CRAZY FACTS

Look closely, and you’ll see an Eastern screech owl hiding in plain sight! These owls are nocturnal and their amazing camouflage allows them to go largely unnoticed in the daytime. These owls only grow to about 22 cm (8.5 in) tall and weigh about 244 grams (8.6 oz), but they have been observed hunting squirrels and rats who rival them in length and weight. Eastern screech owls are found in North America from Canada all the way down to Mexico.

Elephants don’t drink through their trunks, but they do use them to suck up water and bring it to their mouths. A fully grown elephant can hold an estimated 10 liters of water in their trunks to make drinking easier. Baby elephants practice and refine this skill during the first few years of life, but will usually get the water directly from the source before it masters trunk dexterity.

10 years ago an eight-year-old boy had his arm bitten off by a shark. His uncle got mad and grabbed the 7-foot-long shark and dragged it to shore. The shark was killed, the arm removed from it's stomach, and reattached to the boy, who made a full recovery.

A FogScreen is a curtain of fog, or water vapour, onto which you can project images from a computer or video. Using a FogScreen it’s possible to show a film anywhere.

Golf balls can sometimes reach speeds of 273 kilometres (170 miles) per hour.

Women are automatically more attracted to guys who make an effort to start the conversation, showing initiative and consistency.  Scientist Laurence M Klauber (1883–1968) was known as ‘Mr Rattlesnake’. He collected 35,000 pickled snakes and reptiles over his life. (He didn’t eat them – they were pickled to preserve them for study!) In 1894, a turtle that was frozen inside a giant hailstone fell to earth. Brazil is home to 30 per cent of the rainforest left on earth The shell of a lobster is made of chitin – the same substance that mushrooms are made of.         like THE CrAzY fACtZ at FACEBOOK

Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking but spent so much time submerged in the icy Atlantic that doctors wanted to amputate his legs on rescue ship Carpathia. He refused the amputation ,recovered and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship that very same year

MI6 hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on bomb-making with a cupcake recipe!

A giant squid washed up in Canada in 1878 had a body that was 6 metres (20 feet) long with tentacles that measured up to 10.7 metres (35 feet) long.

Mosquitoes are attracted to humans by the smell of their feet more than any other part of the body.

Early anatomists were not allowed to study dead bodies, so they paid grave robbers to steal them. Often, the bodies of executed criminals were stolen and sold.

Dead bodies swell up as they rot, because decomposition produces lots of gas. Some dead bodies burp or fart as they release gas, which can be quite alarming!

A gunshot wound in his leg didn’t keep a Tampa, Florida pizza delivery man from finishing his rounds in 2005. Dedication to his work compelled Thomas Stefanelli to deliver four more pizzas before calling for help after being shot in a robbery attempt. Tom came in second in the Employee Of The Year contest, edged out by a coworker who refused bathroom access to a guy who wasn’t a paying customer.

Video games train the human brain to make faster real life decisions.

In 2006, a forty-one-year-old British woman married what she called “the love of my life”: a male dolphin named Cindy. The woman had met Cindy fifteen years before and said it was “love at first sight.”

Multimillionaire David Pizer has arranged to freeze his body in liquid nitrogen when he dies in hopes of being brought back to life someday. Pizer has also left his entire fortune to himself. I hope he’s not counting on his heirs to unfreeze him.

A former U.S. soldier who was wounded in Iraq w a s billed for his bloody body armor that was discarded as a biohazard. The man, who left the Army because of his injury, had to borrow $700 from friends to make the payment before the Army would discharge him. Oh, and thanks for serving!

In UK, if you reach your 100th birthday or 60th wedding anniversary, you get a personalized card from the Queen mailed to you.

The tree that bleeds when cut is known as Dragon's blood

Social Psychology - We only need two close friends in which we can trust. Having too many " friends " is linked to depression.

Your brain has the ability and capacity to store over one million songs and lyrics.

Glaciers melting and sea temperatures getting warmer has caused global sea levels to rise between 10 and 25 centimetres (between 4 and 10 inches) in the last century. This is all part of global warming.

180 million years ago, India was an island off the coast of Australia. The Earth’s land masses slowly move around, at up to 10 centimetres (4 inches) a year. 1001 Shocking

The Dead Sea has amazing healing properties.The water is rich in minerals and helps to relieve skin and joint problems.

Fossilized sea animals are often found on the tops of tall mountains.The mountain tops were once parts of the seabed that have been pushed upwards by colliding lumps of land.

There is no benefit in using striped toothpaste – the stripes are purely to make the toothpaste look more interesting.

Two of the most damaging human parasites are the malaria-causing Plasmodium and the flatworm Schistosoma, which causes schistosomiasis, an illness that damages internal organs and can negatively impact cognitive development and growth in children. Damn plasmodium. I knew I should’ve gone with the LCD instead. I bet those don’t give you malaria.

When a gas pipeline leaks in the California desert, workers put a chemical into the gas that attracts vultures.The vultures gather where the gas leaks out, so workers only need to spot the vultures to find the leak.

Recycling one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.

World's smallest hard drive (and it's 8GB). Yes, it's even smaller than the microdrive.

A huge cloud of gas in the middle of our galaxy is made of gaseous alcohol. A piece of the cloud the same volume as the Earth would be needed to produce the equivalent of one just glass of wine!

Demodex mites, or follicle mites, live in human skin. By some estimates, you have a colony of 1,000 to 2,000 living in your skin right now. When you touch someone or share fabrics with them, you’re trading follicle mites. Unless you touch someone’s heart, in which case you don’t give them follicle mites, but a warm fuzzy feeling inside. It’s a figure of speech, you see.

In 2004, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed around 230,000 people and was the ninth deadliest natural disaster since the Middle Ages.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to have had no full moon.

A new island called Surtur’s Island, near Iceland, was born in 1963! A volcano under the sea poured out lava which hardened and piled up to form the island.

Some rocks float on water. Pumice stone is hardened volcanic lava. It often contains so many air bubbles that it is light enough to float.

For 186 days of the year, the Sun is not visible at the North Pole.

The seeds of shepherd’s purse fill with water, swell up and burst – revealing a slimy layer. Bugs that stick to the slime are dissolved as the slimy seed eat them.

When you look at your tongue first thing in the morning, it is covered in white stuff. These are cells that died during the night

Japanese scientists have bred completely see-through frogs so that they can investigate their internal organs without having to kill and dissect them.

A cockroach can live for more than a week after its head has been cut off. Eventually, it starves to death.

If you spread out the tentacles of an Arctic jellyfish, they would stretch across 15 tennis courts

A beach in Hawaii is called Barking Sands because the sand seems to ‘bark’ like a dog when it’s walked on.The dry grains make a strange sound when rubbed together.

Enough energy reaches the Earth from the Sun every second to fulfil all our power needs for a year.

In one day, your blood travels 19,312 kilometres (12,000 miles)!

A chemical found in asparagus attracts fish. During the First World War,American soldiers were issued with asparagus so that if they were stranded near water they could eat the asparagus, urinate in the water and catch some fish to eat!

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of teats or nipples, usually twelve. It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. Contrary to popular belief, suicide rates during the Christmas holiday are low. The highest rates are during the spring.  In Kenya a turtle adopted a hippo that was abandoned after a tsunami. Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/#0MCwyCIzqZ5yO1MX.99 In December 2004, a tsunami hit the coast of Kenya. In the aftermath, a hippo calf named Owen was stranded. A group of fishermen worked tirelessly to rescue him. They took him to the Haller Park nature preserve where he was adopted by a 130-year-old tortoise named Mzee. The two animals soon became inseparable—they ate, played and swam together. They even developed a special communication system. Photos of the duo began to circulate and soon became int...

Creative people have a short attention span, are easily distracted and tend to talk to themselves more often.

A man once faked his death to see how many people would come to his funeral -- Only his mother showed up.

An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 workers die every year from occupation-related diseases.

The largest predatory fish in the world is the white shark. They average fifteen feet in length, though great whites as long as twenty feet have been documented. Over 100 shark attacks occur worldwide each year and 30–50 percent of them are caused by great whites. The great white can also swim up to 15 mph. Know what cannot? You. great

The purpose of dreaming is to help clean up the clutter from the mind and provide a temporary relief from a stressful life.

A dead whale spontaneously exploded while in transit on a truck in 2004. Internal pressure caused by methane gas build up within the body was the cause

A polar bear can rip the head off a human with one swipe of its paw.

Some fungi glow in the dark and can be seen from 15 metres (50 feet) away.They are used as natural lanterns

World's first Laptop! This is Toshiba T1100, the world first Laptop for the whole market. This was manufactured in 1985. This laptop ran entirely on floppy disks. It had no hard disk

The longest movie ever made is The Cure for Insomnia, lasting 5220 minutes. (that's 87 hours long)

On 7th July 1987 the temperature in Kansas, USA, rose from 24 degrees Celsius to 35 degrees Celsius (75 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit) in just ten minutes!

There are 35,000 species of spider but only 27 are known to be able to kill humans.

Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.

About 125 grams (5 ounces) of the food you eat each day comes out as faeces. Most of the rest is water, and the remainder is nutrients absorbed by your body.

Dogs can sense sadness in humans and will often attempt to make their owners happier by initiating cuddling.

Stinging nettles grow well in soil that contains dead bodies – they thrive on a chemical called phosphorous which is in the bones The smallest type of tree is a dwarf willow that grows in Greenland. It is only 5 centimetres (2 inches) tall.. The largest known spider was a goliath birdeating spider found in Venezuela in 1965. It measured 28 centimetres (11 inches) across! The atmospheric pressure at the centre of the Sun is 340 billion times greater than at sea level on Earth. People can be born with ears growing from their necks or chests.

The lava (molten rock) that erupts out of a volcano can be as hot as 1,200 degrees Celsius (2,200 degrees Fahrenheit) and the power of a large eruption can equal that of a million nuclear bombs

On 16 December 1811, the Mississippi river flowed backwards as a result of an earthquake

Recycling 1 tonne (2,205 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees from being cut down.

Some plants grow faster if they are played music. Researchers found the most effective music was ‘Bat out of Hell’ by the singer Meatloaf!

At any one time, around 100 lightning bolts are striking the earth.

A mushroom from Africa, called the Lady in the Veil, grows faster than any other organism in the world. It grows up to 20 centimetres (8 inches) in only 20 minutes, and can be heard cracking as it grows!

A medium fruit-and-yogurt smoothie at Dunkin’ Donuts contains four times as much sugar as a chocolate-frosted cake doughnut

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, a novel titled Futility told the story of an ocean liner named Titan that met its demise one April night when it collided with an iceberg.

The darkling beetle lives in the desert where it’s hard to find a drink. It has a special method – it sticks its front end into the sand and leaves its back end sticking up at night. Fog condenses on its behind, then runs down the beetle’s body into its mouth. Ingenious!

Oysters can change sex several times during their lives. The most dangerous animal to humans is the house fly – it carries more diseases than any other creature. Parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile have had no rain for 400 years. The hyena is the only wild animal that doesn’t catch rabies. Dead bodies can remain perfectly intact after many years. This can happen when fat in the body turns into a type of soap that doesn’t rot.

When you remember a past event, you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it, not the event itself.

Human studies suggest that the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours.

Mark Zuckerberg invited 5 people to his Harvard dorm room 9 years ago to discuss a business opportunity - Facebook. Only 2 people showed up and they got in. Today those two people are billionaires: Dustin Moskovitz $6.5 Billion and Eduardo Saverin $3.4 Billion.

Bad handwriting? Keep this in mind: more intelligent people tend to think faster, and as a result their handwriting is more sloppy.

Archaeologists have found what they think was a cream for treating pimples in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian prince.

In 2004, astronomers discovered a white dwarf that had turned into a huge diamond! It measures 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) across and if it were sold as jewellery it would have 10 billion, trillion, trillion carats!

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the whole world!

A sneeze travels at 161 kilometres (100 miles) per hour.

If a person is struck by lightning, they sometimes vaporize (evaporate) completely, so that there is nothing left of them at all.

The people who are willing to do anything & everything for others are usually the one's who get hurt the most.

Studies show that people who forgive are happier and healthier than those who hold resentments

It only takes 0.2 seconds to fall in love.

Night owls, people who prefer to stay up late tend to outperform, achieve and accomplish more than people who go to bed early.