Interesting facts

1. The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, promised his daughter
he’d write her initials on the moon. He did, and her initials, “TDC,” will
probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.
2. The Mimic Octopus can not only change colors, but will mimic the
shapes of other animals, like the flounder, lionfish, and sea snakes.
3. If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make
up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an
apple.
4. In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin and Russian embassies
by turning cats into listening devices. The program, called Acoustic
Kitty, involved surgically implanting batteries, microphones and
antennae inside cats.
5. Caterpillars completely liquefy as they transform into moths.
6. There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way
points for climbers.
7. When adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the
history of the world with a net worth 10 times more than Bill Gates.
8. A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while
sleeping.
9. Russia didn't consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously
classified as a soft drink.
10. If a male lion takes over a pride, he executes all of the cubs.
11. Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck was worth $44.1
billion.
12. Two-thirds of the people on Earth have never seen snow.
13. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, the sound effects for
the famous shower scene were actually created by repeatedly
stabbing a casaba melon.
14. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
15. There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the
Unites States.
16. When St. Louis held the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, events
included greased pole climbing, rock throwing and mud fighting.
17. The Woolly Mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids
were being built.
18. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
19. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel
in your head or neck and die.
20. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for
food.
21. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around
the world in a lifetime.

22. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of
water.
23. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for
the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
24. FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8
ounces of raisins.

25. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

26. You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning.
27. It would take over 1,000 years to watch every video on
YouTube.
28. After racking up $40 in late fees for a VHS, Reed Hastings was
inspired to start Netflix.
29. 1 in 10 European babies are conceived in an IKEA bed.
30. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child
inside.
31. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
32. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
33. Fifteen percent of the air you breathe in a metro station is
human skin.
34. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
35. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
36. A giraffe can clean its own ears with its 21-inch tongue.
37. A group of pugs is called a grumble.
38. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than
women.
39. In 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem
Globetrotter.'
40. The words written on Twitter every day would fill a book of 10
million pages.
41. Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.
42. Africa's populations will more than double to 2.3 billion people
by 2050.
43. Fortune cookies are actually an American invention -- Charles
Jung created them in 1918.
44. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he
doesn't wear pants.
45. French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
46. A flea can jump 350 times its body length, the equivalent of a
human jumping the length of a football field.
47. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore
were freshman roommates at Harvard.
48. Tennessee was originally known as Franklin; West Virginia was
nearly named Kanawha, and Utah almost became the state of
Deseret.
49. You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than a shark
attack.
50. The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is
actually greater than your chance of winning.
51. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.
52. The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, the
Ottoman Empire still existed.
53. Elvis Presley got a 'C' in his 8th grade music class.
54. The average person consumes a pound of insects per year,
mostly mixed in from other foods.
55. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
56. The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10
years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop.
57. The United States, Burma, and Liberia are the only countries in
the world that have not officially adopted the metric system as the
standard of measurement.
58. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
59. Cows have best friends and experience stress when they are
removed from them.
60. The doctor who claimed there was a link between autism and
vaccines created fraudulent data for his study and lost his medical
license.
61. Going to work is statistically three times more dangerous than
war.
62. During the year 1881, three men served as President of the
United States: Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester A.
Arthur.
63. Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10,000 different
states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs.
64. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the
murder of a child.
65. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by
automobiles.
66. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
67. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
68. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted
people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence
the expression "to get fired."
69. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
70. For years, the pharmaceutical company Bayer held the
trademark for the word “heroin” and sold the drug as a cough and
headache remedy.
71. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will cover up their
black nose with their paws.
72. In an average NFL football game, there are only about 12
minutes of actual play time.
73. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking at once, to
completely drain the average human of blood.
74. Approximately 2,500 left handed people die a year as a result of
using equipment designed for right handed people.
75. If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it
would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
76. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
77. In a statue dedicated to a person, if the 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.
78. The biggest tapeworm found inside a human body was 35
meters long.
79. Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and
gestures, and have demonstrated the ability to do simple
mathematical calculations.
80. Blue Whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse.
81. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
82. Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that he got
callouses on his lips. He cut them off with a razor blade.
83. The longest jellyfish on record measured 160 feet.
84. Due to breathing, your ribs move about five million times a
year.
85. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
86. Since 1945, all British tanks come with tea making equipment.
87. The current US flag was designed by high schooler Robert Heft as part of a
school project. He initially got a B- on the project, but when his design was
chosen for the country, his teacher gave him an A.
 88. Robert Downey Jr. credits Burger King for getting him off drugs:
Apparently, he ate a burger that was so nasty, it made him rethink his life
choices and throw all of his drugs into the ocean.
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