crazy facts 1

-The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
-It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
-Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
-Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
-There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
-Blue and white are the most common school colors.
-On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
-The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
-There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
-Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
-Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
-The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
-Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )