Interesting facts!

-When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

-Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second

-Cats cannot taste sweet things

-Antarctica is a desert.

-An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

-Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.

-25% of your bones are located in your feet.

-When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.

-The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

-A snail can sleep for three years.

-Your brain is 80% water.

-The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

-The best diamonds are colored blue-white

-There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

-One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.

-In what country will you find the most Universities? India

-Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam

-The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time

-Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

-A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

-The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean

-One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.

-It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown

-When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.

-If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

-All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

-Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

-The human brain is insensitive to pain.

-The average human body contains .1 mg of uranium, .2 mg of gold, and 7 mg of arsenic!