SOME UNKNOWN FACTS
1. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting
2. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
3. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body
4. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
5. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game
6. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die
7. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
8. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot
9. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
10. The average person laughs 13 times a day
11. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
12. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
13. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog
14. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump
15. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
16. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death
17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
18. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
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