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When you sneeze, snot comes out at 100mph.

Every time you hit your head, you lose over 1000 brain cells.

Approx. 7 people die per year from a vending machine falling on them.

Birds poo about 50 times a day.

Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.

You spend about 23 years asleep in a 70 year life.

In England, there are more chickens than humans.

A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

Bless you' when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open, they can pop out.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipsticks contains fish scales.

We spend about 3 years of our lives on the toilet.

Mucophagy is the medical term for eating snot.

White Transit vans cost less than the same van would if it was a different colour.

top of Mount Everest was once at the bottom of the sea.

On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than left-handed people.

Lions can mate over 50 times a day.

40% of McDonalds' profits come from the sale of Happy Meals.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Some Ribbon Worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

The average human poo weighs around 250 grams.

After kissing someone, their saliva stays in your mouth for 2 to 3 days.

If you cut a starfish into five pieces, each piece will grow into an entirely new starfish.

A cockroach can survive for 9 days without its head.

Hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

The Titanic was running at 22knots when it hit the ice berg.

No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times.

In Wales there are more sheep than humans.

4,000 people a year are attacked by rabbits.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats are the only animals that can hold their tails completely vertical.

Once comfortable, it takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.

Two rats can produce over one million baby rats in 18 months.

If you drive, you spend two weeks of your life at traffic lights.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

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

Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

About on third of the dust in your Hover is dead skin.

Dolphins sleep with 1 eye open.

Cats have the largest eyes of any mammal, relative to their size.

It takes 7 years for a person to digest chewing gum, but if you eat it often enough, it acts as a laxative and the gum gets flushed out straight away.

Spiders have transparent blood.

14% of computer games have monkeys in them.

There are 336 dimples on a regular golf ball.

Pneumonoultramicroscopics-ilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the Oxford English dictionary.

Men lose 40 hairs per day while women loose 70.

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.

50 Bibles are sold every minute.

A blue whale's heart only beats nine times per minute.

Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Mexico City sinks about 10 inches per year.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The substance nylon is so called because its inventor said it could stretch from New York to London - hence NY LON.

111,111,111 squared is 12345678987654321.

Bag-pipes were originally made from the liver of a dead sheep.

An Octopus has 3 hearts.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. First to go is your sight.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from flying into windows.

Five people die a year from choking on a peanut.

The longest fart was 15 minutes long.

Venus Flytrap can swallow an entire Cheese-burger!

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The slang word 'crap' came from T. Crapper, the man who invented the modern toilet.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

There is a place in Norway called "Hell".