Few Quickies

I came across few interesting facts...some of them are fun, some are surprising and some are really scary.

• 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (This is the most scariest one)
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. (hmm, doesn’t give up that easy..)
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (what if we say "quack", does that echo?)
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Always tell ur secrets to Goldfishes ;))
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. (This one’s very surprising)
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph. (I knew it was fast, but never imagined this speed…)
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (Funny,eh?)
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. (Never heard of this before…)
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open. (Pretty cautious!)
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (short & sweet)
• It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound. (It takes less than a minute for people to gobble it…sad)
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. (Wow…they are also the only bird that can swim but not fly)
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. (An important hint for people in India. Watch out!)
• The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. (Phew, can't even count the number of zeros...)
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. (Another scary one!!!)