Fascinating Facts

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Thought I'd share 10 fascinating facts with you.


1. French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

2. In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.

3. During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

4. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

5 At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.

6. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

7. A snail can sleep for three years.

8. The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

9. While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

10. Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

Got any fascinating facts you'd like to share?

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The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped.
There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.
The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.