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1. alkaloid called Theobromine also known as Xantheose and that’s the active ingredient that’s bad for the dog. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re awesome!
2. For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius.
3. The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India.
4. It is a fact that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. Like other 1,000+ year old games, it would have been played differently than todays rules. It’s thought that todays rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D.
5. In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service has an employees handbook for the collections division unit. Here’s the interesting part, in it are instructions which guide employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war. Kinda scary!
6. If you are severely scared of going to the dentist or having dental work, you may actually have a phobia called odontophobia.
7. Almonds are members of the rose flower family or rosaceae family. The peach is also a member of the rose family.
8. The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and died at the young age of 17.
9. The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs.
10. Jupiter is the largest planet in the earths solar system. I should’ve known that one.
11. Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are. Useless, Hahaha.
12. Did you know the first bullet proof vest and windshield wiper blades were both invented by women? Cool!
13. Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster. Weird!
14. Only humans cry because of feelings. Awesome!
15. Mohammad is the most common birth name in the world. There’s only 51 moreinteresting facts on this page.
16. It takes about 7 minutes for the average person to fall asleep. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re amazing!
17. You can give change for a dollar in 293 different coin variations. Good luck!
18. About 1 out of every 2 million people will die by falling out of bed. Be careful, not funny. Most who will die this way are either very young children or elderly people.
19. The construction on the Parisian Notre Dame Cathedral began in 1015 A.D and it took over 400 years to complete, It was completed in 1439 A.D. It’s a well known historic Roman catholic church in Paris.
20. If the human stomach doesn’t produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks it will totally digest it’s self. Weird!
21. 75% of the world’s population wash themselves in the shower from the top to the bottom. Head first, feet last people.