AMAZING FACTS VOL 2

Hello ladies and gents i have scoured the internet finding these amazing facts.





In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained

A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day. Good night!

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

There is enough fuel in full jumbo jet tank to drive an average car four times around the world.

An average of 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel it burns.

San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that can move.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Women blink nearly twice as often as men.

Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin.

There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.

Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.

A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals that cause relaxation. Women seem to like light and frequent kisses while men like them more strenuous.


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