| - Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm
- Bone is five times stronger than steel
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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf. |
You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day |
50 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa. |
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours |
Sharks can live up to 100 years |
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour. |
15 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled |
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday |
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class |
Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane |
Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. |
Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand. |
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood |
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation |
A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks. |
- The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second
- 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
- If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent". |
- Human use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
- The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year
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