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ANIMALS

The longest-existing species inhabiting the Earth is a deep sea snail Neopilina galatheae. It was found living at a depth of 3475m (11,400ft) off Costa Rica in 1952 - and fossil remains show that it has not changed at all in 500 million years. Ribbon Worms - named for their flat, ribbon-shaped body - far exceed any other kind of worm in length. The bootlace worm, Lineus longissimus, a type of ribbon worm, commonly grows to 5m (16.5ft). Some, however, have topped 30m (100ft), and a specimen washed ashore in Scotland in 1864 measured more than 55m (180ft) - the longest worm and the longest animal ever found.



The Cheetah is the fastest land animal on Earth reaching speeds up to 50mph in 3 seconds.



A typical swarm of locusts can be more than 30 miles long, 5 miles wide, contains an estimated 500,000 million insects and weighs about 80,000 tonnes. They can eat each day the weight of food that is needed by eight million people.



A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size. The largest penis belongs to the Blue Whale at eleven feet and is called a dork.



An Octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular and it has three hearts!



Any female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters.



A camel's backbone is just as straight as a horse's.



There are fewer than 1 million classified insects, but the actual total could be as much as five times that number. At least three-quarters of the known animal species in the world today are insects - and there are more than a million insects for every man, woman and child. Together, the world's insect population weighs about 12 times as much as the human one.



A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.



A deer cannot eat hay.



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A Kangaroo can cover 40 feet in one jump.



A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.



A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.



A jack rabbit can jump as high as 15 feet.



A rat can last longer without water than a camel.



A scallop has a total of 35 eyes which are all blue.



A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.



A square mile of fertile earth has 32,000,000 earthworms in it.



A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.



No two zebra have the same pattern or stripes.



Fish vary enormously in size. The smallest is the dwarf goby, a freshwater fish found in the Philippines, which can be less than 8mm (0.3in) long. The largest is believed to be the whale shark, which can be more than 18m (60ft) long. It weighs about 5000 million times as much as the goby, but despite it's immense size it is a placid animal that feeds on plankton. Although the whale shark is believed to be the largest fish, the largest recorded blue whale was 33.58m (110ft 2in) long. It was landed on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia in the early 20th century. Biologists have compared blue whales to a Boeing 747 airplane in terms of size.



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The largest carnivore is the sperm whale. A fully grown sperm whale can weigh 50 tonnes and grow up to 20m (66ft) in length. Sperm whales also have the heaviest brain, which can weigh more than 9kg (20lb), six times larger than a human brain. The whales head, which can be one third the length of it's entire body, contains up to 2300 litres (500 gallons) of pure oil. Early hunters wrongly believed this the fluid to be the animal's sperm, hence its name.



Sperm whales can dive 560 feet per minute, can reach the surface at 460 feet per minute and emits a sound as it expels air that can be heard half a mile away.



Some experts rate the stonefish as the most venomous fish of all. Every human being who has been stung by a stonefish and lived to tell the tale emphasises one thing - maddening, excruciating pain that can last as long as 12 hours. Some people who get stung die from drowning: the pain is so unbearable that they double up in the water and can think of nothing else.



The world's fastest moving animal is the peregrine falcon, which can swoop on it's prey at speeds of up to 350km/h (217mph)



South America's electric eels have enough power in their tails to light up to a dozen household bulbs - or kill a man on contact. The eels can release a shock of about 500 volts at 2 amps - as much power as is used by a single-bar electric fire. Despite it's name the, electric eel is not an eel at all. It is a type of freshwater fish related to carp and minnows.



Alligators can live to be around 50, with the oldest one in captivity living to be 66.



If you see a honey bee raise one of its middle legs, it is a warning that it is feeling threatened, and you should stay away!



Ostrich fossils found in parts of Russia and China date the bird back over 7 million years. When frightened, the ostrich can run up to 45 miles per hour.



The tiger shark, not the great white, has been responsible for more fatal attacks on man than any other species of shark.



The South African wolf spider has a total of eight eyes, allowing it to see in every direction at once.



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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. A goldfish is suspected of having a memory span of just three seconds and the oldest goldfish on record was 41 years old.



Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.



Most fruit flies die of constipation.



Basilisks are frequently called Jesus Christ Lizards because of their ability to run on water.



Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.



Between 1902 and 1907 the same tiger killed 436 people in India.



Cockroaches favourite food is the glue on the back of stamps.



There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all are deadly poisonous.



The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.



Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs



Dalmatian dog originate from Dalmatian coast of Croatia.



Alligators cannot move backwards.



An estimated 80% of animals on Earth have six legs.



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No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.



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



A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.



Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.



The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.



The fastest fish in the world is the sailfish. It has been timed at 110km/h (68mph). Tuna and some types of shark are also very fast, reaching speeds of 80km/h (50mph).



Camel's milk does not curdle.



In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.



Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.



Hamsters love to eat crickets.



An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.



Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.



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Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.



Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food. The average ant walks more than 50 miles per day!



A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat



The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter colour than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one.



A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.



Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.



Spider Monkies like banana daquiries.



The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.



Fossilized dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.



The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. A specimen washed up in New Zealand was 70 feet long and each eye measured 16 inches across.



Rabbits love liquorice.



Human birth control pills work on gorillas.



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The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth up to 7 miles away.



Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.



Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.



The female ferret is referred to as a jill.



The word rodent comes from the Latin word 'rodere' meaning to gnaw.



A type of jellyfish found off the coast of England is the longest jellyfish in the world.



Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.



A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.



The most venomous creature is the box jellyfish, which lives off the coast of Australia. Its venom can kill an adult human in 45 seconds.



Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they are three or four days old.



The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.



An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.



Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs -- fierce and agile herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an antelope-like, Asian forest creature.



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The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloth's and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.



Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.



There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.



Orcas (Killer Whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.



If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. Don't try this one, it is against the law in most countries.



Reindeer like to eat bananas.



A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.



Starfish don't have a brain or a heart and is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!



Humans, Chimpanzees, and Ants are the only organisms on Earth that wage organized warfare.



A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!



A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!



Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!



Dolphins sleep with one eye open!



Slugs have 4 noses!



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Humans and Dolphins are the only mammals to have sex for pleasure.



Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue, and the only creature capable of turning it's head in a complete circle!



All owls lay white eggs.



Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!



A jellyfish is 95 percent water, 3-4% salt and 1-2 % protein!



The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!



The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!



The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!



A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!



Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!



The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!



There are over 58 million dogs in the US!



Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!



Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!



The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same colour as grapejuice!

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Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!



The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!



Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!



Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!



Cats age ten years in the first six months of life.



Bulls are colour-blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what colour it is -- be it red or neon yellow!



One poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!



After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!



Five people were killed in unprovoked shark attacks in 2001. By contrast, 100 million sharks were caught and killed.



Porcupines float in water!



The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!



The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!



Cat's urine glows under a black-light!



The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!



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A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!



Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!



The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!



A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!



A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!



A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!



A cat cannot see directly under its nose, which is why they cannot often find food dropped on the floor.



A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!



Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!



The teeth take up more room in a horse's head than its brain does.



The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.



The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.



The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.



The Pug dog is thought to have gotten its name from looking like the pug monkey.



Only humans and horses have hymens.



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If a cockroach touches a person, it runs off to clean itself.



There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.



The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.



A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.



An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.



Spiders have transparent or pale blue blood.



Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.



Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."



Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards



A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.



Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.



The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.



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Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.



The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.



The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.



There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.



Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.



All porcupines float in water.



When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.



A cat has four rows of whiskers.



An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.



If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.



White cockatoos are the only parrots that can be sexed by eye color; females have a visible pupil while males have black irises.



A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat.



The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.



The Ragdoll is the largest breed of domesticated cat in the world, with adult males averaging 22-25

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pounds.



The smallest fish in the world is the Trimattum Nanus of the Chagos Archipelago. It measures 0.33 inches. It broke the record of the so- called "sinarapan" of Buhi, Camarines Sur, Philippines.



Ferrets sleep for about 20 hours a day.



The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the north slope. Unless the bear lives in the southern hemisphere.



The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.



When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.



Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.



It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.



Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.



The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.



A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of teats or nipples, usually twelve.



Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.



The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.



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Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.



Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.



Hippopotamuses do eighty percent of their vocalizations under water.



You can tell a girl crab from a boy crab by their stomachs. A girl has a beehive and a boy has a lighthouse.



Mongooses were brought to Hawai'i to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.



The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.



The Honey Badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.



Cats can hear ultrasound.



The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.



The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest.



A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks



The closest relative to the manatee is the elephant, scientists think the elephant crawled back into the sea to become a manatee.



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All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.



Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.



Some turtles can live for more than 200 years!



The smallest frog is the Gold frog (Psyllophryne Didactyla) of Brazil. They grow to only 3/8 inch long.



The biggest frog is the appropriately named Goliath frog (Conraua goliath) of Cameroon. They reach nearly a foot in length and weigh as much as 3.3 kilograms.



A dragonfly has an average life span of 24 hours.



The average lifespan of a housefly is 14 days.



The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.



A species of fish called "Anglers" live so far down in the ocean where there is no light, that they have their own flash lights growing from their bodies.



A rat can last longer without water than a camel.



A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.



A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.



This one might actually be a useful fact! Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog so if you want to give your dog chocolate as a treat you should only feed it with chocolate purchased from a pet store which is especially created for dogs.



Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

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Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.



The ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world.



Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes, are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour and only female mosquitoes bite.



The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth. Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses. Their heart is the size of the average family saloon, it has 176,000 litres of blood (compared to a humans 6 litres) and a small child could walk through the largest blood vessels. As a blue whale breaths they send up a spout of air and water vapour up to 7m (20 ft.) high. A blue whale calf drinks about 130 gallons of milk per day, and gains up to 200 pounds per day during periods of its nursing period, and as an adult blue whale it can eat up to 7,715 pounds of krill (small shrimp-like organisms) per day!



A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.



1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.



If a Lobster loses an eye it will grow another one.



A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.



More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.



Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating and has it’s genitals on its head.



A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.



A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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Polar bears are left-handed, and it's fur is not white, it's clear.



The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.



The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.



The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.



Some lions mate over 50 times a day.



Some butterflies taste with their feet.



The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!



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GENERAL

The 772-778 digits of pi are 9999998, the greatest sum of 7 consecutive digits in the first 1,000,000 or so digits.



The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.



Here is every word that can be displayed by a digital clock during the day. (Using the numbers which look like letters, with 9 as "g.")



zoo (2:00) sog (5:09) Bob (8:08) big (8:19) gib (9:18)



S.O.S. (5:05) sis (5:15) bog (8:09) goo (9:00) gig (9:19)



sob (5:08) boo (8:00) bib (8:18) gob (9:08)



So be sure to shriek whenever it's 8:00!



The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.



The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.



S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.



Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer



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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!



Easter is the first Sunday after the first Saturday after the first full moon after the equinox. (The equinox is quite often March 21, but can also occur on the March 20 or 22.)



The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"



If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.



Months that begins with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."



The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.



Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!



The screwdriver was invented before the screw.



The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters.



"Corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king."



There are only three world capitals that begin with the letter "O" in English: Ottawa, Canada; Oslo, Norway; and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.



"Polish" is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality.



If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."



Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the books title comes from.



October 10 is National Metric Day.



The original IBM punchcard is the same size as a Civil War era dollar bill.



A two-bit moon is in the first quarter.



Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old.



The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.



There are fourteen blimps in the world. Ten of the fourteen blimps are in the United States & the existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.



When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!



A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!



The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

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More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!



The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.



"Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."



Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.



Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.



The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator."



Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.



The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.



The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.



The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.



Most lipstick contains fish scales!



It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!



The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!



No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!



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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!



If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!



Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!



Clinophobia is the fear of beds!



A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!



On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.



The electric chair was invented by a dentist!



Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!



Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!



Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!



The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

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HUMAN ANATOMY

Doubling a child's height on his second birthday gives a close estimate to his final height. A boy of two is 49.5 percent of his adult height; a girl of two is 52.8 percent her adult height.



Each finger and toenail takes about six months to grow from it's base to the tip.



During pregnancy a woman's blood volume can increase by up to 50 percent to a total of 6.75 litres (12 pints) as a reserve against possible loss of blood during delivery.



If you were to sneeze, hiccup and pass gas all at the same time you would explode!!!



The brain accounts for about 3 percent of body weight. But it uses 20 percent of all oxygen we breathe, 20 percent of the calories in the food we eat and about 15 percent of the body's blood supply.



It is anatomically impossible to lick your elbow. And 70% of people that are told about this fact, try to lick their elbow!



The adult human body contains approximately 650 muscles, over 100 joints, 100,000km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels and 13,000 million nerve cells. An adult has 206 bones - nearly half of them in the hands and feet. A baby has 300 bones at birth, but 94 fuse together during childhood.



Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!



Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes - four times as much as concrete.



A man's testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells a day - enough in 18 months to populate the entire world!



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The heart beats more than 2000 million times during the average human life span, and in that time will pump around 500 million litres (110 million gallons) of blood. Even during sleep, the fist-sized heart of an adult pumps about 340 litres (75 gallons) an hour - enough to fill an average car's petrol tank every seven minutes. It generates enough muscle power every day to lift an average-sized car about 15m (50ft).



The lungs contain a total of 300,000 million capillaries - tiny blood vessels - which would stretch 2400km (1500 miles) if laid end to end.



The body of the average adult contains 45 litres (79 pints) of water - about 65 percent of it's weight.



The stomach's digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. But the cells in the stomach lining are renewed so quickly - 500,000 cells are replaced every minute and the entire lining every three days - that the acids do not have time to dissolve the lining.



The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.



If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.



The small intestine can be 26 feet long and the large intestine can measure 5 feet in length



Each kidney contains some 1 million individual filters and between them the two kidneys filter an average of about 1.3 litres (2.2 pints) of blood in a minute. The waste products are expelled as urine at the rate of about 1.4 litres (2.5 pints) a day.



The body's entire blood supply - about 4.5 litres (8 pints) - washes through the lungs about once every minute. Human red blood corpuscles are created by bone marrow at the rate of about 1.2 million corpuscles per second. Each lives for 100-120 days. In a lifetime the marrow creates about half a tonne of red corpuscles.



The body's largest organ is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9 square metres (20 square feet); a woman has about 1.6 square metres (17 square feet). The skin is constantly flaking away and being completely replaced by new tissue about once every 50 days. On average, each person sheds about 18kg (40lb) of skiteer lifetime.



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Besides water, the body contains an assortment of other substances. On average, it has enough lime to whitewash a small shed, the equivalent in carbon to a 12.7kg (28lb) bag of coke, enough phosphorus to make 2200 match heads, about a spoonful of sulphur, enough iron to make a 25mm (1in) nail - and about 30g (1oz) of other metals.



The focusing muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.



The retina inside the eye covers about 650 sq mm (1 sq in) and contains 137 million light-sensitive cells, 130 million rod cells for black-and-white vision; and 7 million cone cells for colour vision.



You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.



The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 litres (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his or her life.



The average human has about 5 million hairs on their bodies. Head hair grows at a rate of 10mm per month and on average, humans lose and replace up to 100 hairs a day.



The worlds tallest man was Robert Wadlow (1918-40) of the United States, who reached a height of 2.72m (8ft 11in). The worlds tallest woman was Zeng Jinlian (1964-82) of China. She was 2.47m (8ft 1.5in)tall.



The worlds heaviest person was an American. In 1978 he weighed an estimated 635kg (1400lb or 100 stone).



The oldest authenticated man was Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, who was born on June 29, 1865. He died , aged 120 years 237 days, on Feb 21, 1986.



The longest case of hiccups on record started to afflict an American, Charles Osborne, in 1922. It went on - at some 20 hiccups a minute - until 1990.



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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.



If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.



The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.



Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.



Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.



On average people fear spiders more than they do death.



One of the strongest muscles in the human body is the TONGUE (relative to size) . Others include the masseter (chewing muscle) and the Gluteus maximus (buttocks muscle). The Gluteus maximus is also the bulkiest muscle in the human body, whilst the latissimus dorsi (the broad muscle which covers the middle portion of back) has the largest surface area.



It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, it travels out your mouth at over 100 mph and when you sneeze all bodily functions stop--even you heart!



You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.



The germs present in human faeces can pass through up to ten layers of toilet paper.



The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.



Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing gum it does not stay in the gut. Usually it will pass through the system and be excreted without incident. However, several cases have been reported where the gum has stuck in the rectum, causing the unfortunate sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like a pink spider's web.



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Several well documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.



It is physically possible to cough your guts up.



If your body's natural defences failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.



What is one of the most difficult items for sewage works to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration systems? (Every month Thames Water removes over a ton of this substance from its water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away to a landfill site and buried) You guessed it pubic hair.



Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight. There are hundreds of millions of organisms sharing your body, there are more than 600 million individual bacteria on your skin alone. There is even an organism which lives in the follicle of each hair, which is related to the spider, and there is an organism living on each of your eye lashes. All of these organisms are not normally harmful if they stay where they are, and they are actually beneficial because they prevent more dangerous organisms and viruses from taking and multiplying.



The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 metres in length.



A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had safaried in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first she put down to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed...



The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.



The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula



Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.



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The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.



The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.



If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.



Human birth control pills work on gorillas.



Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from diastima. Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.



The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is the one located in the inner ear.



Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.



Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.



Human fecies can get up to 5 ft. long if surgically removed.



The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.



Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.



The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)



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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!



You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!



Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!



A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!



Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!



Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!



Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!



Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.



Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.



Only one-third of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.



After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe. A Laforte fracture is a fracture of all facial bones.



The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.



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The only way to stop the pain of the flathead fish's sting is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you.



The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.



You cannot tickle yourself.



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PEOPLE

More people are conceived in December than in any other month.



The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 years old and lived in China in 1910.



Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.



According to the World Overpopulation Awareness, there are twice as many people alive as there were in 1960



Peter the Great of Russia, in an effort to Westernize his land, taxed people for growing beards.



As a young lifeguard at a riverside beach near Dixon, Illinois, future 40th U.S. president Ronald Reagan rescued 77 people from drowning.



The 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford turned down offers to play professional football for the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions.



Both ambidextrous and multilingual, 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand while writing Latin with the other.



James Buchanan was the 15th U.S. president and the first unmarried man to be elected president.



Abraham Lincoln carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat.



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Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution! First U.S. president George Washington rejected a movement among army officers to make him king of the United States.



There have been 7 left-handed Presidents in US history.



The 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson allowed sheep to graze on the White House lawn during World War I; their wool helped raise money for the Red Cross.



March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' birthday.



Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.



Every second 3 people are born and 2 people die, a net gain of 3 people



Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.



A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.



Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.



There are more Samoans in Los Angeles than on American Samoa.



Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.



Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.



The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!



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Every person has a unique tongue print.



John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.



Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.



Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.



On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.



A red-headed man is more likely to go bald that anyone else.



Attila the Hun died from a nose-bleed.



Many years ago, the average person ate about 2 pounds of sugar a year!



Legend has it tortellini was created to honour Venus' belly button.



Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.



One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.



Michael Tolotos, who died at the age of 80, never saw a woman.



Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was, ironically, allergic to carrots.



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The average North American drinks 600 soft drinks (pop, soda, coke, depending on what part of the country you are from) a year. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.



Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.



Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in the Hawaiian language.



Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.



Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.



Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.



Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down-hence the expression "to get fired."



The only person to be elected to both the baseball and football Hall of Fames is Carl Hubble.



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PLACES

The smallest independent state in the world is the Vatican City, with a population of 750 and a nil birthrate.



Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude, the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.



Dublin comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means Blackpool.



The San Francisco Cable cars and the St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans are the nation's only mobile National Monuments.



West Virginia and Maryland have no natural lakes.



Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!



Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake in the world at 1,620 meters, nearly a mile deep. It is fed by 336 rivers and streams including the Angara, Barguzin, Selenga, Turka and Snezhnaya, the lake holds fifty species of fish including bullhead, sturgeon and omul.



Connecticut is the only state whose name is two words connected by a letter: "connect," "i," and "cut."



Only five countries in Europe touch only one other: Portugal, Denmark, San Marino, Vatican City, and Monaco.



South Dakota has the only state bird from Asia, the ring-necked pheasant.



Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium



There are approximately 2 ½ million rivets in the Eiffel Tower.



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The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's five oceans at 155.557 million sq km (followed by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean).The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest point of the Pacific (and the world) at 10,924 metres (Mount Everest is 8,850 metres high) . The Pacific Ocean is about 15 times the size of the US, covers about 28% of the global surface and is larger than the total land area of the world



Croatia was the first country to recognize the United States in 1776.



Every continent in the world has a city called Rome.



The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.



If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.



The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.



All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.



The only borough of New York City that isn't an island or part of an island is the Bronx.



Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth, the lowest temperature recorded was -129F recorded in 1983 at the Russian Base Vostok. Antarctica covers about 14-million square kilometres, or 10% of the earth's land surface. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest sheet of ice on earth, with an average depth of 7,200 feet.



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Tennessee and Missouri are bordered by more states than any other. Tennessee is bordered by eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Missouri is bordered by Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois.



The westernmost point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.



Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.



The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.



The Empire State Building in New York City has more than 10 million bricks and has 6,400 windows!



In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!



In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!



Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!



The state of Florida is bigger than England!



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



South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.



Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.



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In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.



The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.



Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.



The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.



The ZIP in Zip-code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan."



In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.



In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.



The largest school in the the world is a k-12 school in the Philippines, with an enrolment of about 25,000.



If you could cut out the United States, its centre of gravity would be at Friend, Nebraska.



Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other state in the USA.



Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!



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THE UNIVERSE

Distance & Time A light year is the distance light travels in one year - or about 9,461 million million kilometres (about 6 million million miles). The nearest star to earth besides the sun is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.3 light years away so If you were going to make a map or chart of the stars to scale and were going to let the distance between the earth and sun be only one inch, you would have to place the nearest star 4.3 miles away, of course you could not find a piece of paper large enough.



An astronomical unit (AU) is 93 million miles or the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun.



A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the Sun to revolve around the centre of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.



A sunbeam setting out through space at the rate of 186,000 miles a second would describe a gigantic circle and return to its origins after about 200 billion years.



Light from the Moon takes about a second and a half to reach Earth.



Light takes one-tenth of a second to travel from New York to London, 8 minutes to reach the Earth from the Sun, and 4.3 years to reach Earth from the nearest star.



The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.



Barnard's star is approaching the Sun at a speed of 87 miles/second. By the year 11,800, it will be the closest star to us.



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Galaxies, Stars & Quasars Some astronomers believe that a mysterious and invisible object in the stellar group known as Epsilon Aurigae may be the largest star know. They are not sure that the object is a star because it cannot be seen directly from Earth, but every so often it seems to cause a partial eclipse of its visible neighbour - for a staggering two years at a time. If the object is a star it is possible that it is as much as 3000 million km (2000 million miles) across - large enough, if it were in our solar system, to engulf all the planets out to Saturn.



A brown dwarf is a very small, dark object, with a mass less than 1/10 that of the Sun. They are "failed stars" – globules of gas that have shrunk under gravity, but failed to ignite and shine as stars.



A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the Sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the Sun that a man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the Sun.



Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth (outside our solar system), but it is more than four light years away and too small to be seen without a telescope. If it were possible to drive through space at a steady 120 km/h (75 mph), you could reach the Sun in a little over 142 years, but at the same speed it would take more than 38 million years to reach Proxima Centauri. Even travelling at the speed of the fastest space probe - 70 km/h (43.9 miles/sec) - it would still take over 18,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri.



Quasars are amazingly bright objects. A quasar generates 100 times as much light as the whole of our galaxy in a space not much larger than our solar system. A galaxy of typical size – about 100 billion suns – produces less energy than a single quasar.



A neutron star is the smallest star but has the strongest magnet in the universe. The magnetic field of a neutron star is a million million times stronger than Earth's magnetism. A typical neutron star is only about 15 miles across, yet it may contain as much mass as a star the size of the Sun. As a result a teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons. The surface temperature of a neutron star is about 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit. If an astronaut tried to land on a neutron star, he or she would be crushed by the extremely strong force of gravity, and squashed into a thin layer less than one atom thick. Some neutron stars spin 600 times a second, which is as fast as a dentist's drill, these are called quasars.



A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days. About 20 new stars are born each year. For comparison, there are 100,000 million stars in our galaxy.



A typical nova explosion releases about as much energy as the Sun emits in 10,000 years, or as much as in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 nuclear bombs. About 40 novae erupt in our galaxy each year.



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A white dwarf has a mass equal to that of the Sun, but a diameter only about that of Earth. A cupful of white dwarf material weighs about 22 tons, the same as five elephants.



Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars – and it is estimated by astronomers that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.



An estimated 10,000 million of the 100,000 million stars in our galaxy have died and produced white dwarfs.



As recently as half a century ago, there was no clear understanding as to why the Sun shines. The discovery that it is due to nuclear-fusion reactions was not made until the 1930s, by Hans Beth and Carl von Weizsacker.



The Tarantula nebula is the largest known. It is 160,000 light-years away. If it was as close to us as the Orion nebula, its light would cast shadows on Earth. It is thought to contain a huge star of over 1,000 times the mass of the Sun, ten times more massive than any star in the Milky Way.



The Veil nebula was formed by an explosion which took place over 30,000 years ago, when the first people lived on Earth.



If a red giant star was the size of an ordinary living room, its energy-generating core would be the size of the period at the end of this sentence.



General According to Professor David Saunders of the Psychology Department of the University of Chicago, abnormally large numbers of UFO sightings occur every 61 months, usually at distances from 1,500 to 2,000 miles apart. About 68 percent of adults believe that during the next century evidence will be discovered that shows other life in this or other galaxies.



Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the Moon with his left foot



Astronomers believe that the universe contains one atom for every 88 gallons of space.



Free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.



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Physicists now believe the universe to be three billion years younger than previously thought. New information gathered by the Hipparcos satellite, combined with a reanalysis of other distance data, has enabled researchers to refine the lower age limit of the universe to 9.6 billion years.



The tails of comets generally point away from the Sun whether the comet is approaching the sun or receding.



Scientists believe that hydrogen comprises approximately 90 to 99 percent of all matter in the universe.



Halley's comet, one of the most famous ever known, returns to Earth every 76 years, and has been observed and recorded for more than 3,000 years



If a baseball-sized piece of a supernova star (known to astronomers as a pulsar) were brought to Earth, it would weigh more than the Empire State building.



If an object has no molecules, the concept of temperature is meaningless. That's why it's technically incorrect to speak of the "cold of outer space" — space has no temperature, and is known as a "temperature sink," meaning it drains heat out of things.



The Ulysses Solar Mission revealed that matter flows outward from the South Pole of the Sun at a rate of one million tons per second.



The universe is thought to be about 15,000 million years old. Put another way, if the years flashed by at a rate of one each second, the universe would already be nearly 47 years old.



Space dust is extremely small – smaller than a particle of smoke – and widely separated, with more than 320 feet between particles.



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The Sun: The weight of the Sun is estimated to be two billion billion billion tons, about 333,420 times that of the Earth.



The Sun is about midway in the scale of star sizes, but most are smaller ones. Only five percent of the stars in our galaxy are larger than the Sun.



The Sun is colossal. It contains 99.8 percent of the total mass of the solar system. More than one million Earth's would be required to match its volume.



The Sun isn't round. It is flattened on the top and the bottom.



A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the Sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the Sun that a man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the Sun.



A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the centre of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.



All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.



An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.



At its centre, the Sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius.



Because it is pouring energy out into space so rapidly, the Sun is a weight equivalent to a million elephants to a million elephants every second.



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Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.



Four million tons of hydrogen dust are destroyed on the Sun every second



The Sun produces more energy every minute than all the energy used on Earth in a whole year.



The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day. This means that 54,000 horsepower is delivered to every man, woman, and child on Earth in each 24-hour period.



The Sun’s solar wind is so powerful, it has large effects on the tails of comets, and scientists have determined that it even has measurable effects on the trajectories of spacecraft.



Giant flames called prominences shoot out from the Sun's surfaces for 310,000 miles, more than the distance from Earth to the moon. The entire Earth could fit into one of these flames nearly 40 times.



If a pin was heated to the same temperature as the centre of the Sun, its heat would set alight everything within 60 miles of it.



The pressure at the centre of the sun is about 700 million tons per square inch. It's enough to smash atoms, expose the inner nuclei, and allow them to smash into each other, interact, and produce the radiation that gives off light and warmth.



The smallest visible sunspots have an area of 500 million square miles, about fifty times the size of Africa. The largest sunspots have an area of about 7,000 million square miles.



The Sun looks 1600 times fainter from Pluto than it does from the Earth.



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The Planets: A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the Sun in slightly less than 88 days.



According to scientists, gold exists on Mars, Mercury, and Venus.



Mercury has been known since about the third millennium B.C. The planet was given two names by the Greeks: Apollo, for its apparition as a morning star, and Hermes as an evening star. Greek astronomers knew, however, that the two names referred to the same body.



Temperature variations on Mercury are the most extreme in the solar system, ranging from 90 K to 700 K.



According to scientists, gold exists on Mars, Mercury, and Venus.



On Venus, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, the opposite of the Earth. Venus rotates from east to west, not from west to east as the Earth and the other planets do.



The surface of Venus is actually hotter than Mercury's, despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun.



Venus has no magnetic field, perhaps because of its slow rotation. It also has no satellites.



Venus is much brighter than any other planet or star. At its brightest it can cast shadow, and even be seen during the day time.



Venus is the planet that turns most slowly on its axis. It spins once every 243 Earth days. Since Venus takes 224 Earth days to complete one orbit of the Sun, its days are longer than its years.



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The diameter of Venus is only about 400 miles less than that of Earth.



Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun, so consequently, it has no seasons.



Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love.



Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. It travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.



The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!



A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second to escape Earth's gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about 20 seconds



About 27 tons of dust rains down on the earth each day from space, making a total of almost 10,000 tons each year



Aristarchus, a Greek astronomer living about 200 B.C., reportedly was the first person to declare that the Earth revolved around the Sun. His theory was disregarded for hundreds of years.



As of 1978, there were approximately 4,500 pieces of equipment revolving around the earth. About 900 of these pieces were satellites, the rest were added bits of debris.



At the height of a hundred miles, air is only a billionth as dense as it is on Earth's surface. Even so, the total amount of air that is higher than the hundred-mile level comes to 6 million tons.



Less than 50 percent of American adults understand that Earth orbits the Sun yearly, according to a basic science survey.



Earth is putting on weight day by day as meteors and microscopic space dust falls from space. If the world were to become totally flat and the oceans distributed themselves evenly over the earth's surface, the water would be approximately 2 miles deep at every point.



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If Earth was the size of an apple, the atmospheric layer would be no thicker than the skin of the apple.



The temperature of Earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.



Salt water covers more than seven-tenths of the Earth's surface. We now know that there are high mountains, deep trenches and volcanoes hidden from sight under the waves.



The Pacific, the biggest ocean, is larger than all of the Earth's land area added together. It covers about 166,241,000 sq km ( 64,186,000 sq miles ).The deepest place in the sea is in the Marianas Trench in the Pacific. The water there is 11,033 m ( 36,198 ft ) deep. If the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest (29,141 feet), were to be placed into this trench, it would be covered by over 1.25 miles of water.



The world's highest peak on land is Mount Forest in the Himalayas. It is 8,848 m ( 29,028 ft ) tall. The world's highest mountain, from its base on the ocean floor, is Mauma Kea, on Hawaii. It is 10,203 m high ( 33,474 ft ) but only 4,205 m ( 13,796 ft ) is above sea level. The biggest rift valley runs through East Africa into southwest Asia and is 5,600 km ( 3,500 miles ) long.



The World's longest river is the Nile in East Africa. It measures 6,671 km ( 4,145 miles ) from its source to the point where it meets the sea.



About one-fiftieth of the world's fresh water is frozen in the huge ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, in ice caps in such places as Canada, and in glaciers.



The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela. It tumbles 979 m ( 3, 212 ft ) over a cliff in a highland area.



In the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, USA, the cave system is about 560 km ( 348 miles ) long. The Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is the world's biggest Cavern. It is700 m ( 2,297 ft ) long and over 70 m ( 230 ft ) high.



The world's largest desert is the Sahara. It stretches across North Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and covers about 8 million sq km ( 3 million sq miles ).



The lowest known air temperature, -89.2 degrees C ( -128.6 degrees F ) was recorded at the Soviet Vostok research station in Antarctica in 1983.



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In parts of Antarctica, the ice is 4,800 m ( 15,748 ft ) thick.



Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to photograph Mars.



According to scientists, gold exists on Mars, Mercury, and Venus.



Afternoon temperatures on Mars go up to about 80 degrees in some areas, and down to -190 degrees F at night.



An object weighing 100 pounds on Earth would weigh just 38 pounds on Mars.



Deimos, one of the moons of Mars, rises and sets twice a day.



Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, is so close to its parent planet that it could not be seen by an observer standing at either of Mars poles. Phobos make three complete orbits around Mars every day.



Statistically, UFO sightings are at their greatest number during those times when Mars is closest to Earth.



The atmosphere of Mars is relatively moist. However, because the atmosphere is thin, the total amount of water in the atmosphere is minimal. If all the water in the atmosphere of Mars was collected, it would likely only fill a small pond The seasons on Mars are more exaggerated and last much longer than on Earth



The largest mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on Mars. At a height of over 26 km (16 mi.), it is nearly 3 times taller than Mt. Everest. Olympus Mons is also enormous in its width: 600 km (360 mi.) across.

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On the planet Jupiter, your weight would be nearly three times greater than it is on Earth.



All of the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter



Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, weighs over twice as much as all of the other known planets combined.



Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, is actually larger than the planet Mercury. It is 3,275 miles in diameter.



Jupiter is much smaller than the Sun. If the Sun was the size of a basketball, 1 foot across, Jupiter would be the size of a table tennis ball 1 inch across.



Jupiter is the largest planet, and it has the shortest day. Although Jupiter has a circumference of 280,000 miles, compared with Earth's 25,000, Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.



Jupiter is two-and-a-half times larger than all the other planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets of our solar system combined.



Jupiter spins faster than any other planet. A point on the equator of Jupiter spins faster around the centre of the planet at a speed of 28,273 mph. The speed of the spin makes the planet bulge slightly at its equator.



The planet Jupiter is named after the supreme god of the Romans. He was the god of the sky, the bringer of light, hurling lightning bolts down on the world when displeased.



The pressure at the centre of the Earth is 27,000 tons per square inch. At the centre of the giant planet Jupiter, the pressure is three times as great.



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Besides Earth, only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have known magnetic fields.



One year on Saturn is 29 and a half times longer than ours, but its day is shorter than ours, 11 and a half hours.



Saturn has the greatest number of known moons of any planet in the solar system. Its largest moon is named Titan.



Saturn is much farther away from the Sun than Earth is. It takes Saturn approximately 29.48 Earth years to circle the Sun.



Three spacecraft have visited Saturn: Pioneer 11 (1979), Voyager 1 (1980), and Voyager 2 (1981).



Saturn would float on water if there was an ocean large enough to accommodate it because of its density. However, Saturn is 95 times heavier than the Earth.



The Earth is the most dense planet – five times denser than water, while Saturn is the least dense. It has a density 0.7 times that of water.



Winds ten times stronger than a hurricane on Earth blow around Saturn's equator. Wind speeds can reach 1,100 mph.



Saturn is named after the Roman god of seedtime and harvest.



The average surface temperature of the outer planets – Uranus, Neptune, Pluto – is about -364°F, 11 times colder than inside a home freezer.



The seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus, is tipped on its side so that at any moment one pole is pointed at the Sun. The polar regions are warmer than the equator. At the poles, a day lasts for 42 Earth years, followed by an equally long night.



The seasons on Uranus are the longest in the solar system. Winters and Summers are 21 Earth years long.

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Besides Earth, only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have known magnetic fields.



Since Neptune's discovery in 1846, it has made about three-quarters of one revolution of the sun.



The coldest place in the solar system is the surface of Neptune's largest moon Triton, which has a temperature of -391 degrees Fahrenheit, only 69 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero.



The discovery of Neptune was announced in 1846. But when astronomers checked previous records, they found the record of an observation of the planet as far back as 1795 by astronomers who, believing it to be a star, recorded the position routinely.



Some astronomers believe Pluto's strange and erratic orbit indicates that it wasn't one of the original planets at all, but rather, a moon of Neptune that somehow broke loose.



To an observer standing on Pluto, the Sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.



Travelling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to Earth



Pluto is a little smaller than Earth’s moon.



Some scientists believe that the Moon was created when a rock the size of Mars slammed into Earth, shortly after the solar system began forming about 4.5 billion years ago.



The temperature on the Moon reaches 243 degrees Fahrenheit at midday on the lunar equator. During the night, the temperature falls to -261 degrees Fahrenheit.



A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.

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The moon is actually moving away from earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.



The moon is not round, but egg shaped with the large end pointed towards Earth.



A blue moon is a phenomenon that happens when two full moons occur in the same calendar month. Blue moons occur every 33 months on average and should happen again in July 2004.



From Earth we can only see about 59% of the Moon's surface at any time.



Our Moon is bigger than Pluto.



The Moon's heavily cratered surface is the result of intense pummelling by space rocks between 4.0 billion and 3.8 billion years ago.



There is no air on the Moon, but it has recently been announced that water is definitely present



Man first landed on the Moon in 1969. This trip was followed by five more missions the last being in 1972



Jupiter's Moon Europa is 1,950 miles (3,138 kilometres) in diameter. It is 416,900 miles (670,936 kilometres) from Jupiter, orbiting once every 3.6 days.



Europa is about the same size as our moon.



The Europa Orbiter mission, scheduled for launch in 2003, will attempt to further characterize the Jovian moon’s ocean.



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Along with Mars scientists believe Europa is the most likely place in our universe that extraterrestrial life may exist.



Europa was first discovered by Galileo in 1610



Scientists recently reported that they are finding up to 4 meteorites per month that could potentially cause major damage if they ever collide with the Earth.



A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.



Estimates are that at least a million meteors have hit Earth's land surface, which is only 25 percent of the planet. Every last trace of more than 99 percent of the craters thus formed has vanished, erased by the effects of wind, water and living things.



Five times as many meteors can be seen after midnight as can seen before.



The larges impact of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet, which struck Jupiter in 1994 created a plume larger that the Earth.



The single largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Hoba Meteorite, discovered in 1920 in the southwest African country of Namibia. It weighs an estimated 66 short tons (60 metric tons).



The largest known impact crater is the Sudbury Crater in Ontario, Canada. It is about 120 miles (200 kilometres) in diameter. Scientists believe it was created 1.85 billion years ago by a meteorite with an estimated diameter of 6 miles (10 kilometres). The only person in the United States known to have been struck by a meteorite was Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of Sylacauga, Ala. She was resting on a sofa in 1954, when a meteorite weighing about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) crashed through the roof, bounced off a radio, and bruised her thigh, according to news reports at the time.



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Although meteorites land all over the world, Antarctica is one of the best places to find them. One reason is that Antarctic ice sheets hold a large store of meteorites that have landed over time and have become buried in the ice. The meteorites are carried along as the ice sheets move toward the sea. Sometimes, the ice sheets are pushed up against mountains that block their path. The upward moving ice is then eroded by wind, and the meteorites are exposed. Meteorites landing in Antarctica are also less likely than meteorites falling elsewhere to have been damaged by such geologic processes as weathering or to have been contaminated by human beings or other organisms.



Impact craters created by meteorite crashes have been found on Mercury, Venus, and Mars and on the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.



Meteorites are seldom spherical. Most have an irregular shape.



Although the temperature of the external surface of meteorites can exceed 3,600 °F (2,000 °C) as they travel through Earth’s upper atmosphere, they are cool by the time they land.



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QUESTIONS

There are many questions in life, below are 101 of them that are not asked that often.



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How does the guy who drives the snowplough get to work in the mornings? If you delete a file from your hard drive, where does it go? How is it possible to have a civil war? How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn't have anything to jot it down on? 5. How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't grow in it? 6. Did Adam and Eve have navels? 7. How do you know when yogurt goes bad? 8. If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? 9. How do you know when you're out of invisible ink? 10.If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? 11.If a chronic liar tells you he is a chronic liar do you believe him? 12.If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound? 13.If a bus station is where a bus stops, and a train station is where a train stops, why do I work at a work station? 14.If a synchronized swimmer drowns, does her partner also have to drown? 15.If a cat always lands on its feet, and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat? 16.If a man speaks and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong? 17.If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? 18.If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working? 19.If God sneezes...what should you say? 20.If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? 21.If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 22.If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? 23.If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? 24.If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill their self, is it considered a hostage situation? 25.If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from? 26.If quitters never win, and winners never quit, who came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"? 27.If the folks at the psychic hotlines were really psychic, wouldn't they call you first? 28.If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? 29.If you dive into a pool of dry ice, can you swim without getting wet? 30.If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong? 31.If you're travelling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? 32.If you got into a taxi and he started driving backwards, would the driver end up owing you money? 33.If you have an open mind why don't your brains fall out? 34.If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?



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35.Isn't it a little scary that a doctors work is called practice? 36.There are 24 hours in a day, and 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? 37.What do sheep count when they can't sleep? 38.What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free? 39.What is another word for thesaurus? 40.What is the speed of dark? 41.What was the best thing before sliced bread? 42.When people lose weight, where does it go? 43.Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there? 44.Why are there Braille signs on drive-up ATM's? 45.Why does your nose run, and your feet smell? 46.Why don't sheep shrink in the rain? 47.Why is there an eject button on the VCR remote when you still have to get up to remove the tape? 48.Why isn't there mouse-flavoured cat food? 49.Would a fly without wings be called a walk? 50.How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?



51.Why do they report power outages on TV? 52.Why do people who know the least know it the loudest? 53.How can you fight fire with fire? 54.Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections? 55.Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? 56.Is it ok to use an AM radio in the afternoon? 57.If flying is safe, why is the airport called the terminal? 58.Do Chickens think rubber humans are funny? 59.Is a mute with the shakes considered a stutter? 60.Why don't they call moustaches "mouthbrows"? 61.How do you throw away a garbage can? 62.Why is it called a MISSile if it was made to hit things? 63.Who took the bite out of the apple computer logo? 64.What are hot dogs made of? 65.If a cop arrested a mime, would they tell him he has the right to speak? 66.Scientists say the universe is expanding all the time but what is it expanding in to? 67.Why do people eat eggs when they KNOW where they came from?? eeek 68.When you're sending someone Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? 69.Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? 70.How come wrong numbers are never busy? 71.Why have an expiration date on sour cream? 72.Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime? 73.If you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant...what do you do? 74.When a monkey farts, does it smell like bananas?

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75.Why does round pizza come in a square box? 76.Why do black tires produce white smoke ? 77.If pants are called a 'pair of pants'.. why aren't bras? 78.If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? 79.If man evolved from monkeys and apes, then why do we still have monkeys and apes? 80.Who's cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it. 81.Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? 82.Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? 83.Why is it when your computer freezes, people keep on pushing more and more buttons? 84.What colour does a smurf turn when you choke it? 85.Is a sleeping bull a bull-dozer? 86.what happens when you get scared half to death twice? 87.Tell a man there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it. 88.How did a fool and his money get together? 89.Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets? 90.Can fat people go skinny-dipping? 91.If a seagull flew over the bay, would it be called a bagel ? 92.If superman can't be hurt by bullets, why does he duck when they throw the gun? 93.Should a mute be yelled at for talking with their hands full ? 94.Who tows the tow trucks when they break down? 95.What does it mean if you break a mirror with a rabbit's foot? 96.Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? 97.Why is a boxing ring square? 98.Who killed the Dead Sea? 99.What was the best thing before sliced bread? 100.Is duck tape made out of ducks? 101.Why are you reading this page?



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