1171. Fact

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. (I'm going home to boil an egg tonight)

1172. Body Facts

All the bacteria living inside your body would fill six teaspoons.

1173. Fact

A housefly lives only two weeks.

1174. Fact

A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body

1175. Fact

A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp

1176. Fact

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

1177. Fact

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

1178. Fact

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

1179. Fact

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is of the ground.

1180. Fact

A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.

1181. Fact

A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.

1182. Fact

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

1183. Fact

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

1184. Fact

A male baboon can kill a leopard.

1185. Fact

'A man a plan a canal Panama' is also a palindrome

1186. Fact

A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.

1187. Fact

A manned mission to Mars (called for by the first President Bush) was quietly dropped when someone worked out it would cost $450 billion and would probably kill all the crew.

1188. Fact

A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.

1189. Fact

A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.

1190. Fact

A moth has no stomach.

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