Did you know? 10 True Intriguing Facts
Don't know what to say? Having trouble striking up a conversation? At a loss for words. Here are some great ways to draw some attention to yourself, get the conversation started up again, or just a way to maybe impress someone with your knowledge.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.
- Human teeth are the only part of the body that can’t heal themselves.
- Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig.
- Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. This is due to the population of the species.
- Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. This is because during development (umbilical cord length, position in the womb, and the rate of finger growth) impact your fingerprint.
- Once there was a chicken that lived for 18 months without a head. Mike -the chicken was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived due to his jugular vein and brain stem were left mostly intact, so that just enough brain function remained for survival
- Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. It's true-Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
- which need to come up for air every 10 minutes, but by slowing their heart rate, sloths can hold their breath for around 40 minutes!
- Honey never spoils. Archaeologists discovered that pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs are over 3,000 years old and still edible.
- You can’t hum while holding your nose.- It's true. Go ahead, Try it-You'll find that you can't do it.
