Have a Heart

If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would increase
by 9.78 years.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics
Pillow Talk
A new survey of pillow primping practices indicates that 23% of people consider themselves
stackers; 20% plumpers; 16% are rollers; 16% cuddlers; while the reminder are smashers and
crunchers.
SOURCE: Survey by DuPont Co.
TB or Not TB?
Treatment-resistant tuberculosis has been reported in 42 states and Washington, D.C., up from 13
states during the tuberculosis epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
DID YOU KNOW?
The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row
SOURCE: Grossology: The science of Really Gross Things
DID YOU KNOW?
The typical American child watches 1,680 minutes of television per week (about two months a
year). The same youth spends 38 minutes a week in meaningful conversation with his or her
parents.
SOURCE: A.C. Nielson Co.
DID YOU KNOW?
. . . that a cricket's ears are on its knees? That a fly has tastebuds on its feet.
SOURCE: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
DID YOU KNOW?
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for
human consumption.
SOURCE: National Water Commission
DID YOU KNOW?
The aqualung, a device for breathing under water was invented by Jacques Cousteau and Emile
Gagnan of the French Navy in 1943 so that "frogmen" could put mines under enemy ships.
STRANGE BUT TRUE--
In 1994, scientists in Australia invented a way of removing fleece from sheep without shearing.
They injected the sheep with a special hormone, then wrapped them in lightweight hairnets. Three
weeks later, the fleece could be peeled off the sheep by hand.
where did the word nuclear related from
The word nuclear is related to the nucleus of an atom, it is often used to describe the energy
produced when a nucleus is split (fission) or joined with another (fusion).
Cockroach
Did you know that a cockroach will live 9 days without its head, before it starves to death
einstein refuse
Did you know that EINSTEIN refuse the job to be the president of the israel they asked einstein
to be the president because their president is died in 1952.
Earliest Fossil Cockroach
Did you know?The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old 80 million years older
than the first dinosaurs.
Earliest fossil cockroach
Did you know? The earliest fosill cockroach is about 280 million years old 80 million years older
than the first dinosaurs
newts are also an amphibian
newts are member of salamander family.they are found in north america, europe and also in asia
Does 7-Up contain lithium?
The original formula for 7-Up contained lithium citrate, a chemical used today as a treament for
bipolar disorders. The ingredient was ultimately removed by 1950.
Where does cashmere wool come from?
Cashmere comes from the wool of the Kashmir goat from the mountains around the Kashmir
region of India.
How hot is a lightbulb's filament?
The tungsten filament inside an incandescent lightbulb reaches a temperature of 4,664 degrees
Fahrenheit when turned on.
What makes turquoise blue?
Traces of copper give turquoise its distinctive blue color.
No Brains
Starfish (as with many radially symmetric animals) do not have brains.

Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants
have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!
If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.
Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are
extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems,
heart problems and very little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition.
In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
Half your bodys red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.
Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound over a thousand
feet per second!
Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest
green vegetables and beans (also making gases pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which
causes blood to clot. If we didnt have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut!
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. Its mostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses
millions of skin cells every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a
room. You could say, Thats me all over.
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
Submitted by: Lovella
A humans small intestine is 6 meters long.
The human body is 75% water.
Submitted by: veggykid15
Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a humans blood
vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. Thats enough to go around the world twice.
Submitted by: Todd
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and its hollow!
Submitted by: aquagirl
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
Submitted by: blue120
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away!
(140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) Thats the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it
easily as a dim, large gray cloud almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.
Submitted by: Todd
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
Submitted by: Christina & Jessica
Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
Submitted by: Christina & Jessica
Your brain is 80% water.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot.
Submitted by: Josh
A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.
You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.
There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you
only have 206.
The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear!
Submitted by: The Phoenix
Your mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!
Submitted by: Devin
When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your
spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done!
Submitted by: Katie Mae
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Submitted by: Mazda Roxx
The average growth of hair is half an inch per month.
Submitted by: Amylia
If hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long.
Submitted by: Amylia
Your tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest muscles in your body.
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body!
Did you know porpoises could surf? They are frequently seen riding the bow wave of a ship. They make
no swimming motions and can ride the wake for more than an hour. They can also turn on their side or
flip completely around. Surfs up porpe!
Fish swimming at depths of 15,000 feet (almost 3 miles down!) can withstand a pressure of 7,000 pounds
per square inch. They are able to live in these crushing depths by pumping gas into their swim bladder.
You may have heard someone say, Its raining cats and dogs. There have been actual documented
cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining
down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.
The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as
much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.
Some animals produce their own lights, called bioluminescence. The Brazilian railroad worm has a red
light on its head and green lights down its side. All it needs to drive on the street is a turn signal.
The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speed of 168-217 miles per hour.
The largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. It is 6 to 8 inches in length and 4
to 6 inches in diameter. The smallest is that of the hummingbird. It is less than 0.39 inches in diameter.
Whether an alligator is a male or female can be determined by the temperature of the nest where the egg
is hatched 90 to 93 degrees will make it a male; 82 to 86 degrees will turn it into a female.
Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marions tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116
years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years).
An electric eel can produce a shock of 600 volts. Thats enough to stun large animals even knock
a horse off its feet.
Cows can sleep standing up.
Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because
Salamanders hibernate in wood.
Some frogs can pull their eyes into their throat and help push food down!
An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day; thats four percent of the
elephants body weight!
The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are
only one-half-inch long when they are full grown.
The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!
Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard!
Hummingbirds flap their wings between 50 and 70 times a second!
When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black ink.
There are about 100 billion birds in the world, and about 6 billion of them make their homes in the United
States.
The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow.
The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds.
The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly
like a firecracker.
Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above
the surface.
Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.
Adult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is
done to either giraffe.
The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
The black-necked cobra, which lives mostly in Africa, spits its venom into the eyes of its victim, to cause
it blindness.
When two lovebirds appear to be kissing, they are actually grooming each other with their bills to keep
clean and neat.
A bird called the bee eater in areas of Africa thinks that riding around on the backs of other animals is
fun!
The dipper bird builds nests behind waterfalls for protection.
Vultures can soar for hours without one beat of their wings.
Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them.
Foxes sometimes nip at the heals of cattle so the stomping of the cattle makes mice and other rodents
come out of the ground, for the fox to eat.
The guanaco of South America, a cousin of the camel, has pads on its feet to keep its feet from burning on
desert sand or freezing in mountain snow.
The fiddler crab can grow a new claw when it loses one of its own.
Blue jays often forget where they hide winter supplies of food.
The largest bird egg ever laid was laid millions of years ago by the Madagascar, or the elephant bird.
Today, the ostrich is the bird that lays the largest eggs.
Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.
Some ducks and geese can fly as much as 332 miles a day!
The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!
The Egyptian vulture uses stones to smash ostrich eggs.
Birds save energy by flying in a V formation.
Theodore Roosevelt was the U.S. President with the most pets, including a lion, hyena, wildcat, five
bears, and many more!
Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea.
Salamanders breath through their skin.
People used to think the Manatee was a mermaid.
Some fish have eyes that are the same size as their stomach!
A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach!
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.You dont see all of them because
most are too fine and light to be noticed.
The bee frog of Africa is no bigger than a bee.
An okapis tongue can grow to be 17 inches long.
Cows have four-chambered stomachs.
Fish have gel-slime on their bodies that protects them from parasites.
An owls eyes are bigger than its brain.
The faster kangaroos hop, the less energy they use.
The flying fox of Africa has a wingspan of fifty inches!

Giraffes have black tongues.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
Some frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and continue living.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
A ducks quack has no echo.
Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs can only make 10.
Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes.
Starfish have eight eyesone at the end of each leg.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The only bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird.
Alligators cannot move backwards.
A starfish doesnt have a brain.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
The Arctic tern flies an average of 22,000 miles a year!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Camels have three sets of eyelids.
The flying fox is a bat with a wing span over five feet.
On ostrichs egg weighs 3 1/2 pounds.
A giant squids eyes are bigger than dinner plates.
Dogs sweat only through their tongues.
A kangaroo can jump 45 feet!
A rabbits teeth never stop growing.
You can lead a cow up a stairwell but not down a stairwell.
Dogs cant see colors. Theyre color blind.
Squirrels cant remember where they hide half of their nuts.
The stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut!
Bats always turn left when they leave their caves.
Octopuses have 3 hearts.
A giraffes tongue can measure 21 inches.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
Some wild tigers can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time, and not eat again for several days.
The first animal sent up to outer space was a dog.
The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived (it could reach 100 feet long and weight up to 150
tons!)
The smallest frog is less than 3/8 of an inch in length.
The smallest cat is the Singapuras and weighs only 4 pounds.
Most hamsters blink one eye at a time.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Cows have four stomachs.
Only one mammal cant jump the elephant.
Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.
A goldfish can live up to 40 years.
A peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 200 miles per hour.
A skunk can spray its stench twelve feet away.
Female lions do 90% of the hunting.
A duck has three eyelids.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
A gecko uses its tounge to clean its eyeballs!