Alligators cannot move backwards.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Octopuses have 3 hearts.
Dogs can’t see colours. They are colour-blind.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
Cows have four stomachs.
Cows can sleep standing up.
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FUN FACT OF THE DAY If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles (around 96500 kilometres). That’s enough to go around the world twice.
In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the oesophagus.
A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.
The human body is 75% water.
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it’s hollow.
The width of your arms pan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
Your brain is 80% water.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.
The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear.
Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak.
A slug has four noses.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
When you wake up in the morning you are taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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FUN FACT OF THE DAY (RANDOM FACTS)
Night butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid bats.
The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles (around 70000 kilometres) to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest and they are nearly four times faster than toenails.
The average housefly lives for one month.
There is only one insect that can turn its head — the praying mantis.
Human eyes never grow but nose and ears never stop growing.
Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.
A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second.
Only male crickets can chirp.
The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
About 80% of the Earth’s animals are insects.
Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles (around 80 kilometres) per hour.
A snail can sleep for 3 years straight.
A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without its head.
A butterfly has its taste receptors in its feet.
The female black widow’s poison is 15 times deadlier than a rattle-snake’s.
United States of America has the most elephants in captivity.
Spun sugar is more commonly known as fairy floss.
The composer Mozart was 8 when he wrote his first symphony.
The hole where you sit in the kayak is called the cockpit.
Herbivores are plant-eating animals.
The average Australian makes 6 trips to the bathroom each day.
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FUN FACT OF THE DAY (RANDOM FACTS)
A koala lives on eucalyptus leaves.
Melbourne Cup day in Australia is held on the first Tuesday of November.
The stairs that passengers use to board a ship is called a gangway.
Men put wax in their moustaches to style them in the early 20th century.
There are an estimated 6000 actively spoken languages in the world today.
There is no word that rhymes with orange.
The most common letters in English are R S T L N E.
There is no word that rhymes with purple.
You speak about 4,800 words a day.
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of long words.
A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same way from both ends. For example: race-car.
Scientists believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus.
Jupiter’s giant red spot is like a tornado and it is 3 times bigger than the earth.
The largest crater on the moon measures 183 miles across.
Jupiter is a planet made entirely of gases.
The first animal sent up to outer space was a dog.
If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.
Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother.
A dentist invented the electric chair.
The largest baby to be born so far weighed in at 15 pounds, 5 ounces (around 7 kilos).
Sir Edmund was the first to climb Mt. Everest and return back.
The tallest man in this world was Robert Wadlow, a Chinese man who was 8’11.1″ tall (272 centimetres).
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb, was actually afraid of the dark.
Almost two-thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water.
Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than as a liquid.
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FUN FACT OF THE DAY (RANDOM FACTS)
The Sahara, one of the world’s largest and driest deserts with sand up to thirty feet deep was once a land with flowing rivers, humid swamps and lush fields.
Iceland is an island that is built of lava from volcanoes. It has major eruptions every 6 or 7 years.
There are actually giant waterfalls under the ocean. The largest is between Greenland and Iceland. This submarine waterfall drops 11,500 feet (around 3500 metres) which is three times the height of any land waterfall.
The place with the most number of rainy days per year is Mount Wai’ale’ale on Kauai, Hawaii – sometimes it rains up to 350 days.
The longest time that a place hasn’t had any rain is 14 years in Arica, Chile.
The more salt you put on ice, the more the ice melts.
The hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C) was once recorded.
Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, where a temperature of 126.9 degrees F below zero (53 degrees C) was once recorded.
Raindrops aren’t really shaped like drops; they are perfectly round.
Antarctica gets less rainfall than any other continent on earth.
A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun.
Roy Sullivan, a U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes.
Lightning strikes 1,000 times per second on the planet earth.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, unless they’re in Ireland.
Cows sometimes sit down in a field when they know it’s going to rain (so they can save a dry spot to sit on).
One inch of rain is equal to 10 inches (25 centimetres) of snow.
Every year, plants make and store ten times the amount of energy that people use.
Men can read smaller print than women while women can hear better.
Glass is made of sand.
Did you know that the Empire State Building once got stuck by lightning 9 times in 20 minutes?
One tree can provide enough oxygen for 2 people to live off of for their whole lives.
The lowest place in North America is Death Valley at 282 feet (85 metres) below sea level.
The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speed of 168-217 miles (270 to 348 kilometres) per hour.
The deadliest disease was the pneumonic form of the Black Death of 1347-1351. It had death rate of 100% (that means everyone who caught it died).
The largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. It is 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimetres) in length and 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimetres) in diameter.
The smallest egg is that of the hummingbird. It is less than 0.39 inches (1 centimetre) in diameter.
The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived (it can reach 100 feet (30 metres) long and weight up to 150 tonnes.
FUN FACT OF THE DAY (RANDOM FACTS)
The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, standing 29,028 feet (almost 9 kilometres) high.
The smallest dog ever recorded was a Yorkie who was only 4 inches (10 centimetres) tall. The biggest dog weighed 344 pounds (154 kilos) – more than two full grown men.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The telephone was invented in 1820 but it took 55 years before it was used in society.
Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano.
The earth is over 330,000 times smaller than the sun.
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old
Wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of your left hand because people used to believe that the vein in this finger goes directly to your heart.
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