Amazing Facts!!
* A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour! It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time!
* A woman's heart beats faster than a man's heart!
* If you are right-handed, your right fingernails grow faster! The middle fingernail grows faster than any other nail on the hand!
* The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
* 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' was the first novel to be written on a typewriter!
* The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
* The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
* It took 36 years for Noah Webster to write 'Webster's Dictionary'!
* The ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
* If you started counting the moment you were born, and continued counting without stopping until you were 65 years old, you still would not be up to a billion yet! If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! If a trillion dollar bills were stacked one on top of the other, the stack would be twice as high as Mt. Everest! If you layed down a trillion dollars end to end, it would circle the earth 3,882 times!
* There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
* Dry ice does not melt... it evaporates!
* A whip does not make a cracking sound because it hits something... it does because the tip of the whip is traveling faster than the speed of sound (760 miles per hour)!
Posted on 9/6/2003 7:23:59 PM