Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Crocodiles have no lips

I'm a sucker for facts and I want to learn weird shit every day thus I read books like this constantly. I don't collect sports trivia, but unusual things get me hooked. Like;
-Wombats have cubic faeces.
-Octopuses have three hearts.
-Kangaroos have three vaginas.
-The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
-More than 7,000 Americans die each year and 1,500,000 are injured as a result of doctors' bad handwriting.
-The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second, but is only aware of 40.
-Women buy 80% of everything that is for sale.
-At least 99% of all the species that ever existed have left no trace in the fossil record.
-Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the dry cleaner's with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.
-There are ten times as many stars in the known universe as there are grains of sand in the world.
-There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than an average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.
-All polar bears are Irish.
-Every human being starts out life as an asshole.
-Loch Ness is deep enough and long enough to contain the entire population of the world ten times over.
-Mushroom are more closely related to human than to plants.
-All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.
-The inventor of 'Best before' dates, originally for milk, was Al Capone.
-More than twice as many people are killed by vending machines as by sharks.
-Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 99% of their history.
-Highways in the western USA are based on the migratory routes of bison.
-Seahorses are the only fish with a neck and the only family of animals where the male give birth.
-Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater with their eyes shut.
-'Mother-in-law' is an anagram of 'Hitler woman'.
-250,000 birds were killed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. About the same number die from crashing into window glass in the US every day.
-There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
-Squirrels can remember the hiding places of up to 10,000 nuts.
-Humans kill at least 100 million sharks a year or about 11,000 an hour.
-Two-thirds of the world's population has never seen snow.
-Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.
-The speed of the wind has fallen by 60% in the last 30 years.
-99% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct.

No comments:

Choose to be content

David and Sarah, who have only recently met, go where their car's GPS tells them to go. They drive to different places in the past and ...