Weird but True - Outrageous Facts!!!

1. Lily pads can grow to be wider than a king-size bed.      
2. Nepal is the only country in the world that doesn't have a rectangular flag.
3. Grass looks greener to girls than it does to boys.
4. The average hug lasts three seconds.
5. The planet Uranus was almost named George.
6. The moon can look red during a lunar eclipse.
7. Some chickens are born half male, half female.
8. Crabs are distant relatives of spiders.
9. There's a fruit named "stinking toe".
10. Archaeologists discovered a 4000-year-old bowl of noodles in China.
11. Early clocks had only one hand - or no hands at all!!
12. National Rubber Ducky Day takes place each year on January 13.
13. At a fashion show in Shanghai, China, models wore dresses, hats, and even wigs made of chocolate.
14. The ghost ant can turn the colour of certain foods it eats.
15. Two boys launched a Lego man to the edge of space with a weather balloon.
16. Elephant calves suck on their trunks, just as human babies suck on their thumbs.
17. The South Pole is colder than the North Pole.
18. Seahorses do not have stomachs.
19. Most people blink more than 14,000 times a day.
20. An astronaut once lost a spatula in space.
21. A woodpecker can peck a tree up to 30 times a second.
22. Every 24 hours, your blood travels about 4 miles through your body.
23. Argentina's president works in a building known as the Pink House.
24. Tasmanian devils may challenge enemies by sneezing.
25. A baseball stadium in Texas sold hotdogs that were longer than two iPads.
26. A pineapple is actually made up of a bunch of berries.
27. The village Tilt Cove in Newfoundland, Canada has a population of 5!
28. Turtles  the size of small cars roamed Earth 60 million years ago.
29. Outside, you are rarely more than 6 feet away from a spider.
30. Odonophobia is the fear of teeth.
31. Certain lizards have green blood.
32. At a hotel in Berlin, Germany, you can sleep in a coffin.
33. A town in Missouri is called Frankenstein.
34. In England, black cats are considered good luck!
35. Squirrels sweat through their feet.
36. There are no coffee shops in a town called Hot Coffee, Mississippi.
37. Water blown out of a blue whale's spout can shoot three stories high.
38. Your brain can hold 100 times more information than a computer.
39. In ancient Egypt, only ROYALTY were allowed to eat mushrooms.
40. A seed can blow across the ocean and sprout on another continent.
41. Doodling can help you concentrate.
42. Swiftlet birds' nests are made entirely from saliva.
43. Some cows make best friends with other cattle in their herd.
44. Walking uses 200 muscles!
45. The odds of getting struck by lightning in your lifetime is 1 in 10,000! 
46. When 40 people are in a room there's a 90 percent chance that 2 will have the same birthday.
47. A person is over 100 times more likely to die from a bee sting than win a MEGAMILLIONS LOTTERY.
48. You'd have to open 12,000 wild oysters to have a decent chance of finding a pearl.
49. A $25,000 chocolate sundae includes edible GOLD flakes, a GOLD and diamond bracelet, and an 18-carat GOLD spoon.
50. A GOLD-PLATED SUV has bullet-proof windows and 8 cameras on the outside - plus a price tag of more than a HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
51. You can buy insurance that covers alien abductions.
52. Fungus can grow out of a ZOMBIE ANT'S head.
53. A man wrote an entire novel without using the  letter  e.
54. People buy  more ice cream on Sunday than on any other day of the week.
55. It takes about 50 licks to finish a scoop of ice cream.
56. You can get pizza-flavoured ice cream in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
57. The Vesta asteroid has a mountain more than twice the size of Mount Everest.
58. The RAINBOW boa has prism-like scales that turn light into rainbows when it bounces off the snake.
59. Some TARANTULAS are BLUE.
60. The coldest temperature ever officially recorded was -89.2 degrees Celsius.

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