The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of TV a day.- A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
- An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
- On average, 2 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
- In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
- The human body is comprised of 80% water.
- It is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.
- Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
- The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- Starfish have no brains.
- Children grow faster in the springtime.
- During its lifetime, an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
- More people speak English in China than the United States.
- Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
- 1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian.
- Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow.
- Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months.
- California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
- In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a 100-yard course.
- In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
- A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
- A group of crows is called a murder.
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