30 Random FACTS you must read

FACTS THAT YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE TRUE:

• You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.

• One of the ingredients needed to mak
  e dynamite is peanuts.

• The largest living organism in the world is a fungus, it is in Oregon, covering 2,200 acres and is still growing.

• Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

• Want chocolate smelling poo?  There is a pill for that.

• The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.

• Sea Lions have rhythm.  They are the only animal known to be able to clap in beat.

• While you sleep you can’t smell anything, even really, really bad or potent smells.

• Some tumors can grow hair, teeth, bones, even fingernails.

• Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.

• The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles, it is the Vatican City.

• Hippopotamus milk is pink.

• Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.

• Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.

• Snails take the longest naps, some lasting as long as three years.

• The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.

• Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.

• Don’t like mosquitoes?  Get a bat.  They eat 3,000 insects a night.

• A typical cough is 60 mph, a sneeze is often faster than 100 mph.

• Some fish cough.  Really.

• Are you terrified  that a duck is watching you?  Some people are.  That is Anatidaephobia.

• Goats have rectangular pupils in their eyes.

• There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.

• Cans of diet soda will float in water, regular soda cans will sink.

• Birds can not live in space – they need gravity or they can not swallow.

• Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.

• Your feet typically produce a pint of sweat every single day.

• On Venus, the planet, it rains metal.

• Baby koalas are fed poo by their parents after they are born, this helps them digest Eucalyptus leaves later in life.

• If a Donkey and a Zebra have a baby, it is called a Zonkey.

• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch is the hardest to pronounce town – you can visit it in Wales.

• A tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane.