Facts that you most likely didn’t know....

The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother’s Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.

Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.

Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).

The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.

The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.

Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.

One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.

Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

The tool doctors wrap around a patient’s arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

“Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.

A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.

The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Starfish have no brains.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.

The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.