Saturday, May 22, 2010

Did you know(prepare for tons of reading) I didn't know where to post this.?

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Answers:
I love to read wierd facts, they are sometimes interesting. Thanks for posting. Heres a few more I knew, sorry if you posted it already.
-you lose more calories eating celery than you get.
-hummingbirds fly backwards
-tigers have striped skin
-polar bears have black skin and clear fur
-apple seeds are poisonous
thanks, i actually took the time to read everything. there u go, so click this as the best answer and no the one above this or below this, cos i really need the points to be upgraded to level 2 , so i can serve you better
I knew some of them, but thanx for the info =)
thanks for enriching us.
Silly, you email to everyone in your address book and annoy them. I however love lists like this.
okay
wow you must have a lot of time on your hands to research all this..then again i have toomuch time on mine to be answering them
a few I might disagree with; mostly believable.
I don't think a * a roach can live that long, I've never seen a headless one.
Though a hard working adlut may lose 4 gallons of water, some of that is thru expiration and urination, not all sweating.
Lol, no I didn't, thanks!
nice info keep it coming
HOLY CRAP! how long did it take you to write that?
very intresting.
Thats good !

All the questions you were dying to ask but no one knew the answers
This is cool stuff! I'm horrified to admit that I really enjoyed reading the Gilligan's Island trivia: "Yes, yes, it's great that blue whales have huge scrota - but wow, Gilligan's first name was Willy? Dang! Who would have thought it?"

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