Unbelievable Facts

UNBELIEVABLE FACTS.

1.     Do you know that we have only two LAGOS in the world? Nigeria & Portugal.

2.     In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

3. The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

4. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

5. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

6. In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?

7. Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.

8. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

9. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

10. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout their career.

11. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star dust.

12. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever. Turritopsis nutricula

13. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

15. The average person laughs 10 times a day!

16. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

17. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

18. The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667,   when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

19. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

20. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

21. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

22. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

23. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

24. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

25. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

26. It is impossible to blow air with water in your mouth

27. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

28. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

29. it’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

30. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

31. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

32. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

33. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

34. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

35. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

36. It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

37. Laughter is universal in humans. We all laugh in the same language.

38. We answer the phone with “Hello” because Thomas Edison petitioned for it. Alexander Graham Bell was in support of saying “Ahoy.”

39. The handshake is thought to have originated as a gesture of peace indicating that the shakers’ hands held no weapons.

40. The gender neutral term for a niece or nephew is “nibling.”

41. An average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds.

42. Babies can recognize mother’s smell and voice at birth.

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