Category: Fun Fact Friday!

-If you fell to the center of the Earth, it would take around 38 minutes

-“Q” the letter, is not in any American state’s name

-Mosquitoes kill 1 million people per year, and are the deadliest animal in the world

-Anteaters can consume 35,000 ants in a single day

-Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times in a second

-Some types of jellyfish are immortal

-Cotton candy was originally named fairy floss

-A swordfish can swim as fast as a cheetah can run

-Giraffes sleep for less than 2 hours a day

-A butterfly weighs less than a paper clip

-Eighty percent of all living things on earth are insects

-Throughout the world, about 1 million plastic bags are used every minute

-The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world!

-Mcdonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli!

-The longest English word is 189,819 letters long!

-The Eiffel Tower is 15cm taller during the summer!

-Human teeth are the only part of the body that can’t heal its self!

-Venus is the only planet that spins clockwise!

-The only flying mammal is a bat!

-The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is thought to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language!

-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear!

-In our lifetime we spend a year on the toilet

-In space Astronauts grow taller

-It is impossible to lick your own elbow

-The famous Barbie doll’s full real name is, Barbara Millicent Roberts

-The oldest human to have ever lived, was a French female named Jeanne Louise Calment. She was 122 years old when she died in 1997

-Mike the chicken once lived for a record of 18 months without a head

– Yawning can be contagious

-Peru has over 3,000 different kinds of potatoes

– The scientific name for chocolate *Theobroma cacao means “food of the gods”