Fact No.275

Only 9% of giraffe sex is heterosexual.

Fact No.274

Every 90 minutes people in Sweden give £500,000 to charity.

Fact No.273

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

Fact No.272

Your statistical chance of being murdered is 1 in 20,000.

Fact No.271

Every 5 seconds, a house catches on fire in the USA.

Fact No.270

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

Fact No.269

The billionth digit of pi is 9.

Fact No.268

85 million tonnes of paper are used each year in the USA.

Fact No.267

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

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.

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.

Fact No.264

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

Fact No.263

9 out of 10 of all living things, live in the sea.

Fact No.262

Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with rejoice.

Fact No.261

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

Fact No.260

The most used letter in English alphabet is E.

Fact No.259

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

Fact No.258

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

Fact No.257

Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt

Fact No.256

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

Fact No.255

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

Fact No.254

Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils plankton.

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.

Fact No.252

There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in garden areas.

Fact No.251

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

Fact No.250

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

Fact No.249

One in every five people in the world is Chinese.

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.

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.

Fact No.246

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

Fact No.245

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