Latest Amazing Facts

Human Body Facts
* The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.


* The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.


* The same amount of calories are burned by doing 6 sessions that are 5 minutes each of an activity and doing 1 session of that activity for 30 minutes.


*The pectin that is found in apples aids in lowering cholesterol levels.


 Birds Facts


* Gobbling starts before sunrise and can continue through most of the morning.
* Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.
* A spooked turkey can run at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between 50-55 mph in a matter of seconds.
So close, yet so far
* Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
* A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.
Earth Facts
* Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.
* About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
* A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
* Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).
* Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.
Language Facts
* Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).
* There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
* There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and"facetious."
* There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.
* There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.
First Happens Facts
* The greatest snow fall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
* The word "earthling" was first found in print in 1593.
* The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.
* The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.
* The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.
* Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.
* The first reference to a monetary prize in a horse race was offered by Richard I in 1195.
* The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
* The Industrial Revolution in Europe first saw the beginning of air pollution, which gradually became a major global problem.
* The first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram company in London, England in 1847.


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