Some interesting facts about life and the world: • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. • If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. • The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body. • You can't kill yourself by holding your breath • There is a city called Rome on every continent. • It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! • Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! • Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. • The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. • A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you. • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. • Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. • Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." • Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it. • On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. • More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. • More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. • Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. • The placement of a donkey's eyes in it’s' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! • The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. • Earth is the only planet not named after a god. • It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. • You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. • Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! • The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! • The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! • One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! • Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! • The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! • Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! • Women blink nearly twice as much as men. • Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. • Dolphins sleep with one eye open! • It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds • Slugs have 4 noses. • Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. • A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! • The average person laughs 10 times a day! • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain • The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime! • The most difficult item for a sewerage plant to process is pubic hair as it is insoluble. • Most lipstick contains fish scales! • It takes seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep! • The bullet-proof vest, windscreen wipers, laser printers and fire escapes were all invented by women! • In the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word in England! • It was the Chinese who invented sun glasses in the 13th century!