Stupid Facts

• The world's fastest land animal is the cheetah, reaching speeds of 60-70 mph (110 km/hr).

• The fastest animal on earth is the peregrine falcon clocked at over 180 mph (290 km/hr).

• A regular hen's egg has about 7,000 tiny pores in its shell.

• Red blood cells do not contain a nucleus.
  (see Human Blood)

• There are approximately 100,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body.
  (See Large Number Names)

• A single molecule of human DNA could stretch to over 3 feet (.9 m) long.

• In tennis, zero points is referred to as love, which is possibly derived from the French word for egg, l'oeuf, referring to the physical appearance of the number zero.
  (See Wimbledon winners)

• No U.S. President has had brown eyes until Barack Obama (44).
  (See US Presidents)

• One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

• The only part of the human body that cannot develop cancer is the lens of the eye.

• The only areas of the human exterior that do not sweat are the nailbeds, eardrums, the bulbous end of the penis, and part of the lips.

• During pregnancy, the uterus can increase up to 200 times it normal volume.