Amazing Facts

• The turkey was domesticated in Mexico and brought to Europe in the 16th century.
• A large amount of the dust in you home is actually dead skin.
• Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years. 
• The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
• The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
• The dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
• Winston Churchill was born in the ladies' room during a dance.
• "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
• 20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
• In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
• When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. 
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• One out of 20 people have an extra rib. 
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
  squirt blood 30 feet.
• A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.
• The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.
• The Killer Whale (also known as Orca) is ac
• tually a type of dolphin.
• A snail can sleep for three years. 
• When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well. 
• If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
• Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
• There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.
• An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
• The name jaguar means, “A wild beast that can kill its prey with a single bound.”
• Wood frog can survive after its body gets mostly frozen and its heart stops beating during the arctic winter freeze.
• There are more head and spinal injuries from cheer-leading than from all other high school and college sports combined.
• The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
• When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. 
• What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. 
• The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10 inches.