1. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

2. Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet.

3. During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

4. The longest word in the English language, with all of the letters in alphabetical order is “Almost”.

5. Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

6. A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them.

7. There is 293 different ways to give back change on a dollar.

8. A giraffe’s heart weighs an incredible 24 pounds.

9. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

10. In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks. (more…)

I was browsing the internet when I happened upon a website full of random and interesting facts. I chose my favorite 10 and listed them below. Hope you learn something new to help when you end up on Jeopardy!

1. A Cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9 billion times per second.
2. A galactic year is 250 million earth years (the time it takes us to travel around the Milky Way)
3. A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
4. The African Baobab tree’s circumference can reach 180 feet. That means that if the trunk was hollow, 20 people would be able to fit in it!
5. At liftoff, U.S. space shuttles weigh about 4.5 million pounds.
6. Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
7. By weight, the sun is made up of 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements.
8. Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fill 10,000 standard computer disks (whatever standard means!)
9. Google receives more than 200 million search queries per day.
10. Every 25 miles, a car produces 1 pound of pollution.