20 strange and interesting things to know

in #life7 years ago

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1. Man breathes an average of 5 million times a year.
2. The months that begin on Sunday always have Friday on the 13th.
3. Man is born with 300 bones, but at maturity he has only 206.
4. An ordinary person spends 2 weeks of life waiting for the green light at the traffic light.
5. You need more calories to eat a piece of cabbage than cabbage itself.
6. By 2080, it is estimated that the world's population will reach 15 billion individuals.
7. Native American Indians named their children after the first thing they saw once they left the tent where the baby was born.
8. Some species of roach can live for a few weeks with their head cut.
9. It is impossible to sneeze openly
10. In 1386, in England, a pig was slaughtered by hanging as a punishment for killing a child.
11. If the stress of modern life had been removed, man would sleep about 10 hours a day.
12. One in five adults thinks that aliens are hiding among us disguised as humans.
13. Elephant is the only mammal who can not jump.
14. The language of each of us is different, just like fingerprints.
15. 11% of the world's population is clumsy.
16. The longest known flight of a hen lasted 13 seconds.
17. To produce one kilogram of honey, a bee should visit 2 million flowers.
18. Our planet is the only one that is not named after a god.
19. A colony of 500 bats can eat about 250,000 insects in an hour.
20. A broken watch shows the right time twice a day.

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que loco es como mi papa en la tarde

I don't know how much time I lost for green light.

Hello Luiza..... great post. I just resteemed it.

I'm on the lookout for some interesting bloggers I can follow as I'm passing time on this new beginning with Steemit.

#12. One in five adults thinks that aliens are hiding among us disguised as humans. Wow...didn't know the figures were that high. Have to look it up.

I'm new here and would love for you to come over and visit me. I won't bite!

Jen

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