FACTS

UNBELIEVABLE FACTS....

1. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
2. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”
3. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
4. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

6. There are more young people in the world than ever before, creating unprecedented potential for economic and social progress.
7. Women in sub-Saharan Africa are as likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth as women in nineteenth-century England , when Charles Dickens described these horrors in Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.
8. A staggering 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using modern contraceptives. And tens of millions of women do not receive the basic pregnancy and delivery care they need.
9. Despite prohibitions, child marriage remains widespread around the world. About 37,000 child marriages take place each day.
10. Complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the second leading killer of adolescent girls in developing countries.

11. It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
12. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
13. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
14. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
15. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

16.There’s volcano in Indonesia that spews blue lava.
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17.After reading this post you will not recognize that the the brain doesn’t recognize the second ‘the’.
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18.Bubble wrap was originally intended to be used as wallpaper.
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19.Every human being starts out as an asshole: it’s the first part of the body to form in the womb.
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20.Receiving a text message which says, “”can I ask you a question” is known to scare 99% of people!

21. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days .
22. The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan . It’s 10 metres underwater.
23. In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to
fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn’t work.
24. The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle), and were
made from animal and fish intestines.
25. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.