In 1977, a thirteen-year-old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

A quarter of all mammal species are bats.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

Baby robins eat 14 feet (4m) of earthworms a day.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

A rat can chew through any building material, including concrete.

Women blink twice as often as men do.

Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.

The whole of a human’s skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans by 10 to 1.

A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100mph.

The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva drops per minute – about 2.5 droplets a word.

A whale’s penis is called a dork.

Reference: http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/article.php?sid=794

Dated 2007-04-03