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Some Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known..

------------------The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long

Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile

A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years..A boeing 747's wing span is longer than the brother's first flight.(the brother's invented the airplane)There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

One type of hummingbird weighs less than a pennyThe word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language;192Slugs have four nosesSharks can live up to 100 years

Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.Kangaroos can't walk backwardsAbout 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everydayThe largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom..Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints

There are 200,000,000 insects for every one humanIt takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002

Octopus have three hearts If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orangeThe average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116orold

The body has 2-3 million sweat glandsSperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbsTiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.Most cats are left pawed

250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of PisaA Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephantYou use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling! Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours

An eyeball weighs about 1 ounceBone is five times stronger than steel.