DID YOU

KNOW?

Fingernails grow 4 times faster then toenails.

An annoyed camel will spit at a person.

A giraffe can clean it’s ears with it’s 20 inch tongue.

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

A housefly lives only 14 days.

When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone serviced by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.

English sailors came to be called limeys after using lime juice to combat scurvy.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

Your mouth produces 1.8 pints of saliva per day.

Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.

It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.

China uses 45 billion chop sticks per years. 25 million trees are chopped down to make them.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

The harmonica is world's best selling music instrument.

Melba Toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861 - 1931).

To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

A square piece of paper cannot be folded in half more than seven times.

The names of all continents both start and end with the same letter.

Asia Africa Europe Antarctica Australia North America South America

Cats spend 66% of their life sleeping.

An ostrich can run up to 43 mph.

M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials of its inventors Mars and Murrie.

Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.

Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.

Frogs don’t drink (they absorb water through their skin).

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

It’s physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks.

The WD in WD-40 stands for water displacer.

The life span of a squirrel is 9 years.

Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old.

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

The average American eats 263 eggs a year.

Snakes can’t blink their eyes.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).

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

You have to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on 1 pound of weight. ( a plain potato has no more calories than an apple ).

The most valuable nutrients of a potato are in it’s skin.

A leather whip makes a cracking sound because it’s tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people can detect leaks).

It takes an oyster 5 years to produce a medium sized pearl.

There are 132 rooms in the White House.

The first credit card was a Diner’s Club Card issued in 1950.

Laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system.

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