Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors – assuming no incest was involved.
Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Eskimoes have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
1 x 8 + 1 = 9;
12 x 8 + 2 = 98;
123 x 8 + 3 = 987;
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876;
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765;
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654;
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543;
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432;
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
The Australian aborigine language has over 30 words for “dust.”
If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would take 45 minutes to get to the bottom – 4,000 miles down.
Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
All babies are colour-blind when they are born.
May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
In Texas it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's son was engaged to Mandy Smith's mother. If his son had married Smith's mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.
Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
In Kentucky it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.
The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
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