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You are more likely to be struck by lightning than win the powerball jackpot. The odds for a lightning strike are 576,000 to 1 and winning the powerball jackpot are 140,000,000 to 1.
A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. The average bladder holds about 400-800 cc of fluid but most people will feel the urge to go long before that at 250 to 300 cc.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
The human heart pumps enough blood in a lifetime to fill three supertankers.
The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day.
The centre of the galaxy tastes like raspberries.
Competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi set a world record by eating 57 pan-seared cow brains (17.7 pounds) in 15 minutes.
It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia. It turns over $178 billion a year and accounts for 7% of GDP.
A butterfly can taste with its feet.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
The Largest known diamond in the universe is 4000 km (2500 miles) across. It is a white dwarf star called BPM 37093 that is around 50 light years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. It has been recorded that the center of white dwarfs crystallize into diamonds.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
A leech has 32 brains.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.
In 1819, the USA purchased florida from spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt.
Boxing legend Rocky Marciano invented the fax machine.
The original recipe for Coca-Cola contained a small amount of cocaine (about 22.5 milligrams of cocaine per gallon). Cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola in 1903.
A man in Mississippi was briefly imprisoned for “sorcery” in 1884 after throwing a curveball at a county fair.
In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
The longest word in English has 45 letters: 'pneumonoultra-
microscopicsilico-
volcanoconiosis'. It is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.
Leonardo da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for 15 years. By the time he died in 1519, he still didn’t consider it finished.
At least 30 million neurons in the entire visual cortex are activated by the single image of a house or face.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
When asked why he didn't win gold in cross country at the 2010 olympics, norwegian skier Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset said "I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days".
Golf was played on the moon. Back in February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 member Alan Shepard hit a ball with a six-iron, swinging one-handed as a result of his pressure suit.
One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
Bone is stronger than some steel.
Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.
The largest chocolate bar ever manufactured was in Italy in 2000 and the bar had a weight of 5000 pounds (or 2268 kilograms).
The universe is shaped like a vuvuzela.
Do you know what is special about the following sentence? ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. This type of sentence is called a 'pangram' as it uses every letter in the English language.
On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on earth.
Human hair is virtually indestructible.
You use 200 muscles to take one step.
There are dolphins that live in the Amazon River that are the color pink.
The world’s population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.
The largest snowflake ever seen was 15 inches wide.
Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
Venomous snakes can be dangerous even after they are dead. People have been "bitten" by snakes that were dead or thought to be dead.
One third of Russians believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
The number of neurons in the neocortex of females is 19.3 billion; in males, the number of neurons in the neocortex is 22.8 billion.
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
The "absolute threshold" in humans for vision is a candle flame, 30 miles away, on a dark, clear night.
If your eyes are blue, you share common ancestry with every other blue–eyed individual in the world.
Babies are always born with blue eyes.
According to scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.
Buckingham palace has over six hundred rooms.
On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11. This occurred during the first cricket test match between South Africa and Australia at Cape Town.
A giraffe sleeps only two hours each day.
Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.
46% of American adults believe that the world
is less than 10,000 years old.
The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand-made by the same Italian cobbler.
8th January 1835 is the only day in history
that the USA had no national debt.
You could remove a large part of your internal organs and still survive. The human body may appear fragile but it’s possible to survive even with the removal of the stomach, the spleen, 75 percent of the liver, 80 percent of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area. You might not feel too great, but the missing organs wouldn’t kill you.
The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant, is 69. She was a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
In 2008, a man in Ohio was arrested for having sex with a picnic table.
In the ancient Greek Olympics, wrestling matches were in the nude and a match did not end until one of the competitors became aroused.
The strings on tennis rackets used to be made with sheep intestines.
Light travels 18 million times faster than rain.
Coughs clock in at about 60 mph.
The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
The designer of Saddam’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker.
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, one of the suspects was Picasso.
Kangaroos have three vaginas.
If you drove a golf ball on the moon, it would travel nearly 4917 yards or 2.5 miles and would take 69.8 seconds for the ball to land. This can be achieved by a typical amateur golfer with an average swing speed of 90 mph or more.
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.
The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
The "absolute threshold" in humans for touch is the wing of a bee falling from 1 centimeter onto your cheek.
As people age, their ears get larger. Ear circumference increases on average 0.51 millimeters per year.
It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
Sneezes regularly exceed 100 mph.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
An eagle's eyesight is eight times more powerful than a human. The human eye has some 200,000 vision cells and the eagles have 1.5 million.
The former Indian international cricketer Sachin Tendulkar first played for Pakistan before India. This incident happened during a practice match between the arch-rivals at the Brabourne Stadium in 1987, when he came on the field as a substitute fielder for Pakistan.
Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.
'Pronunciation' is the word which is most mispronounced in the English language!
The ozone layer smells faintly of geraniums.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven may have been poisoned by lead; his hair had lead levels 100 times greater than normal.
The "absolute threshold" in humans for smell is a drop of perfume in a three-room apartment.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Ommatophobia is fear of the eyes.
You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before anyone notices you are balding.
The giant squid has the largest eyeball of any living animal. The diameter of the giant squid's eyeball is 25 cm. The diameter of a human's eye is 2.4 cm and that of the blue whale is 15 cm.
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb., 1.1 oz (2.3 kg).
The Houston Rockets did not discover until the 14th game of the 1984–85 NBA season that their home arena rims were set at 9-feet, 7-inches.
The skin of an adult human covers about 18-20 square feet (~2 square meters) and weighs about 6 lb (2.7 kg).
The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth.