Amazing Facts

• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
• About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
•  Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
•  Slugs have 4 noses!
•  Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
•  It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
•  Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
•  Americans consume almost half of the world’s annual chocolate products
•  Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
•  Chocolate is not particularly high in caffeine. You would have to eat ten chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine as you find in a single cup of coffee.
•  Chocolate is good for you — unfortunately, its additives aren’t! Pure cocoa powder is full of iron and antioxidants. Add sugar or butter, though, and the calories begin to mount.
•  In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
•  Human body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
•  More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
•  The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
•  Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
•  One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
• Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!