On average a baby's heart will beat about 60 million
times before it is born.
Each
king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually
than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his
best chance of sleeping was in the centre of a bed facing directly
north.
The 'Mona Lisa' was once brought by Francis I of
France in 1517 to hang in a bathroom.
Crocodiles and dogs are color blind.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended
for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
McDonald's
restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two
years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed
to the shift to more healthy menu options.
The space between the 2 front teeth is called a
diastima.
More people in the world have never
made or received
a phone call than those who have.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of
Abraham Lincoln's son.
Nearly one in eight workers in the US has at some
time been employed by McDonald's.
Eighty per cent of all body heat escapes through the
head.
After
cats eat, they always immediately bathe themselves. This is because
their instinct tells them to get the food scent off them so that
predators will not smell the food and come after them.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
A Snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile.
It is extremely unlikely to encounter a dead bird,
even though they die regularly.
France contains the greatest length of paved roads.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty
car in Russia.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the
time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
Even
before the Sun turns into a red giant its increased output will fry the
Earth, and by the time it turns into a red giant the Earth will be a
parched ball of bleached rock.
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