Interesting Facts 3/8

1. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

2. A snail can sleep for three years.

3. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

4. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

5. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink.

6, The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

7. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

8. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

9. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

10. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

11. The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

12. The average number of people airborne over the U.S.in any given hour:
61,000.

13. There is a city called Rome in every continent.

14. Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

15. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

16. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

17. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

18. President Richard Nixon was an avid weightlifter and could bench press 220 lbs.

19. No President has been an only child.

20. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.