personal addition #2

Fun facts

I have always been a fan so I have decide to make a list of some of the more uncommon ones that people may not have already known. So here they go.

1.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

2.Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

3.A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!

4.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself

5.Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands

6.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

7.Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet. take a look.

8.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

9.The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

10.Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating

11.Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

12.The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

13.The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

14.If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

15.It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

16.Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

17.To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly

18.The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

19.Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

20.Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

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