Milk

A dairy cow can produce about 100'000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.

Stars

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth.

Old gum

A 5000 year old piece of chewing gum was found in finland.

Super-continent 2

Hawaii moves 3 inches closer to Japan each year. Someday all of the continents will join as one again, but except at the opposite side from when it was first a super-continent (Pangea)

Long nails

If you never cut or broke your fingernails, they would each grow to 6 feet long by the time your 75

On the run moon

The moon moves 1.5 inches away from earth every year.

Hairy Humans

Humans have about the same number of body hairs as chimpanzees.

Shark

Sharks have no bones

Fast eyes

Your eyes move about 80 times per second! Even when your keeping them still

Queen Margherita

Queen Margherita of Savoy ordered the first pizza delivery in 1889

Tropical poles

Palm trees grew at the north pole 55 million years ago, and the sahara dessert was once ice

Light as a fly

650 house flies weigh less than an ounce

Millionaires

There are more then 8,000,000 (eight million) millionaires alive today. Thats a lot of money.

Overdue book

The most overdue library book was 288 years late. That must've had a big fine!

Busy brain

Your brain can sometimes be more active when your asleep than when your awake

M n'Ms

M n'Ms were first made so that people could send chocolate to others in the military easily! And they were a success! 

Crisps!

Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds of crisps each year- thats more than 10 times the weight of Egypts great pyramids.

Diamonds

Some diamonds are more than a billion years old.

Tea please

The worlds most expensive tea bag had 280 diamonds on it and cost about $14,000! What is the point in that, it would still taste like tea and then afterwards your left with a soggy brown bag of diamonds, and would you even use it!
p.s, i'm not sure if this was the actual tea bag ->

Growing

If you kept growing as fast as an average baby, you would weigh 413,300 pounds by the age of 10!

Zeptosecond

A zeptosecond is one-billionth of a trillionth of a second.

Bees

Only female bees can sting

Muddy pigs

You'll be suprised to know that a lot of pigs don't actually like mud! One lady put wellington bots from a doll on her pig  when she noticed it wouldn't go near the stuff.

Eiffel Tower

On sunny days, the eiffel tower leans slightly towards its shadow. It's to do with the expansion of the metal from the heat of the sun on one side of the tower.

But don't worry, it's not going to fall over anytime soon.

Parachutes

Parachutes were invented before aeroplanes. What were they planning to do with them?

Boom!

Male kangaroos are called boomers

BOOM!

Caffeine...D:

Too much caffeine can cause a feeling of impending doom. On the other hand, for me any caffeine consumption whatsoever, will lead to hysterical laughing fits at 3 in the morning and making dozens of sandwiches...    

Snow

Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.

3 cent bill

America once issued a three cent bill.

Wrinkled grip

Your fingers wrinkle up when your in the water for a long time because the wrinkled  prune-like impression is supposed to give you a good grip under water. :)

A Daily Journey

The earth travels about 1.6 million miles every day!

Tall telephone

The first ever telephone answering machine was 3ft tall!!

Down or up?

There is a waterfall in hawaii that sometimes goes upwards!!

Fingerprints

Koalas and humans have similar fingerprints., and speaking of fingerprints, your tongue print is more unique.

Cycle to the moon?

It would take 3 years non-stop pedaling to cycle to the moon.

Just our luck!

Unfortunately for both Soapsie and I, red headed people are more prone to skin cancer even without a lot of sun exposure. :o

Unlikely cousins!

Johnny Depp and Queen Elizabeth are 20th cousins!

Facts!

This blog is going to be full of random, most likely useless facts like 1 in every 20 people have an extra rib and pinapples are good pain relievers! :)