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January 09, 2017

* FACTS 17

Hi Friends!

1. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

2. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

3. Over 75% of people who read this try to lick their elbow. If you didn't then you are among rest 25.

4. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

5. Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were make out of wood for a brief period.

6. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. It it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

7. Bill Gate's first business was Traf-o-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

8. Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.

9. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

10. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

11. Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

12. Hot water is heavier than cold.

13. If you went out into space,  you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

14. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

15. A ball in a glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. a ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

16. Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.

17. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

18. The Porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

19. Skunks can actually spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.

20. Jellyfish are immortal. But if they are kept in the sun rays then they will evaporate as they are 95% water.

Enjoy!