hearken the facts

hearken the facts - ix

A few facts that you might never come across, but your life will be incomplete without:

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Texas is larger than France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Luxembourg combined.
The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of its body.
99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.
One in every 9000 people is an albino.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
The average Italian consumes half a pound of bread a day.
Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government.
The Blue Whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite.
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
The name jeep comes from GP, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.
In the early 1960’s, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
A tree in metropolitan area will survive about eight years.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team on his sophomore year.
One in ten people live on an island.

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