32 Fascinating Facts

The world is a pretty strange place; things often don’t happen according to plan.

The following 32 facts have been picked to entertain and amuse; read on to find out more about this fascinating world and the people that inhabit it.

1.     You cannot snore and dream at the same time.

2.     The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

3.     A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.

4.     Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.

5.     New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.

6.     A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.

7.     A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.

8.     Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.

9.     It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.

10.10% of the World’s population is left handed.

11.A broken clock is right two times every day.

12.According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.

13.Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”

14.A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.

15.A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in.

16.Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.

17. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

18.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

19. Honey never spoils.

20.Avocados are poisonous to birds.

21.Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.

22.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

23. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.

24.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

25.Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

26.If 33 million people held hands, they could make it all the way around the equator.

27.Earth is the only planet that is not named after a god.

28.The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.

29.You are born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you only have 206.

30. Every year more than 2500 left-handed people are killed from using right-handed products.

31.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

32.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.