Classmate Facts # 44 - Far Facts!!

1. After death, cartilage rots faster than bone. This is why the skulls of skeletons have no nose or ears.

2. Lighthouse keepers used to catch fish by flying a kite from the balcony of their lighthouses.

3. A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.

4. Seen a Barbie Doll? Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts!

5. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

6. There are more bacteria in your mouth, than the human population of US and Canada combined.

Classmate Facts # 43 - Flying Cows!!!

1. In May 1963, an American cow called Fawn was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this, too and lived to the ripe old age of 25.

2. The botanical name for the cocoa bean from which chocolate is produced is Theobroma, which is Greek for "Food of the Gods".

3. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

4. E-mails started in 1971. The first e-mail sent by Ray Tomlinson was written entirely in UPPERCASE!

5. Galileo became totally totally blind before his death, probably from looking at the sun too much!

6. Coconut water can be used as a blood plasma substitute!

Classmate Facts # 42 - Heard of a 'Portmanteau'?

1. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better.

2. No word in the English language rhymes with Month, Orange, Silver or Purple.

3. The first novel ever written on a typewriter was 'Tom Sawyer'.

4. Hershey's kisses are called that because the machine that makes them look like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

5. The Amazon Rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.

6. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g. Motor + Hotel = Motel, Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch) the new word is called a "Portmanteau".

Classmate Facts # 41 - That's a Fact!!

1. Tough, Though, Through and Thorough are formed by adding a letter every time between t and ough, but none of them rhymes with any other.

2. Professional ballerinas use about twelve pairs of toe shoes per week.

3. The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.

4. Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

5. Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.

6. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of 6 feet, normally without being hurt.

Classmate Facts # 40 - Reindeer Antifreeze!!

1. It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Try it out!!)

2. Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly... wondering what these are? Names of Butterflies!!

3. Aegilops, 8 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.

4. Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

5. In 1883, the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the Earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost 2 years.

6. How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? By eating moss! The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing!

Classmate Facts # 39 - Fun Info!

1. The shortest complete sentence in the English language? "Go".

2. A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

3. Spoonfed, 9 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order.

4. A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands or feet.

5. A cat sees about six times better than humans at night because of Tapetum Lucidum, a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

6. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

Classmate Facts # 38 - 500 KGS OF FOOD!!

1. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand in the desert!

2. A day on the planet mercury is twice as long as its year!

3. The largest bone is the pelvis, or hipbone. In fact it is made of 6 bones joined firmly together.

4. We eat about 500 kg of food per year.

5. An octopus has three hearts!

6. During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick' only sold 50 copies.