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Stupid Facts

• The world's fastest land animal is the cheetah, reaching speeds of 60-70 mph (110 km/hr).

• The fastest animal on earth is the peregrine falcon clocked at over 180 mph (290 km/hr).

• A regular hen's egg has about 7,000 tiny pores in its shell.

• Red blood cells do not contain a nucleus.
  (see Human Blood)

• There are approximately 100,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body.
  (See Large Number Names)

• A single molecule of human DNA could stretch to over 3 feet (.9 m) long.

• In tennis, zero points is referred to as love, which is possibly derived from the French word for egg, l'oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero.
  (See Wimbledon winners)

• No U.S. President has had brown eyes.
  (See US Presidents)

• One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

• The only part of the human body that cannot develop cancer is the lens of the eye.

• The only areas of the human exterior that do not sweat are the nailbeds, eardrums, the bulbous end of the penis, and part of the lips.

• During pregnancy, the uterus can increase up to 200 times it normal volume.

• Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep.
  (see Golf)

• The human stomach can stretch 50 times larger than its normal size and hold 4.5 quarts (4.25 L).

• A wainwright is someone who fixes wagons.

• Female hyenas have a pseudo penis.

• Strudel comes from a German word for whirlpool.

• The word windfall comes from an old English law prohibiting the cutting down of the King's trees, so the only firewood commoners could gather is what the wind blew down.

• The flower Rafflesia Arnoldi can measure up to three feet (.9 m) across and weigh as much as 15 pounds (6.8 kg).

• In the year 2160, there will be two lunar eclipses and five solar eclipses.
  (see Phases of the moon)

• All plant life contains calcium, sulfur, magnesium, carbon dioxide, phosphorus, and other trace elements.
  (see Table of Elements)

• The sun is about 330,000 time the mass of the Earth.
  (see Solar System)

• Centipedes don't have 100 legs.

• Orchids are named from the Greek word for testicles (orchis) because of the resemblance of their bulbs to a man's testes.

• The largest pearl ever found weighed 14 pounds (6.4 kg).

• Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, but was allergic to the silver body paint.

• Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world at 3,212 feet (979 meters).

• The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is nearly 3,700 miles (5,955 kilometers).

• The longest river is the Nile River in Africa at 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long.

• Lloro, Colombia averages 523.6 inches (1,323 cm) of rainfall a year.

• 97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans.

• The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world.

• The total water supply of the world is 326,000,000 cubic miles (1 cubic mile of water equals more than 1,000,000,000,000 gallons).
  (see Large Numbers)

• Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador supports the only glacier on the equator.

• The creosote bush can live for thousands of years.

• There were 132,432,044 automobiles registered in the United States in 1999.

• Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general and appeared on the first 5 cent stamp issued in 1847.