Interesting Facts

ashay (CA Final Student) (782 Points)

08 March 2011  

 

  1. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  2. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
  3. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
  4. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
  5. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  6. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
  7. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
  8. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
  9. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
  10. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
  11. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  12. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
  13. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
  14. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
  15. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  16. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
  17. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
  18. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  19. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
  20. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes