Some strange and interesting facts

Strange Interesting Facts

1                     Bone is five times stronger than steel.

2                      It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

3                      Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

4                      A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

5                     Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

6                     The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

7                      Humans use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.  So keep smiling always.

8                     The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.

9                     By age  of sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

10                 After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

11                 The word 'set ' has the most number of definitions in the English language: 192.

12                 A camel's hump is not used for water storage, but camels can go for long periods of time without water. They drink large amounts of water up to 20 gallons at a time. This water is stored in the animal's bloodstream.

         13.         OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees