Strange Facts

Here is a small collection of strange facts. They are not necessarily useful facts, but they can get you thinking, and maybe even help you win that next trivia game.

- It has been shown that a cockroach can live nine days without its head before dying.

- You can't sneeze with your eyes open (don't try this at home).

- Stretch your arms out and have someone measure fingertip to fingertip. For most people this will be almost exactly how tall they are.

- Using U.S. coins, there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

- A dragonfly lives for only about 24 hours.

- A piece of paper can only be folded in half, and then in half again and again for 7 times or less. (This one you can try at home).

- Shave a tiger (don't try this one), and you'll see that it has striped skin, not just striped fur.

- Peanuts have been used as one of the ingredients of dynamite.

- For the average person, their left hand does 56% of the typing.

- Some of the creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert are estimated to be as much as 12,000 years old, making them the oldest living things on earth.

Even Stranger Strange Facts

- The heart of a blue whale is several feet across, and the tongue of a blue whale is several meters.

- Scientists claim that a goldfish has a memory span of just three seconds.

- There are more people killed by donkeys every year than are killed in plane crashes.

- It is estimated that a snail can sleep for 3 years.

- An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.

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