- Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.

Getting struck by lightening heats skin

to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

That's hotter than the surface of the sun.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters

which are A, E, O, I, U,

H, K, ,L, M, N, P and W.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Hummingbirds are the only animals

that can fly backwards.

A flamingo can only eat with its head upside-down.

The lighter was invented 10 years before the match was.

It's physically impossible for a pig

to look up at the sky.

The very first internet domain name

to ever be registered was symbolics.com

on March 15, 1985 and still exists today.

Go try it.

In a study by the University of Chicago in 1915,

it was concluded that the easiest color

to spot at a distance is the color yellow

which is also why that's the most popular color

for taxicabs.

The largest employer in the world

is the US Department of Defense

which employs over three million people.

The 120-year-old song Happy Birthday

is actually copyrighted and it's owned

by Warner/Chappell Music.

The company still insists that nobody

can sing it without first paying them royalties.

So basically, you've been breaking the law

at every birthday you've ever been to.

Humans are born with 350 bones in their body.

But when a person reaches adulthood,

we only have 206.

This is because our bones fuse together

as the body grows and develops.

There are 158 verses in the Greek national anthem,

making it the longest national anthem in the world.

To put that into perspective,

the Canadian and American national anthems

both only have four verses each.

The Maldive coconut is the largest seed in the world.

Apple seeds actually contain a cyanide compound.

In dirt soil, a mole can dig a tunnel 350 feet long

in just one night.

It is impossible to tickle yourself.

This is because your cerebellum warns

the rest of your brain that you're about to tickle yourself,

so it ignores the resulting sensation.

The typical lead pencil can draw a line

that is 35 miles long.

Astronauts get taller in space due to the lack of gravity.

The total surface area of human lungs

is 750 square feet.

That's roughly the same area as one side of a tennis court.

Of all the animals on Earth,

the mosquito has contributed to more deaths

than any other animal.

All elephants walk on their tiptoes.

This is because the back part of their foot

is made up of all fat and no bone.

Hawaii has the only royal palace

in the United States still used as an official residence

by a reigning monarch.

The strongest muscle in the human body

proportional to its size is the tongue.

An octopus has three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.

If the population of China walked by you single file,

the line would never end due to the rate of reproduction.

The hair on a polar bear is actually not white, but clear.

They reflect light which makes them appear to be white.

A chameleon can move its eyes

in two directions at the same time.

England is smaller than the state of Florida

by over 15,000 square miles.

In case you never noticed,

the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.

The world's largest yacht has 94,000 horsepower,

and is 590 feet long which is about the length

of two football fields.

Humans and giraffes both only have seven vertebrate

in their necks which is surprising

considering giraffe necks are so much bigger.

Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

In fact, it's quite low in fat and it's actually

good for your digestion.

Disneyland does not sell chewing gum.

This is because Walt Disney did not

want guest inconvenienced by stepping on gum

that they purchased at the park.

A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.

Apples, peaches, plums, strawberries,

raspberries, cherries and almonds

all belong to the rose family.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

Sharks lose over 30,000 teeth in their lifetime.

A day on the planet Mercury lasts approximately

as long as 59 days on Earth.

Whips make a cracking sound because

the tip actually moves faster than the speed of sound

creating a small sonic boom.

Hippo sweat is actually red,

and it contains a pigment that's a natural sunscreen.

A cockroach can live several weeks without its head.

Methane gases produced by cows

create just as much pollution as cars do.

Dolphins only sleep with half their brain at a time.

And thus, they're always half-conscious

otherwise they would drown.

In advertisements, the time displayed on a watch

or clock is almost always 10:10.

The majority of the dust in your house

is made up from your own dead skin.

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

The average person falls asleep

in only about seven minutes.

And finally, over 100 hours of video

is uploaded to YouTube every single minute.

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