Liddle Facts

It's been a long time since I've seen fit to post anything here. But I felt that I needed to act to preserve a list that deserves to be somewhere on the internet in a form that is publicly editable. Not that it is publicly editable in my blog. But I will read all the emailed submissions that I receive for additions to or modifications of the list, and will update the list accordingly.

The list is Liddle Facts, and comes from the Wikipedia, where it is about to be taken down. Liddle Facts are little factoids Spring Valley Juice prints on the underside of its juice bottle lids. They're really cool, and because they're numbered, you can check whether your list is complete. If I modify the list at all, I will keep it on this page.

The first 140 facts of the 2004 series were printed in the bottle lids in black colour. At the end of 2005, they started with a second series, presented in a green cap. Those collected to date are as follows:

Pre-2004

20. The howler monkey can be heard clearly up to 4.8km away.
29. The world's largest pumpkin weighed 513kg.
72. A bee can fly at 24km/h.
74. The average speed of a fly is 7.2km/h.
76. Flamingoes turn pink from eating shrimp.
79. Broccoli and caulifower are actually flowers.
81. During a lifetime the average human spends 2 weeks kissing.
98. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the human body.
99. Pigs get sunburn.
102. Fish can drown.
118. Exercise releases endorphins, which make us feel good.
120. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
124. The world's largest animal is a blue whale.
128. The heaviest living dog is an English mastiff weighing 130kg.
135. Try Spring Valley Water with a Twist of fruit juice.
136. Experience new Spring Valley Apple and Cranberry juice.
138. Taste the tropics with Spring Valley Mango Banana nectar.
139. Nothing goes better with lunch than a Spring Valley juice.
140. Spring Valley Juice. Where taste comes naturally. 

2004

1. A goldfish has an attention span of 2 seconds.
2. Mosquitos are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
3. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
4. Cats have over one hundred vocal cords.
5. Children grow faster in the spring.
6. On average a human will spend two weeks of their lifetime kissing.
7. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime.
8. There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
9. Termites eat through wood twice as fast when listening to rock music.
10. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
11. A duck's quack doesn't echo.
12. Fish cough.
13. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
14. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
15. Cats can hear ultrasound.
16. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
17. The average woman consumes 1.4 kilograms of lipstick in her lifetime.
18. Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
19. Pigs get sunburnt.
20. An average person spends two weeks of their lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.
21. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
22. No piece of paper can be folded over more than 7 times.
23. About 18% of animal owners share their beds with their pets.
24. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
25. A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.
26. Fish can drown.
27. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
28. When the moon is directly overhead you weigh slightly less.
29. You burn 20 calories per hour chewing gum.
30. In a year, the average person walks six kilometres making their bed.
31. A group of owls is called a parliament.
32. A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.
33. Frowning burns more calories than smiling.
34. There are more than 30,000 diets on public record.
35. You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement.
36. You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.
37. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
38. Licking a stamp burns 10 calories.
39. Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight.
40. The largest fish is the whale shark, which can be over 15 metres long and weighs almost 2,000 kilograms.
41. A hummingbird's heart beats 23 times a second.
42. Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
43. Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.
44. Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.
45. Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
46. You have to play table tennis more than 24 hours to lose one kilogram.
47. One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.
48. The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
49. Giraffes can lick their own eyes.
50. Every hour the body replaces one billion cells.
51. An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
52. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
53. Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.
54. The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost 1,000 kilograms.
55. Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
56. The "silk" of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.
57. There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
58. Playing in a marching band is considered moderate exercise.
59. Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.
60. Dim lights reduce your appetite.
61. The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 15 centimetres depending on the temperature.
62. Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
63. Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in casinos.
64. The name for the space between your eyebrows is 'nasion'.
65. The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.
66. On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.
67. Cold water weighs less than hot water.
68. A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.
69. Butterflies were formerly known by the name "Flutterby".
70. The pineapple is a very big berry.
71. Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.
72. A housefly hums in the key of F.
73. Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.
74. Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
75. A banana is a giant herb.
76. Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.
77. A colony of bees has to fly 177,500 km and tap 4 million flowers to make one kilo of honey.
78. A scallop has a total of 35 eyes, all of which are blue.
79. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up to the sky.
80. Mountain goats are not goats. They are antelopes.
81. Flamingoes turn pink from eating shrimp.
82. Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
83. Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.
84. Slugs have 4 noses.
85. A honey bee can fly at 24 km per hour.
86. A Queen Bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day.
87. The average speed of a housefly is 7.5 kilometres per hour.
88. Almonds are members of peach family.
89. The only food that doesn't spoil is honey.
90. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
91. A snail breathes through its foot.
92. Shrimp can only swim backward.
93. Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
94. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump
95. 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
96. 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
97. You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
98. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 160 kilometres an hour.
99. Brain waves can be used to run an electric train.
100. The tongue is the fastest healing part of the human body.
101. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
102. The average human produces 38000 litres of saliva in a lifetime.
103. A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
104. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
105. The average person uses 567 Litres of water a day for personal use.
106. The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
107. The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
108. Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
109. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
110. Kangaroos can jump nearly 10 metres.
111. Squid can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
112. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
113. Frogs never drink.
114. The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 70 km/h.
115. The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out. (FALSE)(frog- in space) #Honeybees are the only insect that creates a form of food for humans.
116. Beavers were once the size of bears.
117. Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
118. A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones
119. Dolphins can jump up to 6 metres in the air.
120. A crocodile cannot move its tongue.
121. Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.
122. An ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
123. A single coffee tree produces only about half a kilogram of coffee beans per year.
124. The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star", by the Buggles.
125. Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
126. The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and fingertips.
127. The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
128. The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.
129. The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.
130. Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every ten hours.
131. The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.
132. The largest cheese ever-made weighed 23,000 kg.
133. Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping almost 5 metres high.
134. For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.
135. Over 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.
136. Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.
137. The Blue Whale's heart is the size of a small car.
138. There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.
139. The first typewriter was called the "literary piano".
140. Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.
141. The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.
142. The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to stay awake than caffeine.
143. A Grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse.
144. Today's "modern" wrestling moves have been seen in tomb drawings from ancient Egypt.
145. China only has one time zone.
146. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.
147. Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.
148. A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
149. The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way".
150. No two lip impressions are the same.
151. It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.
152. The word "purple" does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.
153. 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
154. The last letter to be added to our alphabet was "J".
155. There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.
156. Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
157. The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.
158. You exhale air at 24 km/h.
159. Arachibutlphobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
160. Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
161. Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
162. Way is the most frequently used noun in the English language.
163. The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.
164. Disco means "I learn" in Latin.
165. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
166. The world's longest goldfish measures 37.2 cm.
167. If all the salt was extracted from the oceans, it could cover the continents five feet deep.
168. The average person will spend 5 years eating during their lifetime.
169. A blind chameleon still changes colour to match its environment.
170. A butterfly's taste sensors are located below its feet.
171. A duck has three eyelids.
172. A group of goats is called a Trip.
173. A group of hares is called a Husk.
174. A group of kangaroos is called a Mob.
175. A group of owls is called a parliament.
176. A group of rhinos is called a Crash.
177. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
178. Bees have 5 eyes.
179. Every hour the body replaces one billion cells.
180. The average raindrop falls at 11.3 kilometres per hour.
181. Exercise releases endorphins, which make us feel good.
182. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
183. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
184. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
185. More Monopoly Money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
186. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 8,000 kilograms of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
187. A jiffy is an actual time measurement equalling 1/100th of a second.
188. The tomato is the word's most popular fruit, selling more than bananas and oranges.
189. It was once Law to say "God Bless you" to one who sneezed.
190. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
191. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can was introduced.

2008 Release

1. A corn ear always has even rows.
2. Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed.
3. Crickets' ears are located on their front legs.
4. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
5. A blue moon is the second full moon in the same month.
6. The tall chef's hat is called a toque.
7. Rabbit's [sic] front teeth never stop growing.
8. Females [sic] donkeys are called Jennies.
9. There is no word that rhymes with orange.
10. "Gephyrophobia" is the fear of crossing bridges.
11. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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13. Afghanistan is the only country name that begins with "A" but doesn't end in "A".
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15. Dueling is legal in Paraguay for registered blood donors.
16. A moment is one and a half minutes.
17. The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft is a contrail.
18. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
19. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
20. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
21. Camels are born without humps.
22. Bees are born fully grown.
23. Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
24. The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
25. Women blink almost twice as many times as men.
26. The falcon can fly at a top speed of 414.6 km/h.
27. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
28. Light from the moon takes 1.3 seconds to travel to Earth.
29. We see Saturn as it was about 80 minutes ago.
30. The sun rays take about eight minutes to reach earth.
31. 80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.
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33. There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
34. Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.
35. Air-filled tyres were used on bikes before cars.
36. Silkworms don't have lungs. They breath [sic] through their body.
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38. There are no street signs in Costa Rica.
39. A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
40. All elephants walk on tip-toe
41. A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.
42. The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.
43. A Donkey can see all four of its feet at all times.
44. The yo-yo originated in the Philippines as a hunting weapon.
45. Months that begin with Sunday always have a "Friday the 13th"
46. Bats are the only mammal [sic] that can fly.
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48. The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
49. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
50. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
51. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
52. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
53. Mammals' blood is red, insects' is yellow, and lobsters' blue.
54. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
55. Fish can suffer from insomnia.
56. At birth a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
57. The blue whales tongue is heavier than an elephant.
58. An albatross can sleep while it flies.
59. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
60. Astronauts cannot burp in space.
61. Earth is not round. It is slightly pear-shaped.
62. Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
63. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
64. The underside of a horses hoof is called a frog.
65. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
66. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
67. An exocannibal eats enemies. An indocannibal eats friends.
68. A plant always looks like its grandparents
69. Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue.
70. It is impossible to suck your elbow.
71. The apple is a member of the rose family.
72. Botanically speaking the banana is a herb.
73. To make one kilo of honey, bees have to visit 4 million flowers.
74. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.
75. The giant squid is the largest animal without a backbone.
76. An adult lion's roar can be heard up to 5 miles away.
77. An elephant can drink 80 gallons of water in a day.
78. The hump of a camel can weigh up to 35kgs.
79. Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of 2.
80. The common housefly hums in the musical key of F.
81. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
82. Einstein was a bad speller
83. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world
84. Plastic is made out of 50% seaweed.
85. You breathe about ten million times a year.
86. The ancient Chinese made the first toilet paper.
87. The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.
88. Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.
89. Raindrops aren't really shaped like drops, they are perfectly round!
90. The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
91. Babies are born with 300 bones, but adults only have 206.
92. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
93. Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.
94. Hamburgers have increased in size by 15% in the last 30 years.
95. Many snack foods have increased in size by 50% in the last three decades.
96. About 60% of the body is made of water.
97. Sugar cane is native to New Guinea.
98. Happy people live 19% longer than unhappy people.
99. Married people are happier than anyone else.
100. Your mouth produces about 1.5 litres of saliva each day.
101. A 'rumbling tummy' is actually air moving along the intestines.
102. A human eats 1.5 kg of food each day, An elephant eats 150 kg a day.
103. A human drinks about 2 litres a day, an elephant 225 litres.
104. The human body does not contain all naturally occurring elements.
105. Flamingos and salmon are pink due to carotenoids in their diet.
106. Tank-driving soldiers are superstitious of apricots.
107. Bananas start life straight and bend as they grow.
108. The kiwifruit is native to southern China.
109. Caribbean Indians use pineapples to symbolize friendship and hospitality.
110. Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
111. Carrots originated in Afghanistan.
112. Legumes are fruits with a pod surrounding the peas.
113. We can taste sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami (meaty) flavours.
114. The average person produces 1500 ml of gas each day.
115. 64% of our taste buds are lost between the age of 30 and 80 years.
116. 65 - A square technically has five sides (also labeled as 116 - Suggesting a new release of facts since 2008) - Hippo's drink as much as 250 Litres of water in any given 24 hour period.
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119. Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food.
120. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
121. An owl has three eyelids.
122. There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica or Greenland.
123. It takes a sloth up to six days to digest the food it eats.
124. Sheep can detect other sheep faces like humans do. They can remember up to 50 sheep faces.
125. No one knows who designed the first American flag.
126. When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp.
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128. No one knows who designed the first American flag.
129. Rain contains vitamin B12.
130. Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.
131. The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
132. Peanut butter is an efective way to remove chewing gum from hair and clothes.
133. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
134. The sun srinks 152cm ever hour.
135. Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
136. There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
137. An olive tree can live up 1500 years.
138. An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.
139. On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
140. On average, right handed people live 9 years longer than their left handed couterparts.
141. The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.
142. The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
143. The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3 inch nail.
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145. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
146. The average person laughs about 15 times a day
147. The average person's scalp has 100,000 hairs.
148. The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
149. The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
150. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
151. Lightning strikes men about seven times more than it does women.
152. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
153. Giraffes are the only animals born with horns.
154. Teeth are the only parts of the human body that cannot repair themselves.
155. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
156. The only country in the world that has a bill of rights for cows is India.
157. Tequila is made from the root of the blue agave cactus.
158. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
159. 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
160. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
161. Early Romans used to use pocupine quills as toothpicks.
162. Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
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164. Only female bees work.
165. You mostly breathe from one nostril at a time.
166. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
167. Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
168. Golfers use an estimated $800 million worth of golf balls annually.
169. A cucumber is 96% water
170. The plant life in the oceans make up about 85% of all the greenery on the Earth.
171. A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
172. A speleologist studies caves.
173. No word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver of purple.
174. Rhythms is the longest english word without any vowels.
175. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
176. Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
177. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
178. 27% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.
179. About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
180. Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
181. An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in their car in a lifetime.
182. In twins, there is a great chance that one will be left handed.
183. Ants don't sleep.
184. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
185. Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irrates their feet.
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188. A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
189. Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off.
190. Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of the day.
191. Cats cannot taste sweet things.
192. The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.
193. Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
194. Vodka is Russian for little water.
195. Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk!
196. Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
197. A sneeze can travel as fast as 161kms per hour.
198. If you cut off a snail's eye, it will grow back a new one.
199. The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.
200. The most productive day of the work week is Tuesday.
201. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
202. Hyenas regularly eat the feces of other animals.
203. In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
204. Most people that read the word 'yawning' will yawn!
205. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport
206. On some Carribean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
207. Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
208. Milk is heavier than cream.
209. Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
210. The average house fly lives only two weeks.
211. Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
212. Eskimos do not have a common writen language.
213. The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world.
214. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
215. A snail can sleep for three years.
216. The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
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218. Rats can't vomit, that’s why rat poison works.
219. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
220. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
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222. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
223. An adult giraffe's tongue is 43cm long.
224. It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
225. If your stomach didn’t produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks it would digest itself.
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227. Mushrooms are more closely related to humans and animals than other plants!
228. Pearls melt in vinegar.
229. If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
230. You have no sense of smell when you are sleeping.
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232. Mosquitos prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.
233. Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
234. Bluebirds cannot see the colour blue.
235. Babies are born without knee caps.
236. Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
237. The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
238. The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
239. A moth has no stomach.
240. Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
241. One out of 20 people have an extra rib