Amazing Facts
· In one day your heart best 100,000 times
· A sneeze can reach speeds of up to 200 Miles per Hour.
· An octopus has three hearts.
· There are about 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.
· A skunk’s spray can be shot 6-10, but can be smelled 2.5 miles away.
· A giraffes tongue is 2 feet long.
· The only mammal with four knees is also the only mammal that can’t jump… The elephant.
· Coca-cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
· It takes seven to ten days to make a jelly belly jellybean.
When asked what he saw, the Spanish explorer who explored Canada said, “Ace nada,” which means nothing there. By saying “ace nada” Canada got its name.
· From 1939 to 1942, there was an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
· The largest number of children born to one woman is 69. She was a
Russian peasant.
· The Average age for someone to start smoking in the U.S. is 11-13 years old, in China it is 6 and Japan is 18.
· When pure nicotine comes in contact with ones skin, you will die in approximately 3 minutes unless mecamylamine (the antidote) is injected immediately.
· The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the Jailbird.
· The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days.