Amazing Facts

Amazing Facts

1. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
2. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
3. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
4. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
5. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
6. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
7. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
8. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
9. The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
10. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
11. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
12. On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
13. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
14. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
15. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.