Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Amazing Yet Useless Facts About Science - Part 4


  • You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
  • Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! 
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open! 
  • It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open!
  • The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
  • Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
  • Slugs have 4 noses. 


  • Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
  • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! 


  • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
  • The average person laughs 10 times a day!

Amazing Yet Useless Facts About Science - Part 3


  • Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
  • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
  •  Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it. 


  • On average a hedgehog’s heartbeats 300 times a minute. 


  • More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
  • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
  • More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
  • 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!

Amazing Yet Useless Facts Related to History - Part 2


  • Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
  • The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
  • It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.