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The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
--7760-- |
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
--7761-- |
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
--7762-- |
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
--7763-- |
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
--7764-- [that must be natural flight, I bet they would be airborne a lot longer if you shot one out of a cannon :D] |
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
--7765-- [I'm surprised they do not explode!] |
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
--7766-- |
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
--7767-- |
7768~Wow--neat stuff, Milk Toast!
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
--7769-- |
time for me to take a break and go eat some dinner... more useless trivia to follow at a later time...
--7770-- |
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year.
--7771-- |
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
--7772-- |
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
--7773-- |
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
--7774-- |
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every two innings.
--7775-- |
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
--7776-- |
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
--7777-- |
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
--7778-- |
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.
--7779-- |
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
--7780-- |
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
--7781-- |
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
--7782-- |
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
--7783-- |
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
--7784-- |
Slugs have 4 noses.
--7785-- |
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
--7786-- |
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
--7787-- |
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
--7788-- |
The US Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.
--7789-- |
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
--7790-- |
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
--7791-- |
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.
--7792-- |
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
--7793-- |
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
--7794-- |
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
--7795-- |
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.
--7796-- |
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
--7797-- |
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
--7798-- |
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day.
--7799-- |
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