Random Facts

Posted 03-11-2008 at 07:26 PM by Jack.Sparrow

I really don't know what blogs are for, so here you go

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.
Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
There is a an island of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific ocean that is twice the size of Texas.
If a woman reaches her 50th birthday without cancer or heart disease, she can expect to see 92
Every year, 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer
On average, 63 people each year in the UK die due to inhalation of animal hair.
The ball of chewed food in your mouth (before you swallow) is called a bolus. Introduce this fact to the dinner table in polite company.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.

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	they were nice
	Posted 03-13-2008 at 12:06 PM by BSantos1

	Dogs can't look up.
	Posted 03-23-2008 at 06:55 AM by asdasd

	Sorry, but you're wrong about that. My dog looked up "broma" for me today in my Spanish-English dictionary.
	Posted 03-29-2008 at 08:48 PM by weeniedog

	Random facts are fun because they lend themselves to the comment: Hey, I never knew that"
	Posted 04-01-2008 at 06:36 AM by jhonni

	Saw a tv documentary about that floating rubbish and could swear that the location was reported to be close to an island which was the site of a famous battle but just googled it and could find no such mention. Oh well maybe i was mistaken. Or maybe it was a different pile.
	Posted 05-15-2008 at 12:00 AM by deejay100six Updated 05-17-2008 at 09:33 AM by deejay100six

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