did you know?

[zulie]

these are awesome! keep em coming!

[chanel]

I've learned more from this thread than from school :-)

[blue-eyed struck]

^ lol! I have some more:

Butterflies taste with their feet.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. ( stop chewing on your pen people!!! )

A snail can sleep for three years

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the
world's nuclear weapons combined.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall. ( DANG!

[chanel]

Your skin cells are all dead. If you're an average sized adult you are lugging around 5lbs of dead skin.

Most living cells seldom last more than a month or so, but there are some notable exceptions. Liver cells can survive for years. Brain cells last as long as you do (DUH) but you are issued a hundred billion or so at birth. That's all you're going to get. It has been estimated that you lose about 500 brain cells an hour. Good news is that the individual components of you brain cells are constantly renewed so that, as with the liver cells, no part of them is actually likely to be more than about a month old.

Your heart must pump 75 gallons of blood an hour. That equas 1,800 gallons a day, 657,000 gallons in a year-that's enough to fill 4 olympic-sized swimming pools!

That's all I have for now. There's a website called "Strange but true" If interested, click on the link. ;-)

yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~jonno/sbt.htm