YET ANOTHER SET:
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
The Nile catfish swim upside down.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
The entire worlds output of urine, in one minute, takes about 45 minutes to go over the Niagra falls.
The bridge across the Niagra Falls began with a kite carrying a line across it.
Nobel, actually invented dynamite, (Dynamite no.1 and Ballistite) but when he saw the destruction it caused, he decided to do something benevolent with all the money he made. Hence the Nobel Prize.
Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
The eggs from the ovaris of a pig, when shot into another animal, can sterelise it, making it impotent.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
An Octopus has 3 hearts!
Porcupines float in water
In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child, in a New England State.
In the 1960's, the US spent millions developing a zero gravity pen for use in space, and the Russians...., they used pencils.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The hair on a polar bearis not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.
The gender of Reptiles are determined not by the sex genes, but by the temperature in which the egg is incubated. A certain temperature will produce a male and vice versa for a female.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Rubberbands last longer when refregerated
The Ribbon worm will start eating itself to avoid starvation
Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They'll 'snap' and sting themself.(DO NOT TRY IT.. mine snapped and went berserk towards ME! ROFLMAO)
No piece of dry square paper can be folded more than 11 times in half!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur
In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.
Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick.
More to come throughout the night.. Keep your eyes on this thread!!!!!
Ray