Sunday 31 July 2011

Fact No.275

Only 9% of giraffe sex is heterosexual.

Saturday 30 July 2011

Friday 29 July 2011

Fact No.273

The average person will have 4-6 dreams every night; that's 1460-2190 dreams a year.

Thursday 28 July 2011

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Fact No.270

Right this second 70% of people driving on the US highways are speeding.

Sunday 24 July 2011

Saturday 23 July 2011

Fact No.267

It is impossible to jump and stay in the air for more than 1 second.

Friday 22 July 2011

Fact No.266

If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for 1 minute.

Thursday 21 July 2011

Fact No.265

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Fact No.264

It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a years supply of footballs.

Tuesday 19 July 2011

Monday 18 July 2011

Sunday 17 July 2011

Fact No.261

The mass of our entire atmosphere is estimated to be some 5.5 quadrillion tonnes.

Saturday 16 July 2011

Friday 15 July 2011

Fact No.259

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Thursday 14 July 2011

Fact No.258

In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately 2kg a year.

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Fact No.256

In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.

Monday 11 July 2011

Fact No.255

There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family.

Sunday 10 July 2011

Fact No.254

Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils plankton.

Saturday 9 July 2011

Fact No.253

The fungus Cordyceps is able to "mind-control" other insects like ants to climb plants and attach there to become its food.

Friday 8 July 2011

Thursday 7 July 2011

Fact No.251

The average surface temperature on the planet Neptune is -209 degrees centigrade.

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Fact No.250

The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Monday 4 July 2011

Fact No.248

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is so large and exposed to such high weathering that as soon as it has finished being painted the job is started over again, making it a continuous progress.

Sunday 3 July 2011

Fact No.247

In 30 minutes, the average body brings off enough heat (combined) to bring half a gallon (1.9 litres) of water to boil.

Saturday 2 July 2011

Fact No.246

15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

Friday 1 July 2011

Fact No.245

Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.