Fact or Fiction

Another forward that I received... wonder who has the time to gather all these "facts"... Nevertheless they are interesting

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Amazing 51 Facts -

• People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
• Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
• Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
• There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
• A male baboon can kill a leopard.
• When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
• Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
• Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
• Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
• Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
• American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
• The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
• In the 1930's America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
• There's a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
• Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
• Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
• The right lung takes in more air than the left.
• It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
• The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon, California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
• The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.
• No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
• SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
• A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
• DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
  
• A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
• The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
• The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
• DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
• CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
• The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
• OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
• POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
• KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
• ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
• OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.