Worlds Strangest Facts

The sun is 330,000 times the size of earth!

The human body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

On average a person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

On average a person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

Coca-cola was originally a green drink.

A Hummingbird can fly backwards.

Jupiter is so big that you can fit all the other planets inside of it.

The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.

A cockroach can survive nine days without its head before it starves to death.

It takes 2,380 orange slices to charge up an iPhone.

The seven continents of the world all end with the same letter with which they start.

Bees are currently being trained to sniff out explosives at airports.

Ice cream contains seaweed.

In 1987 American Airlines saved $440,000 by removing an olive from each salad they served in first class.

The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than an elephant.

If a bee gets stuck in a film canister for two hours, it goes blind and sheds its body weight in honey.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus, which rotates clockwise.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus, which rotates clockwise.

People on average produce 1.43 pints in sweat per day.

 Bamboo is capable of growing 3 ft in 24 hours…

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5 Responses to “Worlds Strangest Facts”

  1. Danielle Says:
    August 8th, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    I did not know venus turned clockwise while the rest turned anti clock wise. thats good to know

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  2. G6 Says:
    November 18th, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    now i know how to get honey from beez thats easyer and less safe than sticking my hand in a bee hive ._.

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  3. G6 Says:
    November 18th, 2010 at 11:07 pm

    more safe…. fail

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  4. Georgia Says:
    December 25th, 2010 at 3:24 am

    bees can’t sniff ^O^

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  5. Bob never Says:
    April 19th, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    Hooray! I really really needed to know just how long the average person spends in front of a traffic light. That was really a GREAT help.

    Oh, wait:
    It wasn’t.

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