The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year.
The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer.
According to records there are 50 million monkeys. That is quite an over population!
Bats eat all types of food. There is no restriction where their diet is concerned.
The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.
Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
Bulls are color blind.
A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Amazing Facts About Animals
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!
All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth
Dogs are all direct descendants of wolves
After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old and their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month.
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water.
Dogs have no sense of “time”
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Starfish don’t have brains.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
All polar bears are left handed.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The Emu can run at speeds up to 45 km/hr!
The Irukandji jellyfish is only 2.5 centimetres in diameter, but can cause death to humans within days.
The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours.
Shark’s need to swim, or they will sink!
Fairy Penguins live for an average of seven years.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!
All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth
Dogs are all direct descendants of wolves
After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old and their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month.
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water.
Dogs have no sense of “time”
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Starfish don’t have brains.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
All polar bears are left handed.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The Emu can run at speeds up to 45 km/hr!
The Irukandji jellyfish is only 2.5 centimetres in diameter, but can cause death to humans within days.
The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours.
Shark’s need to swim, or they will sink!
Fairy Penguins live for an average of seven years.
Amazing Human Facts
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 – 2.25 inches (3.8 – 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.)
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
The pancreas produces Insulin.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 – 2.25 inches (3.8 – 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.)
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
The pancreas produces Insulin.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
Amazing Facts About Plants
•A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
•Banana oil is made from petroleum.
•84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water.
•The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or “corpse flower”. They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
•Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot.
•Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.
•The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.
•No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
•Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
•The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy.
•A plant’s stem appears and grows upward shortly after the primary root appears. It continues to grow above ground level.
•Water and minerals flow upward through the roots into the stem of the plant and then into the leaves of the plant.
•Pistils have three parts – the stigma, the style, and the ovary.
•Petals are usually colorful, and they attract insects and birds that help with pollination.
•Fruit is really the part of a flower in which seeds grow. Cherries, apples, and even milkweed pods are fruit.
•Buds are small swellings on a plant from which a shoot, leaf, or flower usually develops.
•The primary root is the first thing to sprout from a seed, and it grows downward.
•A seed contains its own food supply, which helps the sprouting plant as it begins its new life.
•Roots are covered with root hairs that absorb water and minerals.
•Grapes and clematis have stems that climb with tendrils, which hold onto a surface, as the stems get
longer.
•Banana oil is made from petroleum.
•84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water.
•The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or “corpse flower”. They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
•Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot.
•Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.
•The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.
•No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.
•Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
•The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy.
•A plant’s stem appears and grows upward shortly after the primary root appears. It continues to grow above ground level.
•Water and minerals flow upward through the roots into the stem of the plant and then into the leaves of the plant.
•Pistils have three parts – the stigma, the style, and the ovary.
•Petals are usually colorful, and they attract insects and birds that help with pollination.
•Fruit is really the part of a flower in which seeds grow. Cherries, apples, and even milkweed pods are fruit.
•Buds are small swellings on a plant from which a shoot, leaf, or flower usually develops.
•The primary root is the first thing to sprout from a seed, and it grows downward.
•A seed contains its own food supply, which helps the sprouting plant as it begins its new life.
•Roots are covered with root hairs that absorb water and minerals.
•Grapes and clematis have stems that climb with tendrils, which hold onto a surface, as the stems get
longer.
AMAZING HUMAN FACTS
Stomach lining cells produce mucus, pepsin, HCl to a pH of 2.0 (100,000X the acidity of your bloodstream)
More than half the bones in the human body are in the hands and feet.
The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km (102 miles) per hour.
The heart beats about 3 billion times in the average person's lifetime.
A newborn baby has 350 bones, but a fully-grown adult has only 206.
Blood is a liquid organ.
Everyone is colorblind at birth.
Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. The surface area of the lungs is approximately the same size as a tennis court.
Food will get to your stomach even if you're standing on your head.
Skin is the largest body organ.
The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells.
There are more bacteria in your body than the number of cells in your body. There are an estimated 75 to 100 trillion cells in the human body.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
Capillaries are so small that red blood cells can only travel through them in single file.
The cornea, the outermost layer of the eye, is the only living tissue in the human body without blood vessels? It receives nutrients from tears and from the aqueous humor.
Each cell in your body has an estimated 6 to 8 feet of DNA.
Research has shown that guilt damages your immune system by lowering your immunoglobulin levels.
The total length of your circulatory system stretches an amazing 60,000 miles. That is more than twice the distance around the Earth.
In one square inch of skin there are four yards of nerve fibers, 600 pain sensors, 1300 nerve cells, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors, 75 pressure sensors, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
Except for your brain cells, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body will have died and been replaced with others, all while you have been reading this sentence.
Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 40,000,000 times a year. In one hour the heart works hard enough to produce enough energy to raise almost one ton of weight one yard from the ground.
The liver is often called the body's chemical factory. Scientists have counted over 500 liver functions.
The central nervous system is connected to every part of the body by 43 pairs of nerves. Twelve pairs go to and from the brain, with 31 pairs going from the spinal cord. There are nearly 45 miles of nerves running through our bodies.
Messages travel along the nerves as electrical impulses. They travel at speeds up to 248 mile per hour.
The central nervous system is the master system of all functions within your body and has a reciprocal Neurophysiologic relationship with the Acupressure Meridian and Chakra (Emotional Energy Centers) Systems of energetic function within your being. Subluxations in your spine, cranium and extremities, interfere with the flow of nerve impulse energy information and acupressure meridian energy within your body.
The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. These 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 19,000 km (12,000 miles) - that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
We give birth to 100 billion red blood cells every day and about two million red blood cells every second.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
We have over 600 muscles.
We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70 percent water.
We make one liter of saliva a day.
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
During the first month of life, the number of connections or synapses, dramatically increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion. If an infant's body grew at a comparable rate, his weight would increase from 8.5 pounds at birth to 170 pounds at one month old.
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...
Our bodies contain enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
We have enough carbon to manufacture 900 pencils.
Fingernails are one of the human body's strongest components. They contain keratin, which is also found in rhino horns, which refuses to erode after death.
Babies are not fully naked in the womb. In fact, their entire bodies are usually covered in a thin layer of dark hair by the end of the fifth month of pregnancy, which disappear when the baby is born.
People blink once every four seconds. That's because the eyelashes act as windscreen wipers, keeping dust and grime from getting into the eye itself.
Humans are one of the only mammals who are unable to 'turn' their ears in order to hear approaching predators.
An embryo is genderless for the first 6-8 weeks of pregnancy. Only after that the body decides whether the baby will be a boy or girl through dominant hormones that emerge.
Every tongue has its own individual print, which is unique to each person.
The big toe is actually one of the most important elements within the body, as it balances the skeleton and enables the owner to move forward when walking without it, we would simply fall over.
If the population of China walked by you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If a person has two-thirds of their liver removed from trauma or surgery, it will grow back to its original size in four weeks time.
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day. You take about 600 million breaths during your lifetime.
A person can live without food for about 40 days, but only about 7 days without water, 6-8 minutes without air, and literally an instant without Life Force.
Among the top ten causes of death in the US are toxic reactions to correctly prescribed drugs, which make more than two million Americans seriously ill every year, and kill 106,000 more. Incorrectly prescribed drugs account for another 90,000 deaths each year!
The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.
We take about 600 million breaths during our lifetime.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of US and Canada combined.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
The average human body contains enough: Sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough water to fill a ten gallon tank.
If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one lifetime and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!
Fact: In one square inch of skin there are four yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
Fact: Except for your brain cells, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body will have died and been replaced with others, all while you have been reading this sentence.
Fact: The adult heart beats about 40,000,000 times a year. In one hour the heart works hard enough to produce enough energy to raise almost one ton of weight one yard from the ground.
Fact: The liver is often called the body's chemical factory. Scientists have counted over 500 liver functions.
Fact: The central nervous system is connected to every part of the body by 43 pairs of nerves. Twelve pairs go to and from the brain, with 31 pairs going from the spinal cord. There are nearly 45 miles of nerves running through our bodies.
Fact: Messages travel along the nerves as electrical impulses. They travel at speeds up to 248 mile per hour.
Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts!
In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.
The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.
50 Incredibly Weird Facts About the Human Body
As long as we make efforts to take care of ourselves and live healthy, there is a good chance that our bodies will serve us well for a long time. Our bodies truly are amazing. You might be surprised at what your body is capable of after reading these 50 weird facts about the human body:
The Brain
Complex and poorly understood, the brain is what makes everything work properly. The body may be kept alive, but without the brain, a person can’t truly live. Here are some interesting and weird facts about the brain.
The brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.
Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.
80% of the brain is water: Instead of being relatively solid, your brain 80% water. This means that it is important that you remain properly hydrated for the sake of your mind.
Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep.
Your brain operates on 10 watts of power: It’s true: The amazing computational power of your brain only requires about 10 watts of power to operate.
A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream. A high I.Q. can also fight mental illness. Some people even believe they are smarter in their dreams than when they are awake.
The brain changes shapes during puberty: Your teenage years do more than just change how you feel; the very structure of your brain changes during the teen years, and it even affects impulsive, risky behavior.
Your brain can store everything: Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.
Information in your brain travels at different speeds: The neurons in your brain are built differently, and information travels along them at different speeds. This is why sometimes you can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.
Your Senses
You might be surprised at the amazing things your various senses can accomplish.
Your smell is unique: Your body odor is unique to you — unless you have an identical twin. Even babies recognize the individual scents of their mothers.
Humans use echolocation: Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation. It is thought that those who are blind develop this ability to heightened effectiveness.
Adrenaline gives you super strength: Yes, with the proper response in certain situations, you really can lift a car.
Women smell better than men: Women are better than men at identifying smells.
Your nose remembers 50,000 scents: It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells.
Your hearing decreases when you overeat: When you eat too much food, it actually reduces your ability to hear. So consider eating healthy — and only until you are full.
Your sense of time is in your head: How you experience time is all about your perception. Some speculate that stress can help you experience time dilation. Apparently, time manipulation isn’t just for superheroes.
Reproduction
How we as a species reproduce offers all sorts of interesting weird facts. Here are some of the weirder things you might not know.
Your teeth are growing before birth: Even though it takes months after you are born to see teeth, they start growing about six months before you are born.
Babies are stronger than oxen: On a pound for pound basis, that is. For their size, babies are quite powerful and strong.
Babies always have blue eyes when they are born: Melanin and exposure to ultraviolet light are needed to bring out the true color of babies’ eyes. Until then they all have blue eyes.
Women might be intrinsically bi: There are sex studies that indicate that women might bisexual intrinsically, no matter how they class themselves, while men are usually either gay or straight.
Most men have regular erections while asleep: Every hour to hour and a half, sleeping men have erections — though they may not be aware of it.
Sex can be a pain reliever: Even though the “headache” excuse is often used to avoid sex, the truth is that intercourse can provide pain relief. Sex can also help you reduce stress.
Chocolate is better than sex: In some studies, women claim they would rather have chocolate than sex.
But does it really cause orgasm? Probably not on its own.
Body Functions
The things our bodies do are often strange and sometimes gross. Here are some weird facts about the way your body functions.
Earwax is necessary: If you want healthy ears, you need some earwax in there.
Your feet can produce a pint of sweat a day: There are 500,000 (250,000 for each) sweat glands in your feet, and that can mean a great deal of stinky sweat.
Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have could fill two swimming pools: Since saliva is a vital part of digestion, it is little surprise that your mouth makes so much of it.
A full bladder is about the size of a soft ball: When your bladder is full, holding up to 800 cc of fluid, it is large enough to be noticeable.
You probably pass gas 14 times a day: On average, you will expel flatulence several times as part of digestion.
A sneeze can exceed 100 mph: When a sneeze leaves your body, it does so at high speeds — so you should avoid suppressing it and causing damage to your body.
Coughs leave at 60 mph: A cough is much less dangerous, leaving the body at 60 mph. That’s still highway speed, though.
Musculoskeletal System
Find out what you didn’t know about your muscles and bones.
Bones can self-destruct: It is possible for your bones to destruct without enough calcium intake.
You are taller in the morning: Throughout the day, the cartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.
1/4 of your bones are in your feet: There are 26 bones in each foot, meaning that the 52 bones in account for 25 percent of your body’s 206 bones.
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile: Scientists can’t agree on the exact number, but more muscles are required to frown than to smile.
When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles: Walking uses a great deal of muscle power — especially if you take your 10,000 steps.
Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body: Compared to its size, the tongue is the strongest muscle. But I doubt you’ll be lifting weights with it.
Bone can be stronger than steel: Once again, this is a pound for pound comparison, since steel is denser and has a higher tensile strength.
Unnecessary Body Parts
We have a number of body parts that are, well, useless. Here are some facts about the body parts we don’t actually need.
Coccyx: This collection of fused vertebrae have no purpose these days, although scientists believe it’s what’s left of the mammal tail humans used to have. It may be useless, but when you break your coccyx, it’s still painful.
Pinkie toe: There is speculation that since we no longer have to run for our dinner, and we wear sneakers, the pinkie toe’s evolutionary purpose is disappearing — and maybe the pinkie itself will go the way of the dodo.
Wisdom teeth: This third set of molars is largely useless, doing little beyond crowding the mouth and sometimes causing pain.
Vomeronasal organ: There are tiny (and useless) chemoreceptors lining the inside of the nose.
Most body hair: While facial hair serves some purposes, the hair found on the rest of body is practically useless and can be removed with few ill effects.
Female vas deferens: A cluster of dead end tubules near the ovaries are the remains of what could have turned into sperm ducts.
Male Uterus: Yeah, men have one too — sort of. The remains of this undeveloped female reproductive organ hangs on one side of the male prostate gland
Appendix: Yep, your appendix is basically useless. While it does produce some white blood cells, most people are fine with an appendectomy.
Random Weird Body Facts
Here are a few final weird facts about the human body.
Your head creates inner noises: It’s rare, but exploding head syndrome exists.
Memory is affected by body position: Where you are and how you are placed in your environment triggers memory.
You can’t tickle yourself: Go ahead. Try to tickle yourself.
Being right-handed can prolong your life: If you’re right-handed, you could live up to nine years longer than a lefty.
Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so.
Interesting Human Body Facts
-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
- Approximately 75% of human faeces is made of water.
- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
-One human hair can support 3kg.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
-The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
- Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
-You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.
Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.
The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.
The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
The human body is 75% water.
1.In the average adult, the skin covers 12-20 square feet and accounts for 12% of body weight.b
2.There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles in the human body.c
3.An adult skeleton has 213 bones.a
4.Cartilage is one of the few tissues that grows throughout life. Between ages 30 and 70, a nose might grow half an inch, and the ears grow about a quarter of an inch.e
5.A newborn's skull contains gaps between its bony plates. In an adult, the jagged plates interlock tightly like a jigsaw puzzle.a
6.The average human head has about 100,000 hairs.c
7.As a person ages, the diameter of each hair on the head shrinks. Hair is thickest in the early 20s, but by age 70, it can be as fine as a baby's. Aging also causes hair to grow where it is not wanted, such as in the nose and ears, and to fall out where it is desired.e
8.Hundreds of billions of neurons carry electrical signals that control the body from the brain and the spinal cord.c
Alien hand syndrome occurs when a brain injury victim loses control over a hand, as if it is possessed by an alien being
9.After sustaining trauma to the brain—such as an injury, stroke, or infection—some people develop “alien hand syndrome,” a condition where the victim can feel sensation in the hand, but has no control over movement and does not sense the hand as a part of the body, as if it belonged to an alien being.d
10.The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the brain exists mainly to help cool the spirit. It is now known that the brain controls nearly every function of the body and mind.c
11.When the pituitary gland malfunctions, it can boost or reduce the amount of growth hormone in a growing child's body, resulting in gigantism or dwarfism.a
12.The senses are highly attuned to our world, but they have limits. For example, humans cannot see in the ultraviolet spectrum as bees do, nor can they differentiate between the hundreds of millions of odors that a bloodhound can.c
13.The appendix has no function in modern humans. It is believed to have been part of the digestive system in our primitive ancestors.b
14.Humans smell “in stereo.” Scent signals from each nostril travel to different regions in the brain. This may help a person determine the direction the odor is coming from.c
15.The skin contains approximately 640,000 sense receptors, scattered unevenly over the body's surface. These receptors are most abundant in the ridges of the fingertips, in the lips, at the tip of the tongue, in the palms, on the soles of the feet, and in the genitals.e
16.An estimated five million olfactory receptors are clustered in the membrane at the upper part of our nasal passages. These receptors help us distinguish among thousands of different odors.e
17.There are about 9,000 taste buds on the surface of the tongue, in the throat, and on the roof of the mouth.b Taste buds contain chemoreceptors that respond to chemicals from food and other substances that are dissolved by the saliva in the mouth.e
18.Humans produce about 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. Saliva is required for taste—until food is dissolved by saliva, we cannot taste it.b
19.Hearing is one of the less acute senses in humans, compared to the many other animals which can detect sound at much higher and lower frequency than humans can.c
The lens of the eye thickens as a person ages, causing many middle-aged people to need glasses
20.As humans grow older, the lens in the eye grows thicker. This is why people who once had perfect vision often need glasses in their 40s.c
21.An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.e
22.The body carries about 25 trillion red blood cells (erythrocytes), the most abundant cells in the body. Red blood cells make up about 45% of blood's volume.e
23.Every hour, about 180 million newly formed red blood cells enter the bloodstream. Red blood cells are basically shells. Before being released from the bone marrow, most of a red blood cell's internal structure is ejected, creating a disc-shaped balloon that is ideal for carrying oxygen and a small amount of the body's carbon dioxide.c
24.White blood cells, or leukocytes, make up about 1% of blood. This number can double within a day when a body responds to infection.c
25.The circulatory system of arteries, veins, and capillaries is about 60,000 miles long.e
26.The heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime.b
27.Unlike other muscles, the heart muscle contracts without stimulus from the nervous system. Signals for the heart to beat come from the sinoatrial node near the top of the right atrium.c
28.In a healthy adult, the small intestine can range between 18 and 23 feet long, about four times longer than the person is tall.b About 90% of the body's nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream in the small intestine.c
29.At about five feet in length, the large intestine is shorter than the small intestine. However, it is more spacious so it can store and process material that will be eliminated.c
30.There are approximately 400 feet of seminiferous tubules in the testes of a human male.c This is where sperm is stored until an ejaculation releases 200 million to 500 million sperm, each of which is capable of fertilizing an egg.e
31.During ovulation, the number of white blood cells in the cervical mucus drops dramatically. If it did not, the white blood cells would destroy all foreign bodies, including sperm.e
32.Unlike other cells, which contain an individual's full DNA, the egg and sperm each contain only half of the DNA required to create a new human. Both halves must be combined for humans to reproduce.g
A good diet helps a child's brain develop properly
33.Proper diet is critical for brain development in children. The brains of children who have died of malnutrition during the first year of life have fewer brain cells and an overall smaller size than the brains of healthy children.f
34.DNA, the basic building block of life, is a long molecule containing four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C).g
35.The human genome—half the DNA contents of a single nucleus—contains about 31 billion base pairs: 31,000,000,000 A's, G's, T's, and C's.g
36.Six billion steps of DNA are contained in a single cell. This DNA can be stretched six feet, but it is coiled up in the cell's nucleus, which measures only 1/2500 of an inch in diameter.e
37.The maximum length of a mammal's life is generally related to its size. Thus, a man's lifespan should be somewhere between that of a goat and a horse, between 10 and 30 years. However, humans have developed ways to protect themselves from predators and disease, increasing their average lifespan to 74.7 years in the United States.
- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
- One human hair can support 3 kg.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
- Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate,
They do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
- You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
•A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
•A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
•Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
•A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
•A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
•Every person has a unique tongue print.
•According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
•After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
•An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
•A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
•An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
•It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
•Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
•Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
•By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
•Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
•Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
•Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
•Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
•Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
What happens is babies are born with incomplete bones - many consist of several chunks of bone connected by cartilage. Later on, the cartilage is replaced by real bone, resulting in two or more bone pieces 'fusing' into one adult bone.
-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
- Approximately 75% of human faeces is made of water.
- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
-One human hair can support 3kg.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
-The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
- Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
-There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
-You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.
Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.
The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.
The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
The human body is 75% water.
1.In the average adult, the skin covers 12-20 square feet and accounts for 12% of body weight.b
2.There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles in the human body.c
3.An adult skeleton has 213 bones.a
4.Cartilage is one of the few tissues that grows throughout life. Between ages 30 and 70, a nose might grow half an inch, and the ears grow about a quarter of an inch.e
5.A newborn's skull contains gaps between its bony plates. In an adult, the jagged plates interlock tightly like a jigsaw puzzle.a
6.The average human head has about 100,000 hairs.c
7.As a person ages, the diameter of each hair on the head shrinks. Hair is thickest in the early 20s, but by age 70, it can be as fine as a baby's. Aging also causes hair to grow where it is not wanted, such as in the nose and ears, and to fall out where it is desired.e
8.Hundreds of billions of neurons carry electrical signals that control the body from the brain and the spinal cord.c
Alien hand syndrome occurs when a brain injury victim loses control over a hand, as if it is possessed by an alien being
9.After sustaining trauma to the brain—such as an injury, stroke, or infection—some people develop “alien hand syndrome,” a condition where the victim can feel sensation in the hand, but has no control over movement and does not sense the hand as a part of the body, as if it belonged to an alien being.d
10.The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the brain exists mainly to help cool the spirit. It is now known that the brain controls nearly every function of the body and mind.c
11.When the pituitary gland malfunctions, it can boost or reduce the amount of growth hormone in a growing child's body, resulting in gigantism or dwarfism.a
12.The senses are highly attuned to our world, but they have limits. For example, humans cannot see in the ultraviolet spectrum as bees do, nor can they differentiate between the hundreds of millions of odors that a bloodhound can.c
13.The appendix has no function in modern humans. It is believed to have been part of the digestive system in our primitive ancestors.b
14.Humans smell “in stereo.” Scent signals from each nostril travel to different regions in the brain. This may help a person determine the direction the odor is coming from.c
15.The skin contains approximately 640,000 sense receptors, scattered unevenly over the body's surface. These receptors are most abundant in the ridges of the fingertips, in the lips, at the tip of the tongue, in the palms, on the soles of the feet, and in the genitals.e
16.An estimated five million olfactory receptors are clustered in the membrane at the upper part of our nasal passages. These receptors help us distinguish among thousands of different odors.e
17.There are about 9,000 taste buds on the surface of the tongue, in the throat, and on the roof of the mouth.b Taste buds contain chemoreceptors that respond to chemicals from food and other substances that are dissolved by the saliva in the mouth.e
18.Humans produce about 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. Saliva is required for taste—until food is dissolved by saliva, we cannot taste it.b
19.Hearing is one of the less acute senses in humans, compared to the many other animals which can detect sound at much higher and lower frequency than humans can.c
The lens of the eye thickens as a person ages, causing many middle-aged people to need glasses
20.As humans grow older, the lens in the eye grows thicker. This is why people who once had perfect vision often need glasses in their 40s.c
21.An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.e
22.The body carries about 25 trillion red blood cells (erythrocytes), the most abundant cells in the body. Red blood cells make up about 45% of blood's volume.e
23.Every hour, about 180 million newly formed red blood cells enter the bloodstream. Red blood cells are basically shells. Before being released from the bone marrow, most of a red blood cell's internal structure is ejected, creating a disc-shaped balloon that is ideal for carrying oxygen and a small amount of the body's carbon dioxide.c
24.White blood cells, or leukocytes, make up about 1% of blood. This number can double within a day when a body responds to infection.c
25.The circulatory system of arteries, veins, and capillaries is about 60,000 miles long.e
26.The heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime.b
27.Unlike other muscles, the heart muscle contracts without stimulus from the nervous system. Signals for the heart to beat come from the sinoatrial node near the top of the right atrium.c
28.In a healthy adult, the small intestine can range between 18 and 23 feet long, about four times longer than the person is tall.b About 90% of the body's nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream in the small intestine.c
29.At about five feet in length, the large intestine is shorter than the small intestine. However, it is more spacious so it can store and process material that will be eliminated.c
30.There are approximately 400 feet of seminiferous tubules in the testes of a human male.c This is where sperm is stored until an ejaculation releases 200 million to 500 million sperm, each of which is capable of fertilizing an egg.e
31.During ovulation, the number of white blood cells in the cervical mucus drops dramatically. If it did not, the white blood cells would destroy all foreign bodies, including sperm.e
32.Unlike other cells, which contain an individual's full DNA, the egg and sperm each contain only half of the DNA required to create a new human. Both halves must be combined for humans to reproduce.g
A good diet helps a child's brain develop properly
33.Proper diet is critical for brain development in children. The brains of children who have died of malnutrition during the first year of life have fewer brain cells and an overall smaller size than the brains of healthy children.f
34.DNA, the basic building block of life, is a long molecule containing four chemical bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C).g
35.The human genome—half the DNA contents of a single nucleus—contains about 31 billion base pairs: 31,000,000,000 A's, G's, T's, and C's.g
36.Six billion steps of DNA are contained in a single cell. This DNA can be stretched six feet, but it is coiled up in the cell's nucleus, which measures only 1/2500 of an inch in diameter.e
37.The maximum length of a mammal's life is generally related to its size. Thus, a man's lifespan should be somewhere between that of a goat and a horse, between 10 and 30 years. However, humans have developed ways to protect themselves from predators and disease, increasing their average lifespan to 74.7 years in the United States.
- A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
- One human hair can support 3 kg.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
- Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate,
They do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
- You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
•A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
•A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
•Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
•A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
•A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
•Every person has a unique tongue print.
•According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
•After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
•An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
•A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
•An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
•It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
•Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
•Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
•By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
•Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
•Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
•Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
•Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
•Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
What happens is babies are born with incomplete bones - many consist of several chunks of bone connected by cartilage. Later on, the cartilage is replaced by real bone, resulting in two or more bone pieces 'fusing' into one adult bone.
Bones Facts
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.
There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.
The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
The human face is made up of 14 bones.
The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.
If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.
Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.
In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!
•Babies are born with more than 300 bones in their body. As we grow into adults, some of the bones grow together - an adult skeleton has 206 bones.
•Bones are alive! They are growing, living tissue. Bones are constantly renewed throughout our lives through a process called resorption. A process called formation then adds to the bones.
•When children are little, their skeletons re-new themselves every 2 years!
•Bones are actually hollow - the inside of a bone is filled with bone marrow, which is then protected by the hard, outer surface of the bone.
•Oxygen is carried around our bodies by red blood cells, which are made by the bone marrow.
•The smallest bone is in the ear. It is called the stirrup bone and is the size of half a grain of rice
•The biggest bone is in the leg. It is called the femur or thighbone.
•The strongest bone in the skeleton is the jawbone.
•Over half the bones in the skeleton are found in the hands and feet. The hand alone has 27 bones - in each one.
•A broken bone will take about 12 weeks to heal.
•Your skeleton increases about seven times in mass through your childhood, so this is the vital time for it to get plenty of bone building calcium.
There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.
The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
The human face is made up of 14 bones.
The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.
If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.
Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.
In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!
•Babies are born with more than 300 bones in their body. As we grow into adults, some of the bones grow together - an adult skeleton has 206 bones.
•Bones are alive! They are growing, living tissue. Bones are constantly renewed throughout our lives through a process called resorption. A process called formation then adds to the bones.
•When children are little, their skeletons re-new themselves every 2 years!
•Bones are actually hollow - the inside of a bone is filled with bone marrow, which is then protected by the hard, outer surface of the bone.
•Oxygen is carried around our bodies by red blood cells, which are made by the bone marrow.
•The smallest bone is in the ear. It is called the stirrup bone and is the size of half a grain of rice
•The biggest bone is in the leg. It is called the femur or thighbone.
•The strongest bone in the skeleton is the jawbone.
•Over half the bones in the skeleton are found in the hands and feet. The hand alone has 27 bones - in each one.
•A broken bone will take about 12 weeks to heal.
•Your skeleton increases about seven times in mass through your childhood, so this is the vital time for it to get plenty of bone building calcium.
Human Eyes Facts
We should never put anything in or near our eyes, unless we have a reason to use eye drops. We would only do that if our doctor or parent told us to use them.
Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protect them. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!
The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.
Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
A human eyeball weighs an ounce.
If the lens in our eye doesn't work quite right, we can get glasses to help us see. Glasses have lenses in them that work with our eye's own lens to help us see better.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.
The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina." On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." These rods and cones help us to see colors and light.
Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.
Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the "conjunctiva."
The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At the front, the sclera becomes clear and is called the "cornea."
Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris." Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK, because that is the color of the iris.
Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front of our eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole that opens into the back part of our eyes.
Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protect them. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!
The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.
Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
A human eyeball weighs an ounce.
If the lens in our eye doesn't work quite right, we can get glasses to help us see. Glasses have lenses in them that work with our eye's own lens to help us see better.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.
The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina." On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." These rods and cones help us to see colors and light.
Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.
Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the "conjunctiva."
The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At the front, the sclera becomes clear and is called the "cornea."
Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris." Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK, because that is the color of the iris.
Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front of our eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole that opens into the back part of our eyes.
Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
Facts about human body
Bones - The largest bones is the femur, or thigh bone, which is 20 inches in a six-foot tall man. The smallest bone is the stirrup in the ear, which is one-tenth of an inch. Each hand has 27 bones: eight in the wrist, five in the palm, and 14 in the fingers. A newborn baby has 300 bones, some of which fuse to form the final 206 in the adult.
Blood - In a child, there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels. An adult has 100,000 miles of blood vessels. The blood circulates through the body 1,000 times a day.
Brain - A newborn baby has a brain that weights three ounces. The average brain of an adult weighs three pounds. The brains is the "mission control center" of the body, sending our messages at a rate of 240 miles per hour. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
Cells - The cells are the body's building blocks. There are about 26 billion cells in an adult.
Eyes - Each eye weighs 1 1/4 ounces. The eyes are constantly in motion, even during sleep. Dreaming sleep especially is characterized by constant eye movement known as Rapid Eye Movement or "REM". Tears are normally secreted through two canals near the inner corner of the eyes.
Fluid - The body about 50% water. Blood is 83% water, muscles are 75% water, the brain 74% water, and the bones contain 22% water. In a single day, three pints of saliva are produced in the mouth.
Hair - Children have about 75,000 hairs on their heads, which grow about 1/100 of an inch daily. Hairs of different colors grow at different rates. Dark hair grows faster than light-colored hair. No one known why. Each hair on the scalp grows about five inches a year. A person loses about 50-70 head hairs per day. Eyelashes keep dust out of the eyes. An eyelash lives about 150 days before it falls out and is replaced.
Muscles - There are over 650 muscles in the body. The strongest muscle is the heart. It takes at least 14 muscles to smile. The largest muscle is the "gluteus maximus" or buttock. The smallest is located in the middle ear. Fingers have no muscles.
Nails - Nails are made up of a protein called keratin which also makes up the hair. Nails protect the ends of the fingers and toes. The half-moon at the root of the nail is called the lunule. Nails grow faster in summer than in winter. Fingernails grow fourtimes faster than toenails. Right - handed people's nails grow faster in their right hands. Left-handed people's nails grow faster on their left hand. The hair and nails of men grow faster than those of women.
Nose - More than 2,500 gallons of air flow through the average adult's nose in a day. The nose can recognize up to 1,000 different components of smells. (The nose doesn't smell an orange and recognize it as "oo! Orange!" What happens is your brain detects certain levels of smell "components" and then pieces it together like a puzzle to get "Ooo! Orange!") The nose is the air conditioning unit of the body. It cools or warms incoming air. It also filters the dirt and dust in the air.
Skin - The human body has six pounds of skin which is, on average, 1/20 of an inch thick. The two layers of skin are the epidermis and under it, the dermis. The skin is waterproof, it protects the body and helps to regulate body temperature. A substance called melanin colors the skin the more melanin, the darker the skin. A freckle is a dense concentration of melanin. A new layer of skin replaces the old layer approximately every 27 days, totalling about 1,000 new outer layers of skin a lifetime.
Teeth - Humans have 20 primary Baby teeth and 32 permanent teeth. By age 13 most people have 28 teeth. By age 18 the four "wisdom" teeth have grown in for a total of 32 permanent teeth.
Blood - In a child, there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels. An adult has 100,000 miles of blood vessels. The blood circulates through the body 1,000 times a day.
Brain - A newborn baby has a brain that weights three ounces. The average brain of an adult weighs three pounds. The brains is the "mission control center" of the body, sending our messages at a rate of 240 miles per hour. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
Cells - The cells are the body's building blocks. There are about 26 billion cells in an adult.
Eyes - Each eye weighs 1 1/4 ounces. The eyes are constantly in motion, even during sleep. Dreaming sleep especially is characterized by constant eye movement known as Rapid Eye Movement or "REM". Tears are normally secreted through two canals near the inner corner of the eyes.
Fluid - The body about 50% water. Blood is 83% water, muscles are 75% water, the brain 74% water, and the bones contain 22% water. In a single day, three pints of saliva are produced in the mouth.
Hair - Children have about 75,000 hairs on their heads, which grow about 1/100 of an inch daily. Hairs of different colors grow at different rates. Dark hair grows faster than light-colored hair. No one known why. Each hair on the scalp grows about five inches a year. A person loses about 50-70 head hairs per day. Eyelashes keep dust out of the eyes. An eyelash lives about 150 days before it falls out and is replaced.
Muscles - There are over 650 muscles in the body. The strongest muscle is the heart. It takes at least 14 muscles to smile. The largest muscle is the "gluteus maximus" or buttock. The smallest is located in the middle ear. Fingers have no muscles.
Nails - Nails are made up of a protein called keratin which also makes up the hair. Nails protect the ends of the fingers and toes. The half-moon at the root of the nail is called the lunule. Nails grow faster in summer than in winter. Fingernails grow fourtimes faster than toenails. Right - handed people's nails grow faster in their right hands. Left-handed people's nails grow faster on their left hand. The hair and nails of men grow faster than those of women.
Nose - More than 2,500 gallons of air flow through the average adult's nose in a day. The nose can recognize up to 1,000 different components of smells. (The nose doesn't smell an orange and recognize it as "oo! Orange!" What happens is your brain detects certain levels of smell "components" and then pieces it together like a puzzle to get "Ooo! Orange!") The nose is the air conditioning unit of the body. It cools or warms incoming air. It also filters the dirt and dust in the air.
Skin - The human body has six pounds of skin which is, on average, 1/20 of an inch thick. The two layers of skin are the epidermis and under it, the dermis. The skin is waterproof, it protects the body and helps to regulate body temperature. A substance called melanin colors the skin the more melanin, the darker the skin. A freckle is a dense concentration of melanin. A new layer of skin replaces the old layer approximately every 27 days, totalling about 1,000 new outer layers of skin a lifetime.
Teeth - Humans have 20 primary Baby teeth and 32 permanent teeth. By age 13 most people have 28 teeth. By age 18 the four "wisdom" teeth have grown in for a total of 32 permanent teeth.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
1 Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4 On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5 Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6 Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
7 Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9 There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10 Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
11 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.
12 The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
13 By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
14 Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
15 Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16 The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
17 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18 Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
19 Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
20 The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21 To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23 The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24 The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
27 Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
28 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29 In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
30 A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31 We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32 Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines .
33 Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
34 Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35 Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36 When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka .
37 There are more chickens than people in the world.
38 The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39 There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C.
40 The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41 The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
42 The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43 The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44 Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45 The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46 Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48 A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
49 Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
50 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
51 When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53 A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
54 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
55 Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
56 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
57 "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
58 Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
59 The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
60 If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
61 China has more English speakers than the United States .
62 Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63 Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64 An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65 Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
66 Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
67 According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68 The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69 If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70 Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
71 Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72 More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
73 Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74 Coca-Cola was originally green.
75 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76 The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77 There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .
78 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79 Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
80 You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
81 It is impossible to lick your elbow.
82 People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83 It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84 The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85 If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86 Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88 If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89 If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90 If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91 Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93 A snail can sleep for three years.
94 All polar bears are left handed.
95 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96 Butterflies taste with their feet.
97 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
98 In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99 On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
100 Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
101 Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
102 The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
103 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
104 The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
105 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
106 The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
107 Most lipstick contains fish scales.
108 And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
2 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4 On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5 Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6 Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
7 Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9 There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10 Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
11 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.
12 The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
13 By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
14 Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
15 Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16 The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
17 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18 Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
19 Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
20 The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21 To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23 The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24 The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
27 Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
28 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29 In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
30 A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31 We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
32 Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines .
33 Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
34 Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
35 Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36 When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka .
37 There are more chickens than people in the world.
38 The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39 There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C.
40 The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
41 The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
42 The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43 The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44 Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45 The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
46 Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48 A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
49 Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
50 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
51 When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
52 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
53 A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
54 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
55 Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
56 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
57 "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
58 Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
59 The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
60 If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
61 China has more English speakers than the United States .
62 Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
63 Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
64 An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
65 Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
66 Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
67 According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68 The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69 If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70 Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
71 Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72 More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
73 Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74 Coca-Cola was originally green.
75 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76 The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77 There are two credit cards for every person in the United States .
78 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79 Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
80 You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
81 It is impossible to lick your elbow.
82 People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83 It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84 The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85 If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86 Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
87 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
88 If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
89 If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
90 If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91 Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
92 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
93 A snail can sleep for three years.
94 All polar bears are left handed.
95 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96 Butterflies taste with their feet.
97 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
98 In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
99 On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
100 Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
101 Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
102 The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
103 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
104 The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
105 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
106 The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
107 Most lipstick contains fish scales.
108 And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
Animal Facts For Kids
The blood pressure of a giraffe is the highest in comparison to every animal species.
Flash the color orange in front of a zebra and it will not be able to see it. So, be careful not to paint a wall orange where zebras wander!
In one square foot or forest space you will find more insects than you can find human beings in that much space in Manhattan.
You can lead a cow up the stairs, but not down the stairs.
The dumbest dog is the Afghan hound.
The smartest breeds of dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie.
A rat can survive longer than a camel without water.
A giant squid’s eyes are the largest amongst animal species measuring upto 40 cm (16 inches) in diameter.
Sharks are very healthy, as they are immune to all known diseases.
How many types of pure breed dogs are there in the world? 701
According to records, there are more dogs in Paris than there are people.
Some bird species (mainly the flightless birds) only have a lower eyelid.
Insects and fish have no eyelids. Hardened lens protect their eyes.
The spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird, flying at the speed of 170 km/h.
The Frigate is the second fastest bird, flying at a maximum speed of 150 km/h.
Squirrels accidentally plant millions of trees, as they bury their nuts and forget where they are.
Australia has a population of 17 million people and 150 million sheep.
The population of New Zealand is 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
Flash the color orange in front of a zebra and it will not be able to see it. So, be careful not to paint a wall orange where zebras wander!
In one square foot or forest space you will find more insects than you can find human beings in that much space in Manhattan.
You can lead a cow up the stairs, but not down the stairs.
The dumbest dog is the Afghan hound.
The smartest breeds of dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie.
A rat can survive longer than a camel without water.
A giant squid’s eyes are the largest amongst animal species measuring upto 40 cm (16 inches) in diameter.
Sharks are very healthy, as they are immune to all known diseases.
How many types of pure breed dogs are there in the world? 701
According to records, there are more dogs in Paris than there are people.
Some bird species (mainly the flightless birds) only have a lower eyelid.
Insects and fish have no eyelids. Hardened lens protect their eyes.
The spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird, flying at the speed of 170 km/h.
The Frigate is the second fastest bird, flying at a maximum speed of 150 km/h.
Squirrels accidentally plant millions of trees, as they bury their nuts and forget where they are.
Australia has a population of 17 million people and 150 million sheep.
The population of New Zealand is 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
Strange Animal Facts
A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation!
No dentist for this creature! Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set!
A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth.
Gaggle is a group of geese waddling on the ground. And the same group up in the air would be renamed skein.
On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.
A standing 4-foot child can fit into the open of a hippopotamus.
A coin is heavier than a hummingbird!
It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length.
The longest slumber ever! A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch.
Recycling! A housefly regurgitates the food it eats and then eats it again!
Here is some news for the left-handed people – they are not the only ones, as all polar bears are left-handed.
An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet.
Place a black light over a cat’s urine and watch it glow!
Dogs and cats are either right or left-pawed!
While human fingerprints are a means of their identification; the nose prints are a means of identifying dogs.
A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch.
The butterfly was originally known as the ‘flutterby’.
The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.
All the termites of the world outweigh the human beings of the world. The ratio is 10:1!
The chow is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue.
No dentist for this creature! Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set!
A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth.
Gaggle is a group of geese waddling on the ground. And the same group up in the air would be renamed skein.
On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.
A standing 4-foot child can fit into the open of a hippopotamus.
A coin is heavier than a hummingbird!
It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length.
The longest slumber ever! A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch.
Recycling! A housefly regurgitates the food it eats and then eats it again!
Here is some news for the left-handed people – they are not the only ones, as all polar bears are left-handed.
An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet.
Place a black light over a cat’s urine and watch it glow!
Dogs and cats are either right or left-pawed!
While human fingerprints are a means of their identification; the nose prints are a means of identifying dogs.
A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch.
The butterfly was originally known as the ‘flutterby’.
The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.
All the termites of the world outweigh the human beings of the world. The ratio is 10:1!
The chow is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue.
Funny Animal Facts
Have you heard of a sheep with blue wool? Well, a couple of animal breeders from Russia had claimed sometime ago that they bred sheep with natural blue wool.
“Moo, moo,” says the cow everywhere in the world; and a pig says “Moo, moo” in Japan.
The eyesight of dogs are better than that of human beings.
Animal accents! The accent of a cow’s mooing depends on the region it belongs to.
On an average a hen lays 19 dozen eggs in a year.
The small intestine of an ostrich measures upto 46-feet in length.
Your pet cat can scare a black bear. The big fellow will run up a tree to save itself from the little domestic creature. Meow, meow!
Sleeping beauties! Gorillas sleep upto fourteen hours, a day.
While the male lion rests in its den, it is the females that have go out and get the food.
Simon says Jump! No point an elephant simply cannot jump to even save its life.
No right turn! The bats do not need any boards, for its always the left turn for them when exiting a cave.
Sharks are the only known species to never suffer from cancer.
Heavyweights! The tongue of a blue whale could weigh more than a full-grown adult elephant.
Oysters change from male to female gender several times during their lifespan.
Every shrimp is actually born a male and then become females as they mature.
An elephant can smell water from a distance of three miles.
A storage bin! The duckbill platypus is known to store upto six hundred worms in its cheek pouches.
Music lovers! Make a cow listen to music and there will be more milk in the bucket!
“Moo, moo,” says the cow everywhere in the world; and a pig says “Moo, moo” in Japan.
The eyesight of dogs are better than that of human beings.
Animal accents! The accent of a cow’s mooing depends on the region it belongs to.
On an average a hen lays 19 dozen eggs in a year.
The small intestine of an ostrich measures upto 46-feet in length.
Your pet cat can scare a black bear. The big fellow will run up a tree to save itself from the little domestic creature. Meow, meow!
Sleeping beauties! Gorillas sleep upto fourteen hours, a day.
While the male lion rests in its den, it is the females that have go out and get the food.
Simon says Jump! No point an elephant simply cannot jump to even save its life.
No right turn! The bats do not need any boards, for its always the left turn for them when exiting a cave.
Sharks are the only known species to never suffer from cancer.
Heavyweights! The tongue of a blue whale could weigh more than a full-grown adult elephant.
Oysters change from male to female gender several times during their lifespan.
Every shrimp is actually born a male and then become females as they mature.
An elephant can smell water from a distance of three miles.
A storage bin! The duckbill platypus is known to store upto six hundred worms in its cheek pouches.
Music lovers! Make a cow listen to music and there will be more milk in the bucket!
Interesting Animal Facts
A single cow lets out the amount of harmful methane gas, which can fill about 400-liter bottles; that too in a single day. Pollution!
Roar, roar! I am the king of the jungle! But did you know the lion would be defeated by a polar bear in a battle between the two?
Humans daydream with their eyes open, and dolphins actually sleep with their eyes wide open.
Bulls are known to be colorblind. It’s a black-and-white life for them!
The sweat glands of a cow are in its nose.
This is really interesting! You will not believe this one! A mosquito has 47 teeth.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison stored in it that it can harm 2,200 people at one go.
A ‘blessing’ is a herd of unicorns.
A ‘mob’ is not just a group of unruly people; but also a group of kangaroos – well behaved or not!
A ‘parliament’ is not just made up of our dear politicians, but is also a group of owls.
Hang a chicken upside down and give it something to eat. The result! It will not be able to swallow its food.
Brainpower! A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
The memory span of goldfish is just about 3 seconds.
While a donkey will sink in quicksand, a mule will not.
According to records there are 50 million monkeys. That is quite an over population!
An angry horned-toad squirts blood from its eyes. Bloodshot eyes!
My blue-eyed boy! A scallop has 35 eyes that are blue in color.
Before a spotted skunk is about to spray it will first do a couple of handstands.
Roar, roar! I am the king of the jungle! But did you know the lion would be defeated by a polar bear in a battle between the two?
Humans daydream with their eyes open, and dolphins actually sleep with their eyes wide open.
Bulls are known to be colorblind. It’s a black-and-white life for them!
The sweat glands of a cow are in its nose.
This is really interesting! You will not believe this one! A mosquito has 47 teeth.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison stored in it that it can harm 2,200 people at one go.
A ‘blessing’ is a herd of unicorns.
A ‘mob’ is not just a group of unruly people; but also a group of kangaroos – well behaved or not!
A ‘parliament’ is not just made up of our dear politicians, but is also a group of owls.
Hang a chicken upside down and give it something to eat. The result! It will not be able to swallow its food.
Brainpower! A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
The memory span of goldfish is just about 3 seconds.
While a donkey will sink in quicksand, a mule will not.
According to records there are 50 million monkeys. That is quite an over population!
An angry horned-toad squirts blood from its eyes. Bloodshot eyes!
My blue-eyed boy! A scallop has 35 eyes that are blue in color.
Before a spotted skunk is about to spray it will first do a couple of handstands.
Amazing Animal Facts
A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. Wow! What an appetite!
Apart from human’s even chimpanzees can learn to recognize their own image in a mirror.
A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!
While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots.
A probable identity crisis we have here! Though named polecat, this creature is not a cat but a nocturnal weasel-species in Europe.
Is a zebra black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? Any guesses? Well, it’s white with black stripes.
Talk about noise pollution in the jungles! A lion’s roar is so loud that it can heard upto a distance of five miles.
Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping dog. Beware, it is loud enough to be heard upto a mile away.
The tusks of elephants grow through their life. The tusks weigh over 200 pounds.
Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.
The male and female African elephants have tusks.
The largest ever lobster to be found weighed 19 kg. It was found in 1934.
The largest recorded jellyfish measured 2,3 m across its bell. Its tentacles measured 36 m (120 feet) in length.
The largest giant squid ever found weighed 4 tons. It was traced in the in the North Atlantic in the year 1878.
Apart from human’s even chimpanzees can learn to recognize their own image in a mirror.
A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!
While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots.
A probable identity crisis we have here! Though named polecat, this creature is not a cat but a nocturnal weasel-species in Europe.
Is a zebra black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? Any guesses? Well, it’s white with black stripes.
Talk about noise pollution in the jungles! A lion’s roar is so loud that it can heard upto a distance of five miles.
Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping dog. Beware, it is loud enough to be heard upto a mile away.
The tusks of elephants grow through their life. The tusks weigh over 200 pounds.
Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.
The male and female African elephants have tusks.
The largest ever lobster to be found weighed 19 kg. It was found in 1934.
The largest recorded jellyfish measured 2,3 m across its bell. Its tentacles measured 36 m (120 feet) in length.
The largest giant squid ever found weighed 4 tons. It was traced in the in the North Atlantic in the year 1878.
Extinct Animal Facts
The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65 million years ago. It was one of the largest animals. It measured up to 43.3 feet in length and 16.6 feet in height. It weighed approximately 7 tons.
The Quagga, which was half-zebra-half-horse animal species went into extinction in the year 1883. This is was one of the most famous animals of Africa. This animal had the zebra stripes only on the front part of the body, which would fade and become wider in the middle of the body, and the hindquarter was brown (no stripes). It was the cruel animal activities that led this animal to extinction. It was on 12th August 12, 1883, that the last of the Quaggas died at the Artis Magistra Zoo (Amsterdam).
The Tasmanian Tiger went into extinct in the year 1936. This animal is regarded to be the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern day and age. It was a native wildlife animal of Australia and New Guinea. Man and his evil ways led this animal to extinction.
Steller's Sea Cow was also known as the defenseless beast. It went into extinction in 1768. This creature’s natural habitat was on the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It got its name because it was discovered by a naturalist, Georg Stellar, in 1741. He was traveling with Vitus Bering, a renowned explorer. The animal was large weighing upto three tons. Though it looked almost like a seal, it had two forelimbs that were stout, as well as tail that was whale-like.
Irish Deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago. It was a native animal of Eurasia, grazing the land stretching from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal. It was large sized, with extra large antlers measuring upto 3.65 meters (12 feet from tip-to-tip). The antlers weighed about 90 pounds.
The Caspian Tiger was the third largest tiger species. The last of this tiger was seen in 1970, after which it has been declared amongst the extinct animal species. This tiger was found on the lands of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Aurochs was a large-sized cattle-species. It is recorded to have gone into extinction in 1627. It is said that this cattle evolved from India, migrating to the Middle-East, reaching Europe.
Here is an exhaustive list of other extinct animal species :
Antillean cave rat
Arabian gazelle
Barbados raccoon
Barbados rice rat
Basalt plains mouse
Bavarian pine vole
Big-eared hopping mouse
Blue buck
Canary mouse
Cayman Brac hutia
Cayman Brac nesophont
Cayman hutia
Central hare-wallaby
Central rock rat
Corsican shrew
Cuban spider monkey
Curio's giant rat
Dark flying fox
Desert rat-kangaroo
Dusky flying fox
Falkland Islands dog
Giant deer mouse
Goliath white-toothed shrew
Atlantic gray whale
Guam flying fox
Gull Island vole
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Imposter hutia
Jamaican monkey
Jamaican pallid flower bat
Large Corsican field vole
Large funnel-eared bat
Large ghost faced bat
Large Palau flying fox
Large sloth lemur
Large-eared tenrec
Long-tailed hopping mouse
Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus; common Malagasy hippo
Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus
Marcano's solenodon
Marianas flying fox
Negros naked-backed fruit bat
New Guinea big-eared bat
Omilteme cottontail
Pemberton's deer mouse
Przewalski's horse
Queen of Sheba's gazelle
Red gazelle
Sardinian pika
Saudi gazelle
Schaumburg’s deer
Sea mink
Short-horned water buffalo
Southeastern pocket gopher
Standing's hippo
Sturdee's Bonin pipistrelle
Swan Island hutia
Tanzania woolly bat
Tasmanian bettong
Tretretretre
Vietnam warty pig
West Indian porcupine
Western palm squirrel
White-footed rabbit-rat
The Quagga, which was half-zebra-half-horse animal species went into extinction in the year 1883. This is was one of the most famous animals of Africa. This animal had the zebra stripes only on the front part of the body, which would fade and become wider in the middle of the body, and the hindquarter was brown (no stripes). It was the cruel animal activities that led this animal to extinction. It was on 12th August 12, 1883, that the last of the Quaggas died at the Artis Magistra Zoo (Amsterdam).
The Tasmanian Tiger went into extinct in the year 1936. This animal is regarded to be the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern day and age. It was a native wildlife animal of Australia and New Guinea. Man and his evil ways led this animal to extinction.
Steller's Sea Cow was also known as the defenseless beast. It went into extinction in 1768. This creature’s natural habitat was on the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It got its name because it was discovered by a naturalist, Georg Stellar, in 1741. He was traveling with Vitus Bering, a renowned explorer. The animal was large weighing upto three tons. Though it looked almost like a seal, it had two forelimbs that were stout, as well as tail that was whale-like.
Irish Deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago. It was a native animal of Eurasia, grazing the land stretching from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal. It was large sized, with extra large antlers measuring upto 3.65 meters (12 feet from tip-to-tip). The antlers weighed about 90 pounds.
The Caspian Tiger was the third largest tiger species. The last of this tiger was seen in 1970, after which it has been declared amongst the extinct animal species. This tiger was found on the lands of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Aurochs was a large-sized cattle-species. It is recorded to have gone into extinction in 1627. It is said that this cattle evolved from India, migrating to the Middle-East, reaching Europe.
Here is an exhaustive list of other extinct animal species :
Antillean cave rat
Arabian gazelle
Barbados raccoon
Barbados rice rat
Basalt plains mouse
Bavarian pine vole
Big-eared hopping mouse
Blue buck
Canary mouse
Cayman Brac hutia
Cayman Brac nesophont
Cayman hutia
Central hare-wallaby
Central rock rat
Corsican shrew
Cuban spider monkey
Curio's giant rat
Dark flying fox
Desert rat-kangaroo
Dusky flying fox
Falkland Islands dog
Giant deer mouse
Goliath white-toothed shrew
Atlantic gray whale
Guam flying fox
Gull Island vole
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Imposter hutia
Jamaican monkey
Jamaican pallid flower bat
Large Corsican field vole
Large funnel-eared bat
Large ghost faced bat
Large Palau flying fox
Large sloth lemur
Large-eared tenrec
Long-tailed hopping mouse
Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus; common Malagasy hippo
Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus
Marcano's solenodon
Marianas flying fox
Negros naked-backed fruit bat
New Guinea big-eared bat
Omilteme cottontail
Pemberton's deer mouse
Przewalski's horse
Queen of Sheba's gazelle
Red gazelle
Sardinian pika
Saudi gazelle
Schaumburg’s deer
Sea mink
Short-horned water buffalo
Southeastern pocket gopher
Standing's hippo
Sturdee's Bonin pipistrelle
Swan Island hutia
Tanzania woolly bat
Tasmanian bettong
Tretretretre
Vietnam warty pig
West Indian porcupine
Western palm squirrel
White-footed rabbit-rat
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