Amusing Facts - 24

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
 

The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon.
 

The sun is approximately 149 million kilometers from the earth.

There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
 

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.
 

The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour.

The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.

During the female orgasm, endorphins are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
 

The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.
 

According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.
 

Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.

Sex burns about 70-120 calories for a 130 pound woman, and 77 to 155 calories for a 170 pound man every hour.

Back in 1919 the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.

It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
 

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
 

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.
 

Over 80% of the brain is water.

On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.

In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
 

Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.

Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.

Two million red blood cells die every second.
 

A human eyeball weighs an ounce.

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.
 

A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
 

Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has.

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

Men are more likely to be colorblind than women. About one of out of 12 men are colorblind.
 

Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse.

 It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

 The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

 You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

 You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

 Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

 Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

 If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

 More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

 Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?

 The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

 If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

 Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.