16 Interesting Facts

The habit of saying / Cheers / while we clink our glasses before taking the first sip of a drink, originated in medieval times.

The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring, and found it 16 years later- growing on a carrot in her garden.

Hamsters run up to 8 miles at night on a wheel.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

There is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times.

Information in brain travels very fast at a speed of 268 miles per hour.

75% of brain is water. There dehydration can affect your attention and memory!

25 percent of bones in the human body are in the feet.

Our bodies contain .2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.

Birds in Cities use cigarette butts to build their nests to "Smoke Out" parasites!

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Smileys don’t have a nose.

Mount Everest was named after Welshman Sir George Everest from Gwernvale, Breconshire.