Hello! Here are the most bizzare and out of the world facts! The winning word at the 1940 National Spelling Bee was "therapy." The phrase "goody two shoes" comes from a fable written in 1766 by Oliver Goldsmith about a poor little girl who could only afford one shoe. In what countries are people most likely to help a stranger? In a 2010 survey, Liberia and Sierra Leone were #1 and #2. The tallest giraffe of today is less than one-third the height of the tallest dinosaur from the past. Because of the angle at which its esophagus enters its stomach, the horse is physically unable to vomit. Chocolate chip cookies were made by mistake when the chocolate in the cookie did not melt properly. Since 1950, Georgia has flown four different state flags. The design was changed in 1956, in 2001, and again in 2003. Before Pixar settled on Toy Story, other names suggested include Made in Taiwan, Moving Buddies, and Toyz in the Hood. The octopus is the most intelligent animal in the world that does not have a backbone. Studies have shown they can solve fairly complex problems and are considered to have approximately the same intelligence level as a dog. Elsa, from the movie Frozen, has about 400,000 Hairs while an average human has only 100,000. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them. You were born with 300 bones; by the time you are an adult you will have 206. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50 thousand English words. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it. The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of Football. Instead of a normal football they use a human skull. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colourant wasn't added. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their head cut off. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. ( I dare you! Give it a try!) Of all the words in the English language the word "set" has the most definitions. It is against the law to burp or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. Earth is the only planet not named after a God. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3000 miles. The silkworm consumes 86000 times its own weight in 56 days. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers. A colony of 5 hundred bats can eat approximately 250 thousand insects in an hour. The average American spends about a year and a a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. 11% of the world is left-handed. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why.
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