HUMAN BEINGS ARE THE ONLY CREATURES THAT KILL FOR NO REASON

Lions, snakes, and most animals only kill when they are very hungry or agitated. A snake can enter into a place containing up to four baby rats that can neither run nor defend themselves, and eat only one of them and leave without harming the others. A lion that has just finished eating to his fill can live in peace and harmony with its prey up until it gets hungry again

AN OSTRICH CAN OUTRUN A HORSE

Ostriches are the largest and heaviest birds in the world!
Although they cannot fly, ostriches sure can run! They are the fastest-running birds, reaching speeds of up to 43 mph (70 km/h)! At this speed, they are the only animals that can outrun horses and leopards!
Obviously, the amazing speed of the ostrich is helpful in outrunning predators, but the ostrich can also use its powerful legs to kick like a kangaroo. In fact, its kick is strong enough to kill a lion. Ostriches can also defend themselves with a 4-inch claw on each foot.

YOU CANT TICKLE YOURSELF

the brain is trained to know what to feel when a person moves or performs any function. We aren't aware of a lot of the sensations generated by our movements. For example, you probably don't pay much attention to your vocal cords when you speak. For the same reason, we can't tickle ourselves. If we grab our sides in an attempt to tickle ourselves, our brain anticipates this contact from the hands and prepares itself for it. By taking away the feeling of unease and panic, the body no longer responds the same as it would if someone else were to tickle us.

A FROG'S SKIN CAN SECRETE POISON THAT CAN KILL AN ADULT HUMAN BEING.

amphibians are not known to actively inject venom. Most toxic amphibians are instead known to be poisonous to touch or eat. Amphibians usually sequester toxins from animals and plants on which they feed, commonly from poisonous insects or poisonous plants. One example of this is the well-known poison dart frog. They get a deadly chemical called lipophilic alkaloid from consuming a poisonous food in the rainforest. They are immune to the poison and they secrete it through their skin as a defense mechanism against predators. This poison is so efficient, the native people of the South American Amazon rainforest use the frogs' toxins on their weapons to kill their prey, giving the frogs their nickname the "poison dart frog". Some people use the bufotoxins of some species of toxic toads as a drug to get high, but this can become very dangerous. Usually due to the toads' size and toxicity, the poisons would not be deadly to a fully grown, healthy adult. But if too much of the toxin is absorbed, or if the person is young or ill, then the poisons can become a serious threat. It also depends on species: some amphibians do have toxins strong enough to kill even a healthy mature person within just a few minutes, while other species may not have toxins potent enough to have any effect. Licking toads is not biologically practical. For these tryptamines to be orally activated, the human monoamine oxidase system must be inhibited. Therefore, licking a poisonous amphibian will not guarantee a sufficient dose.

DRY ICE TRANSFORMS DIRECTLY TO FROM BEING A SOLID TO A GAS (WITHOUT TURNING TO LIQUID)

Dry ice, sometimes referred to as "cardice" (chiefly British chemists), is the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is used primarily as a cooling agent. Its advantages include lower temperature than that of water ice and not leaving any residue (other than incidental frost from moisture in the atmosphere). It is useful for preserving frozen foods, ice cream, etc., where mechanical cooling is unavailable.
Dry ice sublimes at −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) at Earth atmospheric pressures. This extreme cold makes the solid dangerous to handle without protection due to burns caused by freezing (frostbite). While generally not very toxic, the outgassing from it can cause hypercapnia due to buildup in confined locations.
Camphor is also another substance that possesses this sublimation property.

NO FOOD IS NATURALLY BLUE

Blueberries, blue corn, and blue potatoes are actually purple. Blue food is a rare occurrence in nature. There are no leafy blue vegetables, no blue meats, and aside from blueberries and a few blue-purple potatoes from remote spots on the globe, blue just doesn't exist in any significant quantity as a natural food color. Furthermore, our primal nature avoids food that are poisonous. A million years ago, when our earliest ancestors were foraging for food, blue, purple and black were "color warning signs" of potentially lethal food.

THE HARDEST PART OF THE HUMAN BODY IS THE FRONT TEETH (ENAMEL)

The human thigh bones are stronger than concrete, but the hardest part of the human body is the enamel.
The high mineral content of enamel, which makes this tissue the hardest in the human body, also makes it susceptible to a demineralization process which often occurs as dental caries, otherwise known as cavities.

FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH WORDS AND SENTENCES

- "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains all the letters in an alphabet
- All continents in the world start and end with the same letter
- The past tense of "dare" is "durst"
- The word "testify" was derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
- The word "racecar" can be spelt the same way backwards
- "Rhythm" is the longest spelt word without a vowel
- The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

YOUR FOOT AND YOUR FOREARM ARE THE SAME LENGTH

THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF A DICE ALWAYS ADD UP TO SEVEN

WHY IS THIS SO?
-Imagine a transparent cube. It has to have an exact centre. From that centre to each given surface which are six, have to be equally balanced. Each opposite sides, which are two, delivers seven dimples in total in order to make the dice purely balanced in order to make it tumble thus making fair game. 
-Opposite sides of a die traditionally add up to seven, implying that the 1, 2 and 3 faces share a vertex. These faces may be placed clockwise or counterclockwise about this vertex. If the 1, 2 and 3 faces run counterclockwise, the die is called "right-handed", and if those faces run clockwise, the die is called "left-handed". Western dice are normally right-handed, and Chinese dice are normally left-handed.

LIGHTNING STRIKES THE EARTH SIX THOUSAND TIMES EVERY MINUTE

Lightning strikes the earth six thousand times every minute and The old saying that 'lightning never strikes the same place twice' is another myth that any veteran storm observer or researcher has seen nature defy. Lightning can strike any location more than once. In fact, given enough time, it is actually inevitable. It may take as little as less than ten minutes within a single thunderstorm, or longer than a million years - but lightning will eventually strike the same spot again and again. A strike to any location does nothing to change the electrical activity in the storm above, which will produce another strike as soon as it 'recharges'. The previously hit location is then just as fair game for the next discharge as any other spot.

YOU CANNOT HOLD YOUR OWN BREATH UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD

This is because of your autonomic nervous system.. you can hold your breath but when you hold it so long that you pass out, your brain will tell your Autonomic Nervous system to make you breath. 

You can't hold your breath forever because after your brain is oxygen deprived for a time you will pass out. When you pass out you will begin to breathe again (assuming there is nothing preventing it) because breathing is an involuntary. That is why when children threaten their mother's with "holding my breath until I die", it's best just to let them try... (Most of them won't make it to the "pass-out" stage anyway.)

A PIECE OF PAPER CANT BE FOLDED MORE THAN SEVEN TIMES

- The number of layers of paper doubles with each fold. So you start with a single layer, then you have two layers, then four, then eight, then 16, then 32, then 64 layers after six folds. Maybe if you are very strong, and you use a pair of pliers, you can get to seven folds and 128 layers, but it probably won’t be pretty.
- At that point the sheet of paper is so small, and the number of layers so large relative to the small size, and the distortion caused by the folds so great, that there is no way to fold it again. You can’t apply enough leverage, and the fibers of the paper do not have enough flexibility for another fold.
- But what if you used a much larger piece of paper, so that you can diminish the effects of fold distortion and paper fiber flexibility? If you use a big enough sheet of paper, you can get to 11 folds, or 2,048 layers, before you reach the limitations of folding.

WINE SPOILS ON EXPOSURE TO LIGHT

Wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils on exposure to sunlight. Exposure to heat, light, vibrations or even changes in temperature can spoil wine. Humidity can also dry out a wine cork, causing oxidation and spoiling the wine. Storage of wine is an important consideration for wine that is being kept for long-term aging. While most wine is consumed within 24 hours of purchase, fine wines are often set aside for long-term storage. Wine is one of the few commodities that can improve with age, but it can also rapidly deteriorate if kept in inadequate conditions. The three factors that have the most direct impact on a wine's condition are light, humidity and temperature. A fourth consideration is security for expensive wines. Historically, the storage of wine was handled by wine merchants. Since the mid-20th Century, however, consumers have been increasingly storing their own wine in home-based wine cellars.

HOW TO TEST WHETHER YOUR EGG IS HARDBOILED OR UNCOOKED

1. Lay the egg on its side on a smooth, hard surface
2. Spin it with your fingers and thumb
3. Stop its rotation with a finger tip, by placing your finger directly down on the rotating egg.
4. Lift your finger up immediately

-If the egg remains still, it is hard boiled egg
-If the egg continues to slowly rotate, it is uncooked

FOODS CANT BE TASTED WITHOUT SALIVA

The tongue is a muscle with glands, sensory cells, and fatty tissue that helps to moisten food with saliva. You cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For instance, if salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to identify it. As soon as saliva is added, the salt dissolves and the taste sensation takes place.

See: You cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva

Try the Experiment
Materials
*.dry food, such as cookies, crackers or pretzels
*.paper towels
*.water
Experiment
1.Dry your tongue! Lint-free paper towels are a good choice, but if you'd rather use your shirt or arm or whatever, I'm not going to stop you.
2.Place a sample of dry food on your tongue. You'll get the best results if you have multiple foods available and you close your eyes and have a friend feed you the food. This is because some of what you taste is psychological. It's like when you pick up a can expecting cola and it's tea... the taste is "off" because you already have an expectation. Try to avoid bias in your results by removing visual cues.
3.What did you taste? Did you taste anything? Take a sip of water and try again, letting all that saliva-goodness work its magic.
4.Lather, rinse, repeat with other types of food.

COLLISION PREVENTION ASSIST PLUS

Mercedes-Benz Accident Avoidance -- COLLISION PREVENTION ASSIST PLUS  

COLLISION PREVENTION ASSIST PLUS compares your speed to other drivers while on the road and uses radar technology to detect when a possible collision is likely. It then alerts the driver to break. The breaks are applied autonomously, in the event that the driver does not react.