Amazing Facts

• The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
• Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
• A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries
• Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails
• Ukrainian people celebrate Christmas on January 7th, which is the Orthodox Christmas Day
• Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That is the opposite of the norm
• People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."
• The water inside of a coconut is identical to human blood plasma. Many lives in third world countries have been saved from coconut water fed through an IV
• Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry
• Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because there was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
• India has a Bill of Rights for cows
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
• The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years
• In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death
• An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet
• Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before
• 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine
• The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male
• Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost."
• There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland
• Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips
• Mosquitoes have teeth
• The word Spain means "the land of rabbits."
• A leech has 32 brains
• The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
• Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels
• Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers