• Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans. Their lips are prehensile, their tongues are 21 inches long, and they cannot cough.
• The human heart creates so much pressure when it pumps out to the body that it can squirt blood to as far as about thirty feet away.
• Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.
• The human skin is thickest (1/5inch) on the upper back. It is the thinnest on the eyelids, where it is only 1/50th of an inch thick.
• Most honey bees die after they sting people as our skin is elastic, unsuitable for their stingers which are meant for harder in elastics skins.
• Ants make up 1/10th of the total world animal tissue. They can survive for up to 2days underwater. And ants have the largest brain in proportion to their size.
• Harrison ford has species of spider named after him.
• More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.
• Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
• Bill Gate’s house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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