INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Kangaroos cannot fart...

Originally Posted by Holdup

Kangaroos cannot fart...

How do you know? o.o

At the school i clean i read it on one of the kanagroo facts that are stuck on the wall in the science dep

[Mej]

7000 people are born every hour!!!

northeners are harder than southeners fact
what to argue about it shandy boy

Originally Posted by Holdup

At the school i clean i read it on one of the kanagroo facts that are stuck on the wall in the science dep

haha

• The temperature of a flash of lightening can reach 28,000°C (50,000°F)
• The parachute was invented more than 100 years before the aeroplane.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• The galaxy is so large light takes 100,000 years to cross it.
• The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
• The first stethoscope, invented in 1816, was made from a roll of paper.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats.
• The Amazon rain forest produces half of the world's oxygen supply.
• The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
• The only word in the English Language with all five vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
• Of all birds, the kiwi lays the largest egg in proportion to its body size.
• The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3 inch nail.
• Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
• When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.
• The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
• If you see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
• The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees.
• A normal rain drop falls at about 7 miles per hour.
• Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
• Male monkeys lose the hair on the top of their heads in the same way men do.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
• Starfish don't have brains.
• China was the first country to use paper money.
• Humans are the only animals that can blush.
• The average human has over 1,460 dreams a year.
• Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
• The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight.
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
• Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
• It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
• Baby robins eat up to 14 feet of earthworms every day.
• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
• The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
• Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food.
• The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
• A day on the planet mercury is twice as long as its year.
• Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.
• The sex of a baby crocodile is determined by the temperature in the nest and how deeply the eggs are buried.
• The three winter months in the southern hemisphere are June, July and August.
• "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• You can tell the sex of a horse by it's teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
• Time slows down near a black hole, inside it stops completely.
• The world's first underground train system was the London Underground in 1863.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
• Because of the rotation of the Earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

A joey (baby kangaroo) is born the size of a cherry and only weighs 1g (another school fact!)

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Jamiebridges123

• It takes 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

It has been reckoned that there are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

This would mean a velocity of blood of an average 8050000m/s. .338 rifle round is about 850m/s...

I don't know if they're true mate! Just c&p'd from another forum I use.

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Jamiebridges123

• Because of the rotation of the Earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

I can confirm that this one is cobblers