i was on facebook and joined the I LOVE RANDOM INTERESTING FACTS group. it's really ,as the title suggests, random and super amusing. i'll just post some here and bold the ones i find funny... well to me at least! haha enjoy laughing at the randomness of it!

Part one

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft

Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear

Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave( ahaha i have to try this out)

For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine

The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory

The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it

Human birth control pills work on gorillas

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply

Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day

Every three seconds, a new baby is born

Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him

Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.'

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts

Part two

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away

Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry

You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors

Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land

One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.

Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms (this i wanna see! haha)

'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

Muhammad is the most common name in the world

If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.

People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour

Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women

Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water

The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C

The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

Young children can entirely regrow lost fingertips above the top joint, including the bone, skin and nail!

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine

Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people

Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this

If you cut off a snail's eye, it will grow a new one

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (interesting... no wonder they rarely show mantises mating on documentaries)
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