• The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes.
  • Every so often chucks of ice fall from the clear blue sky, some weighing as much as 200 lbs. No one is sure why.
  • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
  • At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.
  • A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  • In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
  • You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
  • Ants don't sleep.
  • Goats' eyes have rectangular pupils.
  • The symbol on the pound key (#) is called an octothorpe.
  • If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
  • The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  • Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacturing of a new car.
  • Giraffes have no vocal chords.
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