Amazing Facts
How many peanuts are needed to make one jar of peanut butter?
540
These insects can survive for weeks without their heads?
Cockroaches
_____ travels about 12,000 miles through the body in one day.
Blood
What four-letter word can be read forward, backward and upside down?
noon
This ancient word was first used as a medical charm against malaria.
Abracadabra
These dentures made from a real human teeth became famous after the Battle of Waterloo.
Waterloo Teeth
African wild dogs use this unusual action to vote on when to begin a hunt.
Sneezing
Like fingerprints, these are unique to each person.
Tongue prints
Jimmy's mother had four children named Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and _______
Jimmy
Astronauts wear this personalized suit to protect themselves from temperatures as high as 250F and as low as -250F.
Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU)
These birds can fly more than 10,000 miles in about 46 days without landing.
Albatrosses
What part of the eye has no blood vessels and gets oxygen directly from the air?
Cornea
The more you take the more you leave behind.
Footsteps
These footprints could remain visible for 10–100 million years because there is no wind or rain to erase them.
Apollo Astronaut footprints on the Moon
Snails
The average human eye can distinguish about this many colors?
10 million
A man has a close shave before bed and wakes up with a full beard. How is this possible?
He lives in the Arctic Circle where the sun doesn't rise for months.
What is autophagy?
The natural process is activated during fasts and helps the body clean out damaged cells.
These animals can smell water from up to 12 miles away.
Elephants
During sleep this brain cleaning system helps flush out waste.
Glymphatic system
Four cars reach a four way stop at the same time and all go without crashing. How?
They all turned right.