April 29, 2007: Fun Facts - Jelly fish is 95% water?

• In the 1940's, it was estimated that by the year 2000,
  computers would only weigh 1.5 tons.
• Hummingbirds are the only type of birds that can fly backwards
• The world's fastest reptile (measured on land) is the spinytailed iguana
  of Costa Rica. It has been clocked at 21.7 mph.
• Elephants can smell water three miles away!
• 9 out of every 10 cells in your body are bacteria.
  Most of these bacteria do not harm your body, it helps it.
• Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute!
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body!
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can!
• About 10% of the world's population is lefthanded
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
• The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth.
  Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
• The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand,
  weighing less than a penny
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open
• Jellyfish are 95 percent water
• You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed
• All polar bears are left handed.
• "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
• The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
• The average person laughs about 15 times a day
• Ants never sleep!