facts

1. A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago. Awesome!
2. Stopping a supertanker which is fully loaded and travels at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.
3. A cat’s ear has a total of thirty two muscles.
4. The average person laughs 15 times per day. Hahaha!
5. The eye of an ostrich is larger than it’s brain.
6. A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants. Incredible!
7. Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight.
8. A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day. Huh!
9. Did you know,  you cannot fold a 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Try it! The MythBusters guys on the Discovery channel folded a piece of paper more than 7 times but it was a really large sheet of paper.
10. More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.
11. Most snowflakes form with 6 tips or branches. Generally, the colder it is when the snowflake is formed the sharper and more defined the tips will be.
12. Lung cancer was how the cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died. Hmmm
13. Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
14. You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.
15. If an infant becomes blind soon after they’re born they will still almost always see images in their dreams, but infants born with blindness will most likely never have dreams with images. People who were born blind do still have very emotionally intense dreams which include hearing, smells, feeling and taste. Now that’s an interesting fact about dreams.
16. It is against the law in the state of Kentucky to marry a man more than 3 times.
17. In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket.
18. On December 16th 1811 the mighty Mississippi river began to flow backwards due to a powerful earthquake.
19. Fires in the forest have been documented to move much faster up hill than down hill.
20. Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.
21. Human brains are estimated to be 70 – 75% h2o.
22. Approximately 1 out of every 50,000 people who visit this website send us an email about interesting facts. We enjoy reading them and sometimes use them, thank you.
23. Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day. The question is, where do they go?
24. No other animal has a longer pregnancy term than that of the elephant which is documented at an average of 22 months.
25. During world war 2 the Oscar award given out by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was made of wood because most common metals were very scarce.
26. Breast fed babies score slightly higher on mental development tests than ones on formula.
27. People who apply sunscreen to themselves generally apply 50-75% less than the recommended amount according to the Archives of Dermatology.
28. The color of a hens earlobes will usually determine the color of the egg shell. Farmers know hens with red or darker colored earlobes are most likely to lay brown eggs and hens with lighter colored or white earlobes will usually lay white eggs.
29. There are 722 miles of subway track in New York city.
30. Hartsdale New York has a pet cemetery with more than 12,000 pets buried.
31. Abraham Lincoln died at age 56.
32. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th in the year 1809.
33. Only one state in the United States contains only one syllable, the state of Maine.
34. Everyone knows the dog in the movie “Wizard of Oz” as Toto, the dogs actual name given to it by it’s master was Terry.