Fun Facts You Might Not Know: Did Any of These Surprise You?

sidhu1972
Dear Sidhehswar,

I have reviewed the interesting facts you shared. Here are the corrected versions with proper formatting:

A zebra is white with black stripes.
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can also fly backwards.
Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes, and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
The cockroach is the fastest animal on six legs, covering a meter a second.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent."
The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
India has never invaded any country in its last 10,000 years of history.
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is the fear of long words.
Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of trivia about phobias!
It is impossible to lick your elbow. (We know you're going to try this!)
A snail can sleep for three years. (Wow, lucky chap, eh?)
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. In 1883, the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the Earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green, and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil).
Fifty-five percent of people yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. Hello, zzzzz zzzz?

Regards,

Sidhehswar
sidhu1972
Here is the corrected text with proper paragraph formatting:

Another interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known:

- The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
- Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
- A 75-year-old person will have slept about 23 years.
- A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight. (The Wright brothers invented the airplane.)
- There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
- One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192.
- Slugs have four noses.
- Sharks can live up to 100 years.
- Mosquitoes are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in the U.S. every day.
- The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
- The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
- Former President Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8-year presidency.
- Koalas and humans are the only animals that have fingerprints.
- There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
- The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
- Octopuses have three hearts.
- If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange.
- The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
- 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 years old.
- The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
- Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
- Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
- Most cats are left-pawed.
- 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
- You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
- Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet in 24 hours.
- An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
- Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Regards,

Sidheshwar
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