1. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
2. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
3. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
4. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
5. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
6. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
7. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
8. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
9. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
10. Ants do not sleep.
11. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
12. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
13. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
14. The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
15. If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly from New York to Los Angeles.
16. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
17. For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
18. La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
19. In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
20. The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.
21. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
22. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
23. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
24. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
25. Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
26. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
27. Approx. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
28. The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.
29. A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation.
30. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
31. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
32. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
2. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
3. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
4. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
5. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
6. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
7. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
8. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
9. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
10. Ants do not sleep.
11. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
12. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
13. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
14. The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
15. If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly from New York to Los Angeles.
16. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
17. For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
18. La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
19. In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
20. The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.
21. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
22. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
23. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
24. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
25. Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
26. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
27. Approx. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
28. The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.
29. A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation.
30. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
31. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
32. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
