Believe It Or Not!

Vijeth Kumar C (CA Final) (1615 Points)

11 November 2010  

Believe It Or Not!

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

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 

A snail can sleep for three years. 

All Polar bears are left-handed. 

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 

Butterflies taste with their feet. 

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

Cat's urine glows under a black light. 

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language 
 
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. 

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 

No word in the English language rhymes with month. 

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 

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

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." 

Starfish haven't got brains. 

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. 

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 

The most common name in the islamic world is Mohammed. 

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. 

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. 

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. 

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