1130. Body Facts

Ten billion scales of skin fall off your body every day.

1131. Fact

A comet's tail always points away from the sun. The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

1132. Fact

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

1133. Body Facts

Your body needs sleep. Staying awake for two weeks can be enough to kill you.

1134. Fact

A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.

1135. Fact

A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.

1136. Fact

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

1137. Fact

A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees farenheit.

1138. Fact

A Dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps

1139. Fact

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

1140. Body Facts

Dentists in the Far East used to pull teeth out with their bare hands! In China, they practised by pulling nails out of wood with their fingers.

1141. Body Facts

Urine doesn't contain bacteria. Becalmed or shipwrecked sailors used to drink it with no ill-effects.

1142. Fact

A duck has three eyelids.

1143. Fact

A duck's quack has no echo.

1144. Fact

A female mackerel lays 500,000 eggs at a time.

1145. Fact

A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!

1146. Fact

A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the s

1147. Fact

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

1148. Body Facts

When diarrhoea turns pale, it contains bits of the lining of your gut.

1149. Fact

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

1150. Fact

A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon

1151. Fact

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

1152. Fact

A gold fish's memory span is three seconds

1153. Fact

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

1154. Fact

A golf ball has 360 dimples

1155. Fact

A group of finches is called a Charm

1156. Fact

A group of frogs is called an army.

1157. Fact

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

1158. Fact

A group of goats is called a trip

1159. Fact

A group of hares is called a Husk

1160. Fact

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

1161. Body Facts

Pinworms cause an itchy bottom because they sneak out at night to lay their eggs there.

1162. Fact

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

1163. Fact

A group of officers is called a mess.

1164. Fact

A group of owls is called a parliament.

1165. Fact

A group of ravens is called a murder.

1166. Fact

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink

1167. Fact

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

1168. Fact

A group of whales is called a pod.

1169. Fact

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.

1170. Fact

A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or softboiled egg will not.

1171. Fact

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. (I'm going home to boil an egg tonight)

1172. Body Facts

All the bacteria living inside your body would fill six teaspoons.

1173. Fact

A housefly lives only two weeks.

1174. Fact

A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body

1175. Fact

A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp

1176. Fact

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

1177. Fact

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

1178. Fact

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

1179. Fact

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is of the ground.

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