It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
Sharks can live up to 100 years.
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Bone is five times stronger than steel.
The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old
Sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)
When hydrogen burns in the air water is formed
According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces
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