Fun Science Facts You Didn't Know...

Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.

There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Human Body Facts..

 The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

 Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

 The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

 The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.

 It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

 The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

 The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

 Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

 When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

 Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

 Children grow faster in the springtime.

 It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

Did You Know Facts - Money

The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.

If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.

Excessive use of credit is cited as a major cause of non-business bankruptcy, second only to unemployment.

Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount onChristmas gifts.

If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world.

In 1990, the word "recession" appeared in 1,583 articles in The Wall Street Journal.

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.

80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.