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The fattest man in the world weighs 1,500 pounds.
The world's stinkiest animal is the Skunk. Myths. The world's stinkiest animal holder is Tasmanian Devil.
Norma Stitz (born Annie Hawkins-Turner), is noted for her extremely large natural breasts. Her name is a word-play on the phrase "enormous tits".
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. Facts.
On average, a person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The longest English word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Fact.
Humans are born with 300 bones, but by the time they become adults, there are only 206 bones left.
Human's stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Human's heart beats over 100,000 times every single day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes tend to bite people who have recently eaten bananas.
Leonid Ivanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Стадник), (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) was formerly listed as the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records.
He Pingping (Chinese: 何平平; born July 1988) is a Chinese man who has been officially named by the Guinness World Records as the world's shortest man who is able to walk.
Your heart does not stop when you sneeze. A sneeze begins with a tickling sensation in the nerve endings that sends a message to your brain that it needs to rid itself of something irritating the lining of your nose.
Why do people say, “God bless you,” after someone sneezes? There are varying accounts as to the origin of this response. One belief is that it originated in Rome when the bubonic plague was raging through Europe.
Sneezes are an automatic reflex that can't be stopped once sneezing starts.
Sneezes can travel at a speed of 100 miles per hour and the wet spray can radiate five feet.
People don't sneeze when they are asleep because the nerves involved in nerve reflex are also resting.
Between 18 and 35% of the population sneezes when exposed to sudden bright light.
Some people sneeze when plucking their eyebrows because the nerve endings in the face are irritated and then fire an impulse that reaches the nasal nerve.
Donna Griffiths from Worcestershire, England sneezed for 978 days, sneezing once every minute at the beginning. This is the longest sneezing episode on record.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Fact. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
During a lifetime, a person eats about 60,000 pounds of food.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was nine. His parents thought he might have be retarded.
The largest coral reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef located in Australia. The reef is approximately 2023 kilometers long.
Wearing headphones for just an hour increases the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Two words were invented by Shakespeare: assassination and bump.
The World's Stinkiest Cheese is Vieux Boulogne, a relatively recent cheese from North of France, similar in taste with Boulette d'Avesnes.
The world's stinkiest slower is the Titan Arum, which is also the world's largest flower.
The earth gets heavier everyday due to meteoric dust and space dust settling on it.
Cat urine can glow under a dark light. Isn't that an odd fact?
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Donna Griffiths from Worcestershire, England sneezed for 978 days, sneezing once every minute at the beginning. This is the longest sneezing episode on record.
Carnivores, or meat eaters, that use the sneakiest of tricks to trap their insect dinners.
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A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. Facts.
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The World's Stinkiest Cheese is Vieux Boulogne, a relatively recent cheese from North of France, similar in taste with Boulette d'Avesnes.
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