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Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

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.

Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.

Money isn’t made out of paper; it’s made out of cotton.

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

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

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

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more   calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples!

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

 

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This special Fun Facts post is all about food!

McDonald’s fast food chains employ over 1.5 million  people around the world.

There are around 2000 different plant types that  humans use to cultivate food.

Cutting onions releases a gas which causes a  stinging sensation when it comes into contact with your eyes. Your body  produces tears to dilute the irritant and remove it from your eyes.

Pumpkins are usually labelled as vegetables but they contain seeds and are technically fruit.

China is the largest producer of garlic, producing over 10 million tons in  2008 and accounting for over 75% of world output.

Technically speaking, strawberries aren’t even berries!

The average apple contains around 130 calories.

India is the world’s largest producer of bananas, producing nearly 22 million  tons in 2007.

A Macdonalds burger can take up to 3 years to disintegrate

We share 50% of our DNA with bananas

When bananas were first discovered they used to have black seeds

The oldest evidence for soup is from 6,000 B.C. and calls for hippopotamus and sparrow meat.

Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren’t really potato chips.

Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.

Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.

Consuming dairy may cause acne.

Most wasabi consumed is not real wasabi, but colored horseradish.

Apples belong to the rose family, as do pears and plums.

 

 

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A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.

People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze your heart stops for a mili-second.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

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

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

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

Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

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

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

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

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