taste newses.

*The sloth (a mammal)
moves so slowly that
green algae can grow
undisturbed on its fur!

*Cat urine glows under
a black-light!

*The world's termites
outweigh the world's
humans 10 to 1!

*The electric chair was
invented by a dentist!

*Windmills always turn
counter-clockwise. Except
for the windmills in
Ireland!

*A hedgehog's heart
beats 300 times a minute
on average!

*Camels have three
eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing
sand!

*The placement of a
donkey's eyes in its head
enables it to see all four
feet at all times!

*Human teeth are
almost as hard as rocks!

*A mole can dig a
tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night!

*Ancient Egyptians slept
on pillows made of stone!

*A hippo can open its
mouth wide enough to fit
a 4 foot tall child inside!

*A quarter has 119
grooves on its edge, a
dime has one less groove!

*Hummingbirds can
weigh less than a
penny!!

*Until 1796, there was a
state in the United States
called Franklin. Today it's
known as Tennessee!

*The Earth weighs
around
6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000
tons (5,940 billion billion
metric tons)!

*A cockroach can live
several weeks with its
head cut off - it dies from
starvation!

*Every time you lick a
stamp, you're consuming
1/10 of a calorie!

*The average person
has over 1,460 dreams a
year!

*It's against the law to
pawn your dentures in Las
Vegas!

*One in every 4
Americans has appeared
on television!

*The average American/
Canadian will eat about
11.9 pounds of cereal per
year!

*It's against the law to
burp, or sneeze in a
certain church in Omaha,
Nebraska!

*you're born with 300
bones, but when you get
to be an adult, you only
have 206!

*Human thigh bones
are stronger than
concrete!

*Over 10,000 birds a
year die from smashing
into windows!

*The state of Florida is
bigger than England!

*There are more than
one million animal species
on Earth!

*In Natoma, Kansas, it's
illegal to throw knives at
men wearing striped suits
It was once against the
law to have a pet dog in a
city in Iceland!

*Your heart beats over
100,000 times a day!

*Thomas Edison,
lightbulb inventor, was
afraid of the dark!