is called a snood.

Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

Pepsi-Cola was originally called “Brad’s drink”.

An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.

Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of French fries a week.

You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

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