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1. 75% of the world’s population wash themselves in the shower from the top to the bottom. Head first, feet last people.
2. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. A leap year has 31,622,400 seconds. Amazing!
3. Approximately one fifth of all the publications from Japan are comic books.
4. Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.
5. Four out of five people over 100 years old are women. Interesting!
6. The price of the Titanic cost about $7 million to build and the price of the Titanic movie was about $200 million to make. Unbelievable!
7. It’s true! There is only one metal that’s in liquid form at room temperature and that’s Mercury.
8. When water freezes it expands by 10%.
9. The only animal with four knees is the elephant.
10. Birth control pills designed for humans will also work for a gorilla. Now that’s Strange!
11. If you have a deep genuine fear of the number 13, you may have Paraskevidekatriaphobia also called Friggatriskaidekaphobia or Triskaidekaphobia.
12. A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago. Awesome!
13. Stopping a supertanker which is fully loaded and travels at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.
14. A cat’s ear has a total of thirty two muscles.
15. The average person laughs 15 times per day. Hahaha!
16. The eye of an ostrich is larger than it’s brain.
17. A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants. Incredible!
18. Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight.
19. A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day. Huh!
20. Did you know,  you cannot fold a 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Try it! The MythBusters guys on the Discovery channel folded a piece of paper more than 7 times but it was a really large sheet of paper.
21. Oh no, there’s only 25 more interesting facts to go on this page.
22. More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.