Random Facts-- Weird Facts App on the I phone is the source

The Amazon constitutes about 40% of the remaining rain forests, but it is dissappearing at the rate of 7 football fields per minute.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slighlty less when the moon is directly overhead.

There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

An all- female population of lizards was discoverd in Armenia 40 years ago.

The common cold is brought to you by 1 out of 200 viruses.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

Sex can provide pain relief. Sex can also help you reduce stress.

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

It takes glass 1 million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infintie amount of times.

40-50% of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive ciculatory network.

Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not acutally feel pain.

An average human breathes around 11.000 liters of air (20% of which consists of oxygen) in 1 day.

Among teens 13-19 in the US, girls account for over 50% of new HIV infections.

Sound travel 4 times faster in water than in air.

If your mouth was completly dry you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.