Besides how cute she sucks on her thumb (or all of her entire left hand), how much she farts (and at impeccable times too... like right at your open hand?), that she can keep getting cuter with every tiny laugh and squeals of delight, I have come to discover these much of information about the world:
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
- Swedish people drink more coffee than any other race in the world (seriously?)
- Almonds are a member of the peach family
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
- There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas
- On average, there are eight peas in a pod
- Rice is the main food consumed for half the people worldwide
- The low rumbling of distant thunder is called "brontide"
- The fastest sneeze recorded was clocked at 166.7km an hour
- Barbie got her first car in 1962
- about a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it
- Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas
- Every person has a unique tongue print
- Liquorice can raise your blood pressure
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
- There are more chickens than people in the world
- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
- Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th"
- Because of the rotation of the Earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown West
- Cats can hear ultrasound
- It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes (not me!)
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
- 214 crates were used to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885
- The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat (but why do we want to do that?!)
- The starfish has five limbs and can regrow four of them, as long as its central body is not harmed
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
- A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks
- A 55kg crocodile exerts a force of approximately 700kg between its jaws
- 26 minutes of slow dancing will burn about 420 kilojoules
- An average snail moves at a rate of 58cm per hour
- Vintage port takes 40 years to reach maturity
- Around four billion litres of petroleum is consumed throughout the world each day
- Blype is the name given to skin that peels off after sunburn
- People do not get sick from cold weather, it's from being indoors a lot more
- Chickens will not walk on ice
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
- Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple
- Prior to the 1930s, diamond rings were rarely given as engagement rings
- An estimated 90% of the world's fresh water is located in Antartica
- In the 1800s, pink was supposed to be a baby boy's colour
- The word "dictionary" was not included in the first dictionary
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
- The film "Titanic" costs more than the actual Titanic
- The largest traffic jam ever was 177 kilometres long
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
- To see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun
- Children grow faster during spring
- A Rubik's Cube has 4,325,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions
- Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammals (need to check on my National Geographic first on this one...)
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
- Madonna is related to both Gwen Stefani and Celine Dion (and I think Lady Gaga too?)
- The toothbrush was invented in 1498
- The first hair dryer was powered by diesel fuel
- The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie"
- Koalas are excellent swimmers
- The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins (poor bastards!)
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
- Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s
- In the last 4,000 years no new animals have been domesticated
- Seaweed is used to thicken ice cream
- More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from public libraries
- On average, a four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day (hmmm...)
- The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
- Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth
- The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps
- If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all
- Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump
- Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons
- Slugs have four noses
- Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
- Camel's milk does not curdle
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
- Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook
- The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body
- Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges
- A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations
- The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the Kiwi
- The average person spends two years on the phone in his or her lifetime
- August has the highest percentage of births
- Google is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
- There are one million ants to every human in the world
- Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open
- Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves
- A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet
- The largest pumpkin ever grown recorded a weight of 482kg
- A lungfish can live out of water in suspended animation for three years
- Proportionately, Earth's atmosphere is thinner than the skin of an apple
- Road Runner has only been caught by Wile E. Coyote once, on 21 May 1980
- Bananas grow on plants that are giant herbs, and are related to the lily and orchid family
- The average weight loss of a racehorse during a race is between 6kg and 10kg
- The male fox will mate for life - if the female dies, then he remains single until death (oh bless!)
- A 500gm loaf of bread requires 2 tonnes of water to grow the wheat to produce it
- Only two animals can see completely behind themselves without turning their heads: the rabbit and the parrot (don't even try this at home)
- There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia
- A tightrope walker is called a funambulist (what did you say you do again?)
- Flounder swims sideways
- The human eye can, given enough time to adjust, see almost as well as an owl's
- The rush of air produced by a cough can approach 1,000km an hour
- Greyhounds eyesight is the best of any breed of dog
- In the time it takes to read this sentence, 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced; and
- It takes a tonne of ore to produce one gold wedding ring!
