Interesting facts

• A giant squid's eye is as big as a basketball. • Barbie's real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. • The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. • The average person says 5,000 words in one day. • The dog who played ToTo in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz got paid $125 per week. • Jellyfish are 95 per cent water. • An albatross can sleep while it flies. • One billion seconds is about 31.7 years. • One toad can eat 10,000 insects in one summer. • The only food that never ever spoils is honey. • Lemons have more sugar than strawberries. • French author Michel Thaler wrote a 233 page book with no verbs. • Apocolocynopsis is the fear of being turned into a pumpkin. • Clinophobia is fear of going to bed. • Logizomechanophobia is the fear of computers. • Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers. • Phobophobia is the fear of fear. • The can opener was invented about 50 years after the can. • Leonardo daVinci wrote backwards because he was left-handed and did not want to get ink all over his hand. • The liquid inside a young coconut can be used as a replacement for blood plasma. • The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches. • Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie. • The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard. • A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. • Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. • A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. • Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand – an hour hand. • No one knows who designed the first American Flag. • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. • When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp. • Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. • You are about 1 centimetre taller in the morning than in the evening! • Bananas aren't fruit! They are a type of herb. • Albert Einstien never wore any socks • A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. • The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles! • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon. • In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. • Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine. — Compiled by The Surfer