Thursday 8 February 2007

Random Facts 11

  1. The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia.
  2. Between the ages of 30 and 70 your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5m.
  3. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6months to grow from base to tip.
  4. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.
  5. Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
  6. Over 1500 new species have been found in Australian waters in the past 10 years.
  7. Humans produce about 40,000 litres of saliva in a lifetime.
  8. When a woman is pregnant, her uterus expands to 500 times it’s normal size.
  9. The average person will consume 50 tonnes of food and 45,000 litres of water in a lifetime.
  10. Chickens can travel up to 15km per hour.

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