Some Curious facts

The heart is a pump that can shoot blood 10 meters up in the air.

The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.

The strongest muscle we have in our body is the tongue.

According to statistics, people are more afraid of a mosquito bite that death.

All bears are left-handed.

Crocodiles cannot take out their tongue out of their mouth.

Butterflies can taste objects from their feet not from their mouth.

A cockroach with its head cut off, can survive for 9 days – then it dies of hunger.

Of all the animals, only humans and dolphins make love just for pleasure.

No one can ever sneeze with eyes open.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

Thomas Edison, who invented the light-bulb, was afraid of the dark.

The word ‘cemetery’ comes from the Greek ‘koimiterion’ which means dormitory, a place where we sleep.

Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. 

The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old. Average is 10-15 years.

The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old. Average age is 20 years.

Your nails grow faster in hot summer. 

The earth is 4,540,000,000 years old (4 and a half billion).