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1. Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails
2. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
3. If you rub an onion on your foot – within 30 – 60 minutes you will be able to taste it
– this is because it travels through the blood stream
4. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath (if you hold it until you go unconscious,
you begin to breath normally as soon as you do)
5. On one square inch of human skin there are 20 million microscopic creatures
6. A snail can sleep for 3 – 4 years – during which period it does not need food
7. Giraffes can live longer without water than camels
8. The forces required to remove a foot from quicksand at a speed of one centimeter per
second would require the same amount of force as “that needed to lift a medium-sized car.”
9. Quicksand doesn’t directly kill humans as it is usually not very deep at all – it is the fact
that it can be incredibly difficult to remove yourself from quicksand that causes death by
the environment – such as exposure.
10. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelberg
11. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
12. 65% of those with autism are left handed
13. At over 2000 kilometers long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
14. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur
15. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air
16. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life
17. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade
