User blog:Plattenum/Amaze Your Mind With These Awesome Fun Facts!

As a lot of you know, I LOVE collecting fun facts, and so I will share the lot I know with you guys.

I will add more as time passes by...

People

1. Babies are most likely to be born on a Tuesday.
2. The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
3. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people live to be 116 or older.
4. The average person spends 7 years in the bathroom.
5. Babies are born without kneecaps; they don't appear until around ages 2-6.
6. The highest human body temperature ever recorded was 115.7 degrees, and the man survived.
7. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
8. Zzyzx (pronounced Zay-zix) was voted strangest name. 5 babies were named it in the past 15 years.
9. 90% of people wet the toothbrush before applying the paste.
10. Kids spend 2,340 days in school for kindergarten to high school.
11. If you met every person one at a time per second, it would take you 200 years.
12. People who generally walk at a faster pace will most likely live longer.
13. Phobias are sometimes memories formed by DNA.
14. There's a 52% chance your dreams will come true.
15. You replace every cell in your body every 7 years; you are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.
16. People who use profanity are more likely to be honest, loyal, and up front with their friends.
17. If you think of yourself as a "cat person", you’re among 11.5% of people in the world.
18. Babies have taste buds in their cheeks.
19. You blink more when you're talking than when you're reading.
20. Half of all humans ever lived died from malaria.
21. A blink usually lasts 100 to 150 milliseconds, which makes it possible to blink five times in a second.
22. 93% of students research online rather than in a library.
23. People generally read text 25 times slower on screen than on paper.
24. 67% of kids like school.
25. The colder the room you sleep in, the higher the odds that you will have a bad dream.
26. At least 2 people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
27. 100 years from now, Facebook will have 500,000,000 accounts of dead people.
28. There are 84 people in the USA named LOL.
29. There are 13 people named Donut.
30. 99% of people backspace their whole password when they only mess up one character.
31. The average customer spends 15 minutes in a supermarket before buying anything.
32. Good liars are better at detecting other people's lies.
33. When someone appears in your dreams, it's sometimes because that person misses you.
34. Smarter people tend to make sarcastic comments quicker than people who aren't as smart.
35. People with higher IQs tend to have more confidence and be more creative.
36. You can't snore and dream at the same time.
37. On average, twelve newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
38. 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
39. Bikinis and tampons were both invented by men.
40. The indent between your nose and lips is called a "Philtrum".
41. Believing you've slept well, even if you haven't, improves overall performance.
42. Some deaf people make sign language in their sleep.
43. Extremely creative people tend to sleep more.
44. People who hold their phone in their left hand are usually right-brain dominant, and vice versa.
45. Premature babies are more likely to be left handed.
46. Men are more likely to be left handed than women.
47. Most babies are conceived in December and born in August or September.
48. 35% of people watching TV yell at it.
49. The average age kids begin using a microwave is seven.
50. The average American has used 730 crayons by the age of ten.
51. Humans share about 50% of DNA with bananas.
52. 8% of people have an extra rib.
53. The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
54. The average person's field of vision is 180 degrees.
55. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
56. A fetus develops fingerprints at 18 weeks.
57. A person uses 72 different muscles while speaking.
58. Left handedness runs in families.
59. Lefties are 3 times more likely to become alcoholic.
60. Super stressed pregnant women are more likely to give birth to a left handed child.
61. Over 2,500 lefties are killed every year by using an instrument designed for righties.
62. Lefties have a higher risk of breast cancer than righties.
63. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
64. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
65. According to the census, the odds of being born male are 51.2%.
66. One is every 9,000 people is an albino.
67. The average IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ.
68. It takes 25 muscles to swallow.
69. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
70. The most common disease in the world is tooth-decay.
71. One in seven workers in Boston, Massachussetts, walks to work.
72. Those living in Houston, Texas, eat out an average of 4.6 times a week, more than anyone else in the country.
73. The chances of being born male are 51.2%.
74. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink in quicksand.

Words

1. The only 15 letter word with no repeated letters is "uncopyrightable".
2. The longest one syllable words are "screeched", "schlepped", "scratched", "scrounged", "scrunched", "stretched", "straights", and "strengths".
3. Maine is the only US state that is one syllable.
4. The most common US street name is "Second Street".
5. Shakespeare is quoted 33,150 times in the Oxford dictionary.
6. The word "Pennsylvania" is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
7. The top 3 health-related searches on the Internet are (in this order): Depression, allergies, and cancer.
8. The shortest complete sentence is "Go."
9. The only letter not used in the names of the US states is "Q".
10. "Facetiously" is the only word that uses all the vowels in the alphabet in order.
11. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
12. The dot over the letter "I" is called a tittle.
13. If you mouth the word colorful to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you."
14. The oldest word in the English language is "town".
15. Amazon.com was originally called "Cadabra".
16. The French language has 17 different words for "surrender".
17. Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
18. In Japanese, there are at least 20 ways to say "sorry".
19. The word potato comes from the Spanish word "patata".
20. In Spanish, Colgate translates to "Go hang yourself."
21. A word is added to the dictionary every two hours.
22. The most common words in English are "I" and "you".
23. 11% of the entire English language is the letter "E".
24. The US doesn't have an official language.
25. The most commonly used noun is "time".
26. The word "set" has the most definitions.
27. 90% of English text consists of just 1,000 words.
28. There are 24 different dialects of English in the US.
29. There are seven ways to spell the sound "ee" in English.
30. 1/4 of the world's population speaks at least some English.
31. The part of your back that you can’t quite reach to scratch is called the "acnestis".
32. In written English, only one in every 510 letters is a Q.
33. The longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order is "spoonfeed".
34. As a verb rather than a noun, owl means “to act wisely, despite knowing nothing.”
35. "Happy" is used three times more often in English than "sad".
36. A repdigit is a number comprised of a series of repeated numbers, like 9,999.
37. An autological word is one that describes itself — like "short" or "unhyphenated".
38. Everything can be described because the word "indescribable" exists.
39. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
40. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
41. There is a city called "Rome" on every continent.
42. In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is.
43. The infinity sign is called a "lemniscate".
44. The natural smell of rain is called "petrichor".
45. The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip".

Fears

1. Pentheraphobia is the fear of a mother-in-law.
2. Philophobia is the fear of being or falling in love.
3. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by a feather.
4. Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, a duck is watching you.
5. Atelophobia is the fear of not being good enough.
6. Ephebiphobia is the fear of teenagers.
7. Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
8. Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
9. Batophobia is the fear of being near tall objects.
10. Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors.
11. Sinistrophobia is the fear of lefties or objects on the left side.
12. The fear of spiders affects women four times more (48% women and 12% men).
13. 8% of Americans have Paraskevidekatriaphobia, the fear of Friday the 13th.
14. Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.
15. Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.

Miscellaneous

1. Pearls melt in vinegar.
2. If you toss a coin 10,000 times, heads will only come up 4,950 times, not 5,000. Heads is heavier than tails so it will most likely end up on the bottom.
3. The hippopotamus is born underwater.
4. A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
5. Respiratory disease is China's number one killer.
6. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
7. There are glow-in-the-dark jeans.
8. Minecraft has approximately 130 quadrillion blocks in it.
9. A Thou is one-thousandth of an inch.
10. An Angstrom is one-tenth of a nanometer, and is used to describe the size of an atom.
11. Most of Olaf's lines were improvised rather than scripted.
12. There is a disclaimer about Kristoff's line "All men eat their boogers" in the Frozen credits.
13. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
14. Lighters were invented before matches.
15. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
16. June 28th is National Caps Lock Day.
17. The 3 most common lies on the Internet: I have read and agree to the terms of service, Status: Offline, and Yes, I'm 18 years or older.
18. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are the new order of playing cards has never existed before.
19. 54,000,000 people alive right now will become dead within 12 months.
20. Horses can sleep standing.
21. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
22. The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
23. A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38 miles long.
24. The billionth digit of pi is 9.
25. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
26. More than 36 billion texts are sent everyday.
27. Pumice is the only kind of rock that floats on water.
28. Some clouds are more than 10 miles tall.
29. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
30. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.
31. Slugs have 4 noses.
32. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
33. Time slows down near a black hole and stops completely inside.
34. There are exactly 46,783,665,034,756,288,456,012,645 move possibilities in a game of chess.
35. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
36. Being in a good mood may make it easier to solve puzzles.
37. Regular piano practice might up your IQ.
38. The number 2,520 can be divided by all numbers 1-10 without having a decimal left over.
39. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
40. Straws can give you gas.
41. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40; females have 36.
42. All snow crystals are hexagonal.
43. Paper money was first used in China.
44. It's impossible to sneeze while sleeping.
45. Kangaroos are almost always left handed.
46. Facebook, Skype, and Twitter are all banned in China.
47. The first sport ever made was wrestling.
48. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
49. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
50. The average depth of an ocean is 2.7 miles.
51. Apple's emojis were created in 1998/1999.
52. Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as a textured wallpaper.
53. The record for the longest period of time without sleep is 11 days.
54. Bullfrogs don't sleep.
55. Memories take hold better during sleep.
56. Light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second.
57. Raindrops never exceed 29 KM per hour.
58. It's estimated that there are 100 octillion stars in the universe.
59. Only 6% of all coupons ever printed are redeemed.
60. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
61. A T.V. remote is the dirtiest item in a typical household.
62. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
63. Playing cards in India are round.
64. If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.
65. There's a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue lava.
66. Receiving a text message that says, "Can I ask you a question?" scares 99% of people.
67. Tears caused by sadness, happiness, and onions each look different under a microscope.
68. The total bacteria in a human's body weigh 4 pounds.
69. Bacteria are made of 80-90% water.
70. Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
71. It is estimated that bacteria produce nearly half of the oxygen found on Earth.
72. Certain viruses can infect bacteria.
73. Bacteria usually live in colonies.
74. The smell of rain is caused by bacteria called "actinomycetes".
75. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
76. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and can't find a mate.
77. In zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue.
78. On average, Google has acquired more than one company every week since 2010.
79. On August 16th, 2013, Google went down for five minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.

Food & Drink

1. A banana is actually a berry; a strawberry isn't.
2. Apples are more efficient at waking you up than caffeine.
3. Dark chocolate reduces stress.
4. Americans consume 18 acres of pizza daily.
5. One chocolate chip can give you enough energy to walk up to 150 feet.
6. Peanuts can be used to create dynamite.
7. Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
8. A raisin in a champagne will continuously bounce up and down.
9. Buttermilk contains no butter.
10. Watermelons are 92% water and 6% sugar.
11. Milk is heavier than cream.
12. Humans are born craving sugar.
13. 52% of Americans drink coffee.
14. Grapes explode if you put them in the microwave.
15. Chocolate is the #1 craving for most women.
16. Cultivated carrots are usually made up of about 88% water, 7% sugar, 1% protein, 1% fiber, 1% ash, and 0.2% fat.
17. French fries came from Belgium, not France.
18. The average apple contains 130 calories.
19. Apples help with nausea.
20. Eating blueberries sharpens memory and prevents you from getting memory loss.
21. Drinking beet juice can improve blood flow to the brain.
22. Water is actually naturally blue.
23. A battery can be made out of a potato.
24. There are red bananas that taste sweet and creamy.
25. Bananas, apples, and watermelons float in water.
26. Rubbing a banana peel on your forehead can help cure a headache.
27. 51% of bananas are eaten for breakfast at home.
28. Americans eat an average of 27 pounds of bananas per person every year.
29. More songs have been written about bananas than any other fruit.
30. About 75% of the weight of a banana is water.
31. Around half of all people with latex allergy have allergic reactions when eating particular foods, including avocado, banana, chestnut, kiwifruit, passion fruit, plum, strawberry, and tomato.
32. Banana peels are actually edible if cooked.
33. There are about 7,500 varieties of apples.
34. According to the FDA, the stickers on fruits are edible.
35. Pre-sliced bread was invented in 1928.
36. A pineapple is made up of berries that have fused together.
37. About 97% of the water on Earth is undrinkable.
38. Rabbits love licorice.
39. Almost all carrots used to be purple; it wasn’t until the 17th century that most of them became orange.
40. Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
41. An individual pineapple can take over two years to grow, although they are usually picked slightly earlier than this.
42. The top of a pineapple, after being cleaned and dried, can be planted in soil and a new plant will grow.
43. More mangoes are eaten around the world everyday than any other fruit.
44. It's possible for humans to live healthy lives while eating very low levels of carbohydrates, because our bodies can convert proteins into carbohydrates.
45. A watermelon is both a fruit and a vegetable.
46. There are more than 1,200 varieties of watermelon.
47. Around 85% of all oranges produced are used for juice.
48. There are now over 600 varieties of oranges worldwide.
49. There are typically ten segments inside an orange.
50. There are more than 7,500 varieties of tomatoes.
51. Tomatoes come in red, green, yellow, orange, pink, black, brown, white, and purple.
52. Potatoes are sometimes called spuds.
53. Pure water has no smell or taste.
54. Cheddar cheese is only orange because it's dyed.
55. Smarties are flavored as such: White is orange/cream, yellow is pineapple, pink is cherry, purple is grape, orange is orange, and green is strawberry.
56. You can buy eel-flavored ice cream in Japan.
57. Maine produces more blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
58. Fresh apples float because they contain 25% air.
59. Strawberries are the only fruit of which seeds grow on the outside.
60. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
61. If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll lose more energy than you'll gain from actually eating it.
62. There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
63. Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea does.
64. No one knows who invented donuts or when.
65. Of the 450 types of cheese, 240 come from France.
66. Eating lemons makes you live longer.
67. Carrots have zero fat.
68. The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 dollars.
69. Ranch dressing is dyed with titanium oxide, the same chemical used to dye sunscreen and paint.
70. Crackers are worse for your teeth than sugar.
71. A chemical in chili peppers called capsaicin tricks your mouth into feeling like it’s being burned.
72. India has the lowest meat consumption in the world with only 7 pounds per person per year. Australia has the most with 200 pounds per person per year.
73. A person could survive only drinking breast milk.
74. Throwing food away is illegal in Seattle.
75. High frequencies enhance the sweetness of food.

Colors

1. Coca Cola was originally green and would still be green if chemicals weren't added to it.
2. Crayola produces an average of 12 million crayons a day and 3 billion crayons a year, enough to circle the world 6 times.
3. Women are better at distinguishing shades of red than men are.
4. White is the most common car color.
5. Blue is the most common favorite color.
6. The color yellow can make you hungry and more focused.
7. The color green can make you more creative.
8. Blue is the most used crayon color.
9. The most common color for highlighters is yellow because it doesn’t leave a shadow on the page when photocopied.
10. The color of Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of FaceBook, is red-green colorblind.

Planets

Mercury

1. Mercury has no atmosphere.
2. There is no water or air on its surface.
3. Mercury has no moons.

Venus

1. Venus spins in the opposite direction to the other plants in the solar system.
2. Its atmosphere is 86% carbon dioxide.
3. 30 miles above the surface is a 12 miles thick layer of clouds.
4. Venus has winds up to 220 mph.
5. It snows metal on Venus.
6. The sky on Venus is red-orange.

Earth

1. The crust averages 22 miles thick and the mantle averages 1,860 miles thick.
2. Its atmosphere is 78% nitrogen and 20% oxygen.
3. Space begins about 62 miles above the surface.
4. Earth is made of about 1/6 iron.
5. Earth's surface is 10% ice.

Animals

Birds

1. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
2. A flock of crows is known as a murder.
3. Hummingbirds are the only kind of bird that can fly backward.
4. A robin has almost 3,000 feathers.
5. Penguins are not found in the North Pole.
6. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
7. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
8. The great-horned owl has no sense of smell.
9. The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10. The mother flamingo's milk is red.
11. An owl has three eyelids.

Bugs

Ants

1. Ants never sleep.
2. Sugar ants like to adopt aphids and care for them.
3. There are more than 12,000 species of ants.
4. Ants can lift 20 times their body weight.
5. Ants don't have ears or lungs.
6. Ants have two stomachs.
7. Some ant species are asexual and reproduce by cloning.

Aphids=

1. Aphids poop sugar.
2. Aphids lack wings.
3. Aphids are born pregnant, are capable of virgin births, and give birth to live young.
4. There are about 4,000 species of aphids.
5. Aphids are 1-10 mm long.

Bees

1. Bees can be trained to detect bombs.
2. Bees can fly up to 20 mph.
3. Bees have 5 eyes.
4. The average beehive can hold around 50,000 bees.
5. The honeybee is the only insect that produces food eaten by humans.

Butterflies

1. A group of butterflies is sometimes called a "flutter".
2. Butterflies are cannibals.
3. Butterfly eyes have 6,000 lenses and can see ultraviolet light.
4. Butterfly wings move in a figure 8 motion.
5. Some butterflies have been seen drinking blood from open wounds on animals.
6. Until butterfly ears were discovered in 1912, scientists thought butterflies were deaf.
7. Many adult butterflies never excrete waste.
8. Butterflies don't have lungs.
9. Butterfly wings are clear; the colors and patterns we see are made by the reflection of the tiny scales covering them.

Caterpillars

1. A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
2. Lonomia obliqua is the world’s deadliest caterpillar.
3. Caterpillars have 12 eyes.
4. Caterpillars have up to 4,000 muscles in their body.
5. Caterpillars don't have lungs.
6. There are about 180,000 species of caterpillars.

Centipedes

1. Centipedes can lose a leg to escape predators.
2. Centipedes are nocturnal.
3. There are about 8,000 species of centipedes.
4. Centipedes live 5-6 years.

Cockroaches

1. Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
2. Cockroaches can live without their head for a week.
3. Cockroaches can hold their breath for 40 minutes.
4. Baby cockroaches can run almost as fast as their parents.

Crickets

1. A cricket's antennae can be as long or longer than its body.
2. A cricket's ears are on its legs.
3. Every species of crickets has a unique chirp.
4. Crickets weigh less than a paper clip.
5. Cricket chirps can be used to figure out the temperature with this formula: x (x=the number of chirps in one minute) ÷ 4 + 40 = outside temperature.

Houseflies

1. A housefly hums in the key of F.
2. Houseflies have a liquid diet.
3. Houseflies can taste with their feet.
4. Houseflies defecate everywhere they land.
5. Houseflies can walk upside down.
6. Houseflies can see behind themselves.

=Fireflies

1. Firefly light can be orange, yellow, green, or blue.
2. Not all fireflies light up.
3. Firefly lights are the most efficient lights in the world, emitting no heat and 100% of its energy through light.
4. Some fireflies practice cannibalism.
5. Firefly eggs glow.

Millipedes

1. Most millipedes have fewer than 100 legs.
2. When threatened, a millipede curls its body into a spiral.
3. Millipedes were the first animal to live on land.
4. There are around 12,000 species of millipedes.

Moths

1. Some moths don't eat.
2. Moths outnumber butterflies 9:1.
3. There are 11 to 14 times more species of moths than butterflies.
4. A hummingbird moth's wings beat 70 times per second.
5. Some species of female moths lack wings.

Misc

1. A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
2. Cutting the ventral nerve cord of a mosquito cuts off the signal to stop feeding.
3. Ladybugs lay extra eggs for their babies to eat.
4. Mayflies have the shortest lifespan on Earth, only living up to 24 hours.
5. Insect blood is called "hemolymph".

Cats

1. Cats cannot taste sweet flavors.
2. A cat's brain can store a thousand times more information than an iPad 2.
3. The technical term for a cat's hairball is a "bezoar".
4. A group of cats is called a "clowder".
5. Approximately 40,000 people are bitten by cats in the US, annually.
6. A cat has about 12 whiskers on each side of its face.
7. A female cat is called a "queen" or a "molly".
8. Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
9. House cats can run at a speed of 30 miles per hour.
10. A "haw" is the third eyelid of a cat, which can only be seen when the cat isn’t well.
11. There are approximately 14 million more house cats than dogs in the US.
12. On average, cats sleep for about 16 hours per day.
13. Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

Deer

1. Deer can't eat hay.
2. There are over 60 species of deer.
3. A baby deer can walk within a half hour of birth.
4. Deer can jump ten feet high.
5. Deer practice both monogamy and polygamy.
6. In North America, deer are considered the biggest threat to humans among all mammals.
7. Deer are colorblind to neon orange.

Foxes

1. The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
2. A group of foxes is called a skulk or leash.
3. Foxes can make 40 different sounds.
4. Foxes can hear sounds from up to 40 yards away.
5. Foxes have vertical pupils.
6. Foxes are born deaf, blind, and toothless.

Giraffes

1. The legs of a giraffe are six feet.
2. A baby giraffe can stand up and walk within an hour of birth.
3. No two giraffes have the same spot pattern.
4. A giraffe's tongue can be up to 20 inches long.
5. Giraffes require over 75 pounds of food per day.
6. A giraffe's heart is two feet long and weighs up to 25 pounds.

Marine Animals

1. Jellyfish evaporate in the sun because they're 95% water.
2. Starfish don't have brains.
3. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn pale.
4. A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute. 5. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
5. Turritopsis nutricula is a jellyfish that lives forever.
6. Sharks have zero bones.
7. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it's born.
8. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
9. Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
10. Sharks are the only kind of fish that can blink with both eyes.
11. Alligators cannot move backward.
12. Starfish have eight eyes – one at the end of each leg.
13. In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.
14. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
15. Sharks are immune to cancer.
16. A group of jellyfish is called a "bloom", "swarm", or "smack".
17. Box jellyfish are almost transparent.
18. Alligators can live up to 100 years.
19. Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper.
20. A giant squid's eyes are the size of watermelons.
21. Goldfish can't close their eyes.
22. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
23. A dolphin can hear underwater sounds from 15 miles away.

Porcupines

1. Porcupines float on water.
2. The word "porcupine" means "thorn pig".
3. One porcupine can have as many as 30,000 quills.
4. Porcupine quills have antibiotic properties.
5. Baby porcupines are called "porcupettes".
6. Porcupines are the third largest rodents in the world.

Rhinos

1. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
2. White rhinos are the second largest land animal, behind elephants.
3. The name "rhinoceros" means "nose horn".
4. There are five species of rhinos.
5. Rhinos communicate with their poop and urine.

Snails

1. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
2. A snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.
3. Snail mucus helps wounds heal.
4. The world's smallest snail is only 0.03 inches tall and could fit through the eye of a needle.
5. There are over 60,000 species of snails.
6. Snails don't have jaws.
7. Snails reproduce asexually.
8. Snails are born without a shell.
9. A snail moves using one muscular foot.
10. It would take 33.33 hours for a snake to go a mile.
11. Around 1/3 of snails die after giving birth.
12. Some snails can trail another snail to move faster.

Squirrels

1. Squirrels will adopt another squirrel’s babies if they're abandoned.
2. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
3. A squirrel's front teeth never stop growing.
4. There are over 265 species of squirrels.
5. There are 44 species of the flying squirrel.

Tigers

1. Tigers have striped skin as well as fur.
2. A group of tigers is called an ambush or streak.
3. Tigers have antiseptic saliva.
4. Tiger urine smells like butter popcorn.
5. A tiger's tail is about three feet long.
6. White tigers typically have blue eyes.

Body

Blood

1. Our body contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels, 80% of which is made up by capillaries.
2. Capillaries are 1/8 microns (1/3000 inch) in diameter; ones smaller than this require blood cells to change shape to flow through.
3. The largest vein in the body is the cena cava.
4. The walls in the veins are much thinner the walls in the arteries due to lower pressure.
5. 70% of your blood supply is in your veins.
6. Every pound of fat uses an extra mile's worth of blood vessels.
7. The largest artery in the body is the aorta.
8. Blood has a pH between 7.35 and 7.45.
9. Blood is five times thicker than water.
10. Blood accounts for 8% of body weight.
11. The temperature of blood is slightly higher than body temperature.
12. Blood is 90% water.
13. Over 100 substances are dissolved in blood.
14. Red blood cells outnumber white blood cells 1000:1.
15. Blood appears green 30 feet underwater because there are no red wavelengths.
16. Lungs help make blood.

Bones

1. The smallest and lightest bone is the stapes, the third bone in your ear, measuring only 0.11 inches.
2. The biggest and heaviest bone is the femur, the thighbone, resisting up to 1,800-2,500 pounds.
3. By adulthood, you've lost 64 bones.
4. Each foot has 26 bones, and each hand has 27.
5. The "funny bone" is actually called the ulnar nerve.
6. The big toe has one fewer bone than the rest.

Brain

1. The brain is 73% water.
2. The brain weighs 3 pounds and takes up 2% of your body's weight.
3. The brain uses 20% of your body's energy.
4. A person has an average of 48.6 thoughts per minute and 70,000 thoughts per day, 95% of which are repetitive from the day before and 80% of which are negative.
5. The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
6. You see your nose at all times, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
7. Brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand can create new pathways for brain cells.
8. Frequent dancing can boost brainpower.
9. If you spread the human brain flat, it would cover a small kitchen table.
10. The human brain contains 400 miles of blood vessels.
11. People with a condition called hyperthymesia can remember nearly every single day of their adult lives.
12. There are anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each neuron.
13. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.
14. The brain makes a decision ten seconds before you realize it.
15. The brain consists of 60% fat and is the fattiest organ in your body.
16. The cerebrum makes up 85% of the brain's weight.
17. 25% of your body's cholesterol resides in your brain.
18. The human brain stores memory of numbers for 7 seconds and letters for 9 seconds.
19. Every minute, 750-1,000 milliliters of blood flows through the brain.
20. We dream to keep the visual cortex active at night and to prevent other senses from taking it over.
21. Yawning cools down the brain, while sleep deprivation heats it up.
22. Brain information can travel up to 268 mph.

Eyes

1. 1-2% of all people are born with green eyes.
2. People with blue eyes tend to have a higher alcohol tolerance.
3. When a person cries and the first teardrop is from the right eye, it's happiness. When it's from the left eye, it's pain.
4. The blink of an eye equals about 2/5 of a second.
5. Some people can hear their eyeballs moving.
6. You can get a sunburn on your eyes.
7. The eyes blink on an average of 15-20 times per minute, 28,000 times per day, 10,220,000 times a year, and 5.2 million times a year.
8. Colorblindness is more common in males. 8% of males are colorblind, while 0.5% of females are colorblind.
9. All babies are born colorblind.
10. Eyes never grow.
11. You can only see 2,500 stars at one time.
12. Sheep and goats have rectangular pupils.
13. Colorblind people have better right vision.
14. The human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other color.
15. The human eye can see yellow faster than any other color; 1.24x faster than red, for example.
16. Naturally occurring violet-colored eyes do exist.
17. The triangular, pink area in the corner of your eye is called a "caruncle".
18. Green eyes are more common in females.
19. Eyes that change color depending on your mood do exist.
20. The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.
21. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
22. The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat and it was a dark night, a candle’s flame could be seen from 30 miles away.

Hair

1. 1-2% of all people are born with red hair, and 2% are born with blonde hair.
2. Hair is virtually indestructible.
3. Black is the most common hair color.
4. Black dye is the hardest dye to remove.
5. Spiders can hear using tiny hairs on their legs.
6. Onions and garlic help your hair grow.
7. Redheads require up to 20% more anesthesia to be knocked out (compared to people of other hair colors).
8. Strawberry-blonde is the rarest shade of blonde.
9. Redheads are more susceptible to skin cancer.
10. Redheads have an easier time soaking up vitamin D.
11. On average, blondes earn seven percent more than people of other hair colors.
12. In 1950, only about 7% of women colored their hair, but in 2015, it’s up to about 75%.
13. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
14. The average human grows 590 miles of hair during their lifetime.

Heart

1. Everyday your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles.
2. The heart can keep beating even if it's separated from the body.
3. Multivitamins increase the chance of cancer and heart disease.
4. Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.
5. Chewing gum can make your heart beat faster.
6. Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
7. You heart beats an average of 3,000,000,000 times in your life.
8. The heart pumps an average of 7,200 liters of blood per day.

Skin

1. Skin has 3 layers: Epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous fat or hypodermis.
2. You lose 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells per minute, 200,000,000 per hour, and five million per day. This adds up to almost 9 pounds by the end of the year.
3. Mosquito repellents don't repel; they just hide you. The spray blocks a mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
4. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.
5. The muscle that causes goosebumps is called arrector pili.
6. Every 25-45 days, you have an entirely new layer of skin.
7. Melanin is the pigment that produces different skin colors and protects you from the sun.
8. Skin, hair, and nails are primarily composed of dead cells.
9. The blue color that appears when you lack oxygen is called cyanosis.
10. The chemical that keeps your skin soft and kills bacteria is called sebum.
11. The average adult has 21 square feet of skin, which weighs 9 pounds.
12. Skin is 64% water.

Tongue

1. Every person has a unique tongue print.
2. 81% of people can roll their tongue.
3. The average length of the human tongue is 3 inches.
4. On average, women have shorter tongues than men.
5. A crocodile can't poke its tongue out.
6. The little pink and white bumps on your tongue are called "papillae".
7. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.
8. Taste buds are not visible to the human eye.
9. The average adult has between 2,000 to 4,000 taste buds.

Elements

Hydrogen

1. Hydrogen is so light, it cannot be contained by Earth's gravity. The mass of two hydrogen atoms is less than half the mass of one helium atom.
2. Hydrogen is the only element that does not contain neutrons.
3. Hydrogen comprises 90% of the universe and is the most abundant element in it, followed by helium, oxygen, and carbon.
4. Given enough time, hydrogen turns into people.
5. Hydrogen is used in the synthesis of ammonia, sulfur elimination, fuel refinement, rocket fuel, and the manufacturing of organic chemical products.
6. Hydrogen can be converted into diesel gas, natural gas, and bio-fuels.
7. Hydrogen is highly flammable.
8. Hydrogen is the main component of stars but rarely occurs on Earth.
9. Hydrogen has the smallest number of naturally-occurring isotopes and the only isotopes with names: deuterium, protium, and tritium.
10. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the human body by number of atoms but third by mass.

Helium

1. Helium is the only element that remains a liquid at absolute zero under normal pressure due to its light and weakly-attracted atoms. Its atoms jiggle with zero-point motion.
2. Earth's atmosphere is 0.00005% helium, which is considered very rare.
3. Helium makes up 24% of the universe's mass.
4. Helium replaces nitrogen in specialized "breathing mixtures" of gases for very deep scuba diving.
5. Below minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, just a shiver above absolute zero, helium-4 becomes a so-called superfluid, with about 1/8th of the density of water and zero friction. This superfluid can quickly flow through any leak and travel up containers, making it difficult to contain.
6. Helium-4 was formed during the Big Bang and is the most abundant isotope of helium.
7. Helium is used in balloons, for pressuring liquid-fuel rockets, to create artificial air, to grow germanium crystals and silicon, to produce zirconium and titanium, and to detect leaks.
8. Helium diffuses through solids three times faster than air does.
9. All natural gas has at least trace amounts of helium.

Lithium

1. Lithium alone never appears in nature.
2. Lithium corrodes immediately in air due to moisture.
3. Lithium can be obtained from clay and brine.
4. Lithium is the least dense and lightest solid element. The next lightest, potassium, is almost twice as dense.
5. Lithium is used to treat bipolar disorder and other psychological disorders.
6. Lithium is used in aircraft, batteries, heat-resistance ceramics and glass, soap, and oxygen candles.

Beryllium

1. Beryllium was once called glucinium (Gl) for its sweet flavor.
2. Beryllium is six times stiffer than steel with two-thirds the density of aluminum.
3. The U.S. produced an estimated 90% of the world’s beryllium in 2015.
4. Beryllium is used to make mirrors, radiation windows, electronics, magnetic applications, nuclear applications, and more.

Boron

1. Boron is fairly rare in the solar system and makes up 0.001% of the Earth's crust.
2. Boron is not found naturally and is difficult to produce.
3. Boron is used to treat arthritis and in the manufacturing of sporting and consumer goods such as fishing rods and golf clubs.

Carbon

1. Carbon is the second most abundant in humans behind oxygen, comprising 18% of body mass.
2. Carbon forms 10 million different compounds.
3. Carbon forms both the softest and hardest materials in the world.
4. Carbon forms many materials, such as cotton, linen, cashmere, wool, and silk.

Nitrogen

1. Nitrogen takes up 3% of the human body and is the fourth most abundant element in it behind oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen.
2. Nitrogen is the seventh most abundant element in the universe.
3. Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air we breathe.

Oxygen

1. Oxygen is the most abundant element in Earth's crust.
2. The Sun's mass is made up of around 1% oxygen.
3. Oxygen is the most abundant element in the human body by mass.
4. Oxygen makes up around 20% of the Earth's atmosphere.
5. Oxygen has a pale blue color in liquid and solid forms.

Fluorine

1. Fluorine is the most reactive and electronegative element and is never found alone in nature.
2. Fluorine is the 13th most abundant element on Earth.
3. Fluorine combines with every element except helium and neon.

Neon

1. Although it is rare on our planet, only taking up 0.0018% of Earth's atmosphere, neon is the fifth most abundant element in the universe.
2. Neon has no true chemical compounds.
3. Neon is 2/3 as dense as air.
4. Neon glows red-orange.
5. Neon has the narrowest liquid range of all the elements.
6. There are ten liters of neon gas in the average home.

Sodium

1. Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, comprising 2.6% of it.
2. Sodium metal can be cut with a butter knife.
3. Sodium is the ninth most abundant element in the human body, comprising 0.15% of the body.
4. Sodium is used for yellow light in fireworks and street lights.
5. Salt used to be a currency; the term "salary" comes from sodium.

Aluminum

1. Aluminum is the third most abundant element and most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, comprising 8% of it.
2. Aluminum is in over 270 minerals but has no biological role.

Silicon

1. Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust, comprising 25.7% of it.
2. Silicon is the most abundant element in sand.
3. Silicon is the eighth most abundant element in the universe.
4. Silicon expands as it changes from a liquid to a solid.

Sulfur

1. Sulfur turns different colors in different conditions. Volcanoes with sulfur spew blue lava.
2. Sulfur compounds affect your sense of smell, smelling strongly at first but then disappearing.
3. Sulfur is also called brimstone.
4. Sulfur crystals change shape as the temperature changes.
5. Sulfur is used in gunpowder, penicillin, and fertilizers.

Potassium

1. Potassium is the seventh most abundant element in the Earth's crust, comprising 2.5% of its mass.
2. Potassium releases hydrogen gas when it burns in water and can ignite this hydrogen gas on fire.
3. Potassium is the eighth most abundant element in the human body, comprising between 0.20% and 0.35% of body mass.

Chlorine

1. Chlorine is the third most abundant element in the Earth's oceans, comprising 1.9% of them by mass, and the 21st most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
2. Chlorine is used for disinfecting drinking water and in the production of many products.
3. The chlorine in the Earth's oceans weighs 5x more than the atmosphere.

Argon

1. The symbol for argon was originally A.
2. Argon was the first noble gas discovered.
3. Argon glows violet.
4. Argon is the third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.

Calcium

1. Calcium is the fifth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and makes up 3% of the oceans and soil. The only metals more abundant in the crust are aluminum and iron.
2. Calcium is the fifth most abundant element and most abundant metal in the human body, and its presence in it weighs two pounds.
3. Calcium is used for making cement and cheese.
4. Calcium is abundant on the Moon.

Titanium

1. Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
2. Nearly every igneous rock contains titanium.
3. Titanium has such high corrosion resistance, it would only corrode to the thickness of a sheet of paper if in seawater for 4,000 years.
4. Titanium is the only element that burns in nitrogen.

Zinc

1. Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
2. Zinc is the fourth most used metal for industry, behind iron, aluminum, and copper.
3. Brass and bronze account for 17% of zinc usage.

Arsenic

1. Arsenic emits a garlic odor when heated.
2. Under ordinary pressure, arsenic vaporizes instead of melting.

Ruthenium

1. Ruthenium is the only group 8 element that does not have two electrons in its outer shell.
2. Adding 0.1% ruthenium to titanium improves its corrosion resistance by a factor of a hundred.

Palladium

1. At room temperature, palladium can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen, which makes it useful for purifying hydrogen.
2. Palladium can be beaten into leaf as thin as 1/250,000 of an inch.

Silver

1. The words for "silver" and "money" are the same in at least 14 languages.
2. A single grain of silver (about 65 mg) can be pressed into a sheet 150 times thinner than the average sheet of paper.
3. Silver is the best electric conductor of the elements, followed by copper and gold.
4. Silver is the second most ductile element. An ounce of silver can be drawn into a wire 8,000 feet long.
5. Silver is the most reflective element and reflects 95% of the light spectrum when polished.
6. Silver kills bacteria.

Tin

1. Tin has ten stable isotopes, more than any other element.
2. Tin is the 49th most abundant element in the Earth's crust.

Tellurium

1. Tellurium-128 has the longest half-life of any unstable isotope.
2. Tellurium is the lightest element to have alpha decay.
3. Tellurium is one of the least common elements on Earth; it's rarer than the rare earth elements and eight times less abundant than gold.

Xenon

1. The compound Xe2Sb2F1 contains the longest element-element bond known to science.
2. Xenon is the only element other than tin with more than seven stable naturally-occurring isotopes.
3. Xenon is considered the perfect anesthetic, although it is too expensive to be used large-scale.

Tungsten

1. Tungsten has the highest melting point of all the metals, which makes it hard to isolate in its pure form.
2. Tungsten is the fourth hardest element, behind carbon, boron, and chromium.

Gold

1. Gold never erodes.
2. Gold is malleable enough for just one gram to be hammered into a sheet one square meter in size.
3. Gold is also ductile enough for a single ounce of gold (about 28 grams) to be stretched into a gold thread 5 miles long.
4. A sheet of gold can be made thin enough to be transparent. Very thin sheets of gold may appear greenish-blue because gold strongly reflects red and yellow.
5. The majority of gold came from meteorites crashing into Earth.

Mercury

1. Mercury has a very high surface tension, allowing things from coins and anvils to float.
2. Mercury is a poor conductor of heat due to its high density.
3. Mercury has boiling and melting points closer together than any other metal.
4. Mercury is the only element to keep its alchemical name as its modern common name.
5. Mercury is used in fluorescent lamps, thermometers, medicine, the production of other chemicals, and liquid mirrors.

Lead

1. Lead is the only metal that exhibits zero Thomson effect. When an electrical current goes through lead, heat is neither absorbed nor released.

Bismuth

1. Bismuth repels magnetic fields, and placing a magnet between two pieces of bismuth will cause it to levitate.

Astatine

1. Astatine is the rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth. There is less than one gram of it in the Earth's crust and fewer than 25 grams of it on Earth at any given time.
2. The half-life of astatine isotopes is only up to 8.1 hours.
3. Although it should not be eaten, the nutrients in astatine help kill cancer cells in your thyroid glands.
4. If you were to make enough astatine to see with the naked eye, everything in the room would burn up.
5. Many physical properties of astatine such as color are still unknown.

Francium

1. Francium is the second rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth. There are probably no more than a few ounces of it on Earth at any given time.
2. Francium decays into radon, radium, or astatine.
3. Francium has not been isolated in its pure form.
4. Francium used to be known as actinium K and eka caesium.
5. Francium is the least electronegative element, meaning it is the least likely to attract other electrons due to their distance from the nucleus.
6. Small parts of francium can be found in the ores of thorium and uranium.
7. Since it occurs in nature so rarely, researchers have to produce francium from thorium or radium in order to study it.

Copernicium

1. Copernicium is over 200 times heavier than hydrogen.
2. Copernicium has no known biological role.
3. Copernicium turns into a gas at room temperature, so you can theoretically breathe in a metal.

Miscellaneous

1. The only letter not in the periodic table is the letter J.
2. Scientists originally thought only 92 elements on the periodic table occur naturally, but they have recently found that many short-lived, radioactive elements exist in stars.
3. There are 60 chemical elements in the human body.
4. Elements are formed from nuclear reactions in stars.

Sources: thoughtco.com, elementdatabase.com