Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

•	The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
•	Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
•	A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
•	A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
•	There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
•	One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
•	The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
•	Slugs have four noses
•	Sharks can live up to 100 years
•	Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
•	Kangaroos can't walk backwards
•	About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday
•	The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
•	The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
•	Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
•	Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
•	There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
•	It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
•	The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
•	Octopus have three hearts
•	If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange

•	The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
•	Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
•	Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
•	Most cats are left pawed.
•	A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
•	You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.
•	Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
•	An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
•	Bone is five times stronger than steel.