♠ INTERESTNG FACTS 3 ♠

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♥ Spiders are arachnids and not insects.

♥ Each time you see a full moon you
always see the same side

♥ Tennessee is bordered by 8 states:
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri,
North Carolina and Virginia - more
than any other in the US

♥ ''Stewardesses'' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

♥ There is no such thing as a naturally blue food.

♥ Honey is the only natural food which never goes off.

♥ M&M's chocolate stands for the
initials for its inventors Mars and
Murrie.

♥ That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)

♥ The only continent with no active
volcanoes is Australia.

♥ The longest street in the world is
Yonge street in Toronto Canada
measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).

♥ About 90% of the worlds population kisses.

♥ Coca-Cola originally contained
cocaine.

♥ In every episode of Seinfeld there is a reference to Superman.

♥ The Internet was originally called
ARPANet (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) designed
by the US department of defense.

♥ Sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air.

♥ Toilets use 35% of indoor water use.

♥ The fortune cookie was invented in
San Francisco.

♥ Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.

♥ The average speed of a skydiver is
200kph (124mph).

♥ The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.

♥ All insects have 6 legs.

♥ That 90% of an iceberg sits under
water.

♥ The croissant was invented in Austria.

♥ In eastern Africa you can buy beer
brewed from bananas.

♥ African Grey Parrots have
vocabularies of over 200 words.

♥ A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.

♥ Australia was originally called New Holland.

♥ 'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia.

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

♥ The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs.

♥ All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30
minutes.

♥ Your foot has 26 bones in it.

♥ The average human brain contains around 78% water.

♥ Your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe.

♥ 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph).

♥ If you add up all the numbers from 1to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it
totals 5050.

♥ Sponges hold more cold water than hot.

♥ Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.

♥ Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.

♥ Cats have over 100 vocal chords.

♥ Camel's milk doesn't curdle.

♥ Elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period

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