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Who Knew? Two

Published by Lord in Random
November 30, 2008

Odd facts continued.

a major league baseball is only used for 5-7 pitches before it is trashed

those tiny colorful frogs, poision arrow frogs, have enough venom to kill 2200 people

when you are born you have 300 bones but by adulthood you have lost 94, leaving you with only 206!

“the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog” – that sentence uses every letter in the alphabet

flies and dragonflies live for only 24 hours, can we say mate quickly!?!

a lion’s roar is so loud you can hear it up to five miles away, start running now!

a rhino horn is actually very compacted hair

Albert Brooks was very well known, though you may know him as Albert Einstein

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button, it was sewed up when he had surgery

an ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain

when you give a toast, according to ancient tradition you are warding away the devil by clinking your cup

in olden times one thought it was lucky to flip a coin and the king land up, thus where heads is lucky came from

when someone sneezes you say bless you so that person will not become possessed by an evil spirit

blonde beards grow faster than darker ones

Brazil got its name from the nut, not vice versa

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