i should tell my mum that. The name "muppets" derived from jim henson combining the words "puppet" and "marionettes"
Hiccups happen when the diaphragm, the muscle that controls our breathing, becomes irritated and start to spasm and contract uncontrollably. With each contraction, air is pulled into the lungs very quickly, passes through the voice box, and then the epiglottis closes behind the rush of air, shaking the vocal chords, causing the "hic" sound. The irritation can be caused by rapid eating, emotional stress and even some diseases. The best cure? Breathing into a paper bag. This calms the diaphragm by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream. The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot. Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood. Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day. On average, people can hold their breath for about one minute. The world record is 15 minutes 2 seconds, by Tom Sietas.. The human head contains 22 bones
The Gobe desert has got permanent snows and camels have got to eat snow in order to preserve humidity The horn of the rhinos is just a bunch of hard hairs
That Earth has two moons. the one we see every night and another that is very small and we can only see once every 600 odd years.
At birth the human body has about 350 bones, but by the time adulthood rolls around, some of our bones have fused together to give us a total of 206 bones in our body! Here is the breakdown: The adult skeleton consists of 206 bones . . . - 28 skull bones (8 cranial, 14 facial, and 6 ear bones); - the horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone of the neck; - 26 vertebrae (7 cervical or neck, 12 thorax, 5 lumbar or loins, the sacrum which is five fused vertebrae, and the coccyx, our vestigial tail, which is four fused vertebrae); - 24 ribs plus the sternum or breastbone; the shoulder girdle (2 clavicles, the most frequently fractured bone in the body, and 2 scapulae); - the pelvic girdle (2 fused bones); - 30 bones in our arms and legs (a total of 120); - There are also a few partial bones, ranging from 8-18 in number, which are related to joints.
Are you studying Human Biology at uni Leeds Disney Fan? A lot of people do not seem to realise that Cranberra is the capital of Australia, they assume it is Sydney but are wrong!
A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year. Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Ants never sleep. Singapore has only one train station. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Gabriel and Michael are the only angels in the Bible that have names. In 1961, Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside-down for 2 months in the Museum of Modern Art, New York - none of the 116,000 visitors had noticed. Picasso could draw before he could walk and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil. Sumerians invented writing in the 4th century BC. The first book published is thought to be the Epic of Gilgamesh, written at about 3000 BC in cuneiform, an alphabet based on symbols. The first history book, the Great Universal History, was published by Rashid-Eddin of Persia in 1311. The first novel, called The story of Genji, was written in 1007 by Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu. William Shakespeare wrote his first play The Taming of the Shrew in 1593. The German PJ Reuter started a foreign news agency in 1858. Today Reuters is one of the biggest news agencies in the world. The oldest surviving daily newspaper is the Wiener Zeitung of Austria. It was first printed in 1703.
An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years. Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850. There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services. After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed. For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air. On every continent there is a city called Rome.
kangaroos are the only animal in the world that does not break wind! The first ever living thing on the planet earth was a eukaryotic cell which evolved into all living organisms which are found on the planet earth. The earth is 5.4 billion years old!
Koalas are not bears. They are MARSUPIALS, which means that they carry their young in a pouch. Koalas have two thumbs on their front paws - to help them climb, to hold onto the tree and to grip their food. Koalas are NOCTURNAL animals. This means that they sleep in the daytime, and move around and feed at night. Koalas' fur is different in different parts of Australia. In the southern parts of Australia it is longer and shaggier than in the north, in order to keep them warm in the cold southern winters. The male koala has a dark scent gland in the center of his chest. He rubs this on the tree in order to mark his territory. Koalas also communicate with each other by making a noise like a snore and then a belch, known as a "bellow" Koalas usually have only one cub per year. Older females will usually have one every two years. When koalas are born, they are only 2 centimetres long, which is about as big as a jellybean!
The biggest selling UK artist of the 90's in America was not Oasis...or the Spice Girls...or Robbie Williams...but Bush (Gwen Stefani's husband's band for those who have never heard of them)
you saying about your guide animal...this is my rainbow animal (and my nickname as a baby: A defense that all species of hedgehogs possess is the ability to roll into a tight ball, causing all of the spines to point outwards. However, its effectiveness depends on the number of spines, and since some of the desert hedgehogs evolved to carry less weight, they are much more likely to try to run away and sometimes even attack the intruder, trying to ram into the intruder with its spines, leaving rolling as a last resort. This results in a different number of predators for different species: while forest hedgehogs have relatively few, primarily birds (especially owls) and ferrets, smaller species like the Long-eared Hedgehog are preyed on by foxes, wolves and mongooses.
Ok the facts are so interesting but how do they allocate your names? I'd love to be called Tiger! Ipod's are built to only have a lifespan of 2 years, this is newer ones.
