20 Fun facts

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1)All babies are color blind when they are born
2)Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day
3)Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
4)From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet.
5)Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.
6)Cat urine glows under a black-light.
7)The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
8)A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour
9)Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
10)Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana
11)Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
12)Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
13)A rat can fall from a five story building without injury
14)A rat and a horse cannot vomit.
15)If you sneeze too hard,it may cause your chest to rupture. But if you hold back your sneeze by force,it may cause one of your blood vessels to break.
16)A lighter was invented earlier than a matchstick.
17)Right-handers live an average of 9 more years than left-handers.
18)Lice can jump over a distance 350 times longer than their bodies,equivalent to a human jumping over the length of a football stadium.
19)“Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick” is one of the hardest sentences to pronounce in the English language
20) A catapillar has over 2000 muscles.