Random Facts 10

1. A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
2. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
3. The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that telephone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
4. Starfish don’t have brains.
5. The average human will drink about 72,737 litres of water in a lifetime.
6. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 0.1 of a calorie
7. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all of the world’s telephones put together
8. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court
9. If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
10. The catfish has more than 2700 taste buds