My teacher makes me write out this stuff at school.
1. When flies take off, they jump backwards
2. The dead sea is so salty, it is impossible to swim in it.
3. A person can live for two weeks without food, but for only two days without water.
4. Human beings are the only animals to sleep on their backs.
5. A litre of vinegar is heavier in winter than it is in summer.
7. One day in Jupiter only lasts nine hours and fifty minutes.
8. Teddy bears were named after the American president, Thedore Roosevelt.
9. If the earth's yearly rainfall fell all at once, the world would be buried under a metre of water.
10. The Jeep got its name from its initials, GP which stood for General Purpose vehicle.
11. It takes forty minutes to hand-boil an ostrich egg.
12. The duck - brilled Platypus and the spiny ant - eater are both mammals that can both lay eggs.
13. Dogs sweat through their paws.
14.It takes eight and a half minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth.
15. The plastic from 5 soda bottles can completly insulate a ski jacket.
16. The original name for the butterfly was a flutterby.
17. A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
18. If it were possible to fold a 0.1mm sheet of paper 27 times, it would be as taller than Mount Everest.
25. Your stomach digests about 2,190 quarts of food each year, which is around 8,760 bowls of spaghetti.
26. Over half of your body's bones are in your hands and feet.
