A Boeing 747 airliner
holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
A broken clock is always right twice a
day.
A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
A car traveling 100 mph would take
more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27
women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
A chicken will lay bigger and
stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak
once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head
cut off - it dies from starvation!
A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
A comet's tail always points away
from the sun.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware
out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
A cow
gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A cubic yard
of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen
weeks!
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
A fully
loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch
tongue!
A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of geese on
the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of officers is
called a mess.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of
the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or softboiled egg will
not.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
A jellyfish is 95
percent water!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I
will be there in a jiffy.
A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.
A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute
under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.