Monday, June 17, 2013

Random Facts

 
It's a true fact we can't know everything. This world contains an endless amount of knowledge. With that said, it never hurts to learn something new! Take a look at these unusual facts! (Beware: I may blow your mind...)
 
A snail can sleep for three years. 
 
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
 
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
 
Most lip stick contains fish scales.
 
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
 
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
 
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
 
Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
 
The rat has been called the world's most destructive mammal - other than man.
 
 Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world's food supply each year.

25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
 
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

American adults have been educated for the longest amount of time.

The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.  
 
America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.

Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.
 
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
 
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
 
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
 
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

 An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

 Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
 
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
 
 
 
 
Mind blown right?
 
Find more "unusual" facts at: http://able2know.org/topic/51633-1!





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