B2 DatabasePlace - 200 things you never knew!

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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