51 amazing facts

1. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why?
   
2. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
   
3. The one millionth digit of pi is a one.
   
4. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
5. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
   
6. 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.
   
7. 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.
   
8. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
   
9. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "Go Hang Yourself."
   
10. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
    
11. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
    
12. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
    
13. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
    
14. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
    
15. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
    
16. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
    
17. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
    
18. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
    
19. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
    
20. 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.
    
21. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
    
22. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
    
23. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
    
24. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day!
    
25. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
    
26. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
    
27. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
    
28. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
    
29. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
    
30. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
    
31. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
    
32. All polar bears are left handed.
    
33. Butterflies taste with their feet.
    
34. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
    
35. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
    
36. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
    
37. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
    
38. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
    
39. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
    
40. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
    
41. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
    
42. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
    
43. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminium foil before inserting them.
    
44. A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
    
45. Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
    
46. 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."
    
47. Hippo milk is pink.
    
48. All 13 minerals necessary for human life can be found in alcohol beverages.
    
49. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
    
50. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
    
51. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".