Great Facts Around The World

During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 times Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls Dieting can cause bad breath since less saliva is produced which leads to dry mouth At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches When an orange is shown in any of the Godfather movies, this means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur. Soil that is heated by geysers is now making it possible to produce bananas in Iceland Chameleon is derived from the Greek, meaning little lion. The name Aspirin was invented from A in acetyl chloride, The spir comes from the spiraea ulmaria which is the plant that they got the salicylic acid from, and the in was used because back then it was popular to end the name of medicine with in. About 30% of Canadians rely on getting their water from the ground for their domestic use The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of gray There is a town in Norway called Hell Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runway to scare birds away The first German car to be built solely outside Germany is BMW Z3. The China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie Free Willy) from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998 Hippos can live up to 40 years in the wild The windiest place in the world is Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA. The highest wind was on April 12, 1934 when it reached 231 mph.

The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919 Corn Flakes were invented after Will Keith Kellogg and his brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg set about developing a nutritious cereal for the patients of health resort in 1890 The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations Huge Moore, the inventor of Dixie cups got the idea for the name from a neighboring factory, the Dixie Doll Company The turkey was once nominated to be the official bird of the United States In 1958 the United States sent three mice into space named, Mia, Laska and Benji On average, Americans spend five times more of their time in their cars than they do on vacation