Facts about human life

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  1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.

  2. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.

  3. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.

  4. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

  5. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.

  6. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

  7. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.

  8. ."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

  9. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

  10. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off.

  11. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try!

  12. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon.

  13. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska.

  14. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

  15. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

  16. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles.

  17. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.

  18. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.

  19. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.

  20. One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.

  21. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.

  22. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.

  23. The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television.

  24. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.

  25. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter.

  26. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!

  27. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London.

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

  29. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.

  30. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

  31. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.

  32. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.

  33. 11% of the World is left handed.

  34. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

  35. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.



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