Strange but true

A few facts you may not have known:

µ Slugs have four noses

µ  A jellyfish is 95% water

µ  A toothpick is the object most choked on by Americans

µ  Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings

µ  The sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur

µ  Nose prints are used to identify dogs - just like a human's fingerprints

µ  The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times

µ  Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

µ  Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

µ  Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours

µ  Earnest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, which contains more than 50,000 words - none of them with the letter E

µ  The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump

µ  Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

µ  The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tonnes

µ  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

µ  The original name for butterfly was flutterby

µ  Your ribs move about 5 million times a year - every time you breathe

µ  A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night

µ  If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion

µ  Lightening strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet

µ  You blink over 10,000,000 times a year

µ  A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

µ  The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

µ  There are more than 50,000 earthquakes around the world every year

µ  More monopoly money is printed in a year than real money printed throughout the world

µ  During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food - the weight of about 6 elephants

µ  You're born with 300 bones - but adults have only 206

µ  The average person has more than 1,460 dreams a year

µ  In space, astronauts cannot cry properly - because there is no gravity, tears can’t flow down their faces

µ  The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out

µ  A sneeze travels at more than 100 mph

µ  There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones

µ  Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows

µ  Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails

µ  The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

µ  Dolphins sleep with one eye open

µ  Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

µ  Owls are the only birds to see blue