Friday 6 January 2006

Random Facts 2

I found some more that I wanted to share:

  1. Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they are an ox.
  2. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
  3. Mosquito repellants don't repel. The spray blocks the mosquitoes sensors so they don't know you're there.
  4. In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
  5. Butterflies taste with their feet.
  6. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
  7. The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
  8. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
  9. The pupil of an eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.
  10. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

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