· Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
· Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day
· Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer
· Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes
· A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
· If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles
· If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court
· Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints
· Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call
· Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted
· The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
· The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders
· Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour
· In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas
· Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen
· In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent
· The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year
· The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle
· Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name
· On average, a person has two million sweat glands
· Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
· Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
· Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
· The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples
· 97% of the earth's water is undrinkable
· The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it
· All babies are color blind when they are born
· Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old
· 14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed
· There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script
· Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses
· On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat
· There are no public toilets in Peru
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