---60 FACTS MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW---

1. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

2. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

3. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

4. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

5. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

6. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

7. Camels have three eyelids. (Joanne, Eric, are you two camels? xD)

8. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

9. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

10. . Most lipstick contains fish scales.

11. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

12. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

14. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

15. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

16. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

17. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

18. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.

21. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.

22. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".

23. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

24. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

25. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

26. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

27. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

28. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South). Eg- AustraliA, EuropE

29. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

30. China has more English speakers than the United States.

31. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

32. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

33. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

34. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

35. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

36. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

37. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.

38. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

39. For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse's legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

40. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".

41. The penguin is the only bird that can't fly but can swim.

42. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (Adrian mention the last word on Zoey's post xD)

43. "101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.

44. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

45. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

46. Butterflies taste with their feet.

47. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

48. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

49. Starfish have no brains.

50. 11% of the world is left-handed.

51. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. (longest national anthem...? 0.0)

52. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

53. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it. (Emily don't eat too much chocolate huh!! xD)

54. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. (Who wanna try? ._.)

55. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

56. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. (Except KSK, who else is left handed people?)

57. Cats' urine glows under a black light.

58. 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

59. If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (I'm speechless... ==)

60. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

Cite resource- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081118184036AALJmM5

By- Janice :)