Blow Your Mind With These 99 Amazing Facts

These 99 facts are so amazing, they will totally blow your mind!

1. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

2. The average cow produces 70,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.

3. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

4. A queen honeybee can lay as many as 1,500 eggs a day.

5. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

6. There are 364 gifts in the Christmas song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

7. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

8. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

9. By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds.

10. Elephants drink a minimum of 50 gallons of water a day.

11. Lions can mate more than 50 times a day.

12. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

13. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

14. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated. While it might be gross to think about, the blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive and conscious for a few seconds after the head has been separated from the body, though reports as to the accuracy of this are widely varying.

15. If you tried to count off a billion seconds, it would take you 31.7 years.

16. A tapeworm can grow to a length of 30 feet inside of human intestines.

17. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

18. There are about 10 trillion ways to play the first 10 moves in a game of chess.

19. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

20. A giraffe’s tongue is 17 inches long.

21. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

22. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

23. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.

24. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.

25. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water.

26. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

27. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.

28. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

29. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

30. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

31. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

32. Hot water is heavier than cold.

33. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

34. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

35. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.

36. A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

37. An adult electric eel generates enough electricity to power a medium-size house.

38. Cockroaches can flatten themselves almost to the thinness of a piece of paper in order to slide into tiny cracks. They can be frozen for weeks and then melt with no ill effect. They can also withstand 126 g’s of pressure with no problem (people get squished at 18 g’s).

39. First song ever sung in space: “Happy Birthday,” performed by the Apollo astronauts on March 08, 1969.

40. A cat's urine glows under a black light.

41. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

42. Ants have five noses. Each one smells a different odor.

43. Goldfish remember better in cold water than in warm water.

44. If a pig is sick, it stops curling its tail.

45. If saliva can’t dissolve it, you can’t taste it.

46. If you’re right-handed, nails on your right hand grow faster; if you’re left-handed, nails on your left will.

47. It takes three minutes for a fresh mosquito bite to begin to itch.

48. Rain contains vitamin B12.

49. Spiders don’t eat their prey; they paralyze the victim with venom, vomit a wad of acidic liquid onto them, and then drink the dissolved body.

50. Tears are made up of almost the same ingredients as urine.

51. The easiest sound for the human ear to hear is “ah.”

52. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

53. The smell in your right nostril is more pleasant, but your left nostril is more accurate.

54. The World’s Youngest Ever Parents were eight and nine years old, and lived in China in 1910.

55. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

56. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

57. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

58. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

59. Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

60. Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

61. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

62. Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

63. Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.

64. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.

65. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

66. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.

67. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

68. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

69. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

70. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

71. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

72. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

73. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

74. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

75. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

76. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!

77. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

78. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it.

79. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

80. It takes four gallons of seawater to make a pound of salt.

81. Only the female mosquitoes eat blood. Males eat sap.

82. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

83. When a cat died in ancient Egypt, its owners shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of mourning.

84. When he needed inspiration, Ludwig Van Beethoven poured water on himself.

85. Bruce Lee could perform one hand push-ups using only his thumb and index, perform 50 reps of one arm chin-ups, and throw a single grain of rice in the air and catch it with chop sticks.

86. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.

87. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

88. The brain is much more active at night than during the day.

89. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.

90. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.

91. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.

92. It is not possible to tickle yourself. Even the most ticklish among us do not have the ability to tickle ourselves.

93. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

94. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!

95. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

96. Alexander Graham Bell refused to have a phone in his study because the ringing drove him nuts.

97. Earwax production is necessary for good ear health. While many people find earwax to be disgusting, it’s actually a very important part of your ear’s defense system. It protects the delicate inner ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt and even insects. It also cleans and lubricates the ear canal.

98. Babies are always born with blue eyes. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.

99. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.