Bones Facts

• The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.

• There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.

• The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.

• The human face is made up of 14 bones.

• The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.

• If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.

• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

• Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

• Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.

• Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

• Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.

• In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.

• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

• Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

• The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!

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• Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.

• Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.

• A spooked turkey can run at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between 50-55 mph in a matter of seconds.

So close, yet so far

• A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.

• Gobbling starts before sunrise and can continue through most of the morning.

• Turkeys fly to the ground at first light and feed until mid-morning. Feeding resumes in mid-afternoon.

• Turkeys spend the night in trees. They fly to their roosts around sunset.

• Minnesota led the United States in turkey production in 2001. Forty-three million turkeys were produced.

• Turkey eggs hatch in 28 days.

• The fleshy growth under a turkey’s throat is called a wattle.

• Turkeys have a long, red, fleshy area called a snood that grows from the forehead over the bill.

• The caruncle is a red-pink fleshy growth on the head and upper neck of the turkey.

• Israelis eat the most turkeys.....28 pounds per person.

• The costume that "Big Bird" wears on Sesame Street is rumored to be made of turkey feathers.

• Turkey skins are tanned and used to make cowboy boots and belts.

We Use It Every Day But It Could be Dangerous

Cosmetics can cause surprising problems. Is your mascara clumpy? Your liquid foundation thickening? Can’t remember what year you bought your half- used lipstick? Dermatologists say your old makeup may be causing you blemishes or even worse—it could lead to a dangerous infection.

Dermatologist Angela Bowers warns that old makeup could be harboring dangerous bacteria. So how do you know when to throw them out? Bowers says, "It's difficult to know because cosmetics usually don’t include expiration dates."

Eye make-ups and liquid foundations last the least amount of time and should be tossed out after just three months. Bowers says, "The bacteria can get in there and the preservatives might not be working quite as well as they were when you first opened it. If you get some of that in your eye you may develop conjuctivitus which we know as 'pink-eye.'" Powders and foundations opened more than a year ago can also cause problems. According to Bowers, "…Old, expired makeup that might irritate the skin and cause little red bumps that look like acne."

And don't forget your makeup applicators. Bowers says, "If you use sponges to apply makeup, you should replace those at least once a week."

How to make the final, expensive, decision? Do just like you do when you’re figuring out whether your milk is too old—put your nose inside the container and take a deep sniff. An unusual odor usually means that it contains bacteria.

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Language Facts

• According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."

• Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).

• Victor Hugo's Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

• There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

• There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

• There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

• There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.

• There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

• There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of each are understudy and gynophobia.

• There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

• There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

• The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

First Happens Facts

• Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.

• An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she 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.

• The greatest snow fall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

• The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

• The town of Tidikelt in the Share Desert once went ten years without rainfall.

• The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

• The word "earthling" was first found in print in 1593.

• The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.

Snow and Ice Facts

The largest piece of ice to fall to earth was an ice block 6 meters (20 ft) across that fell in Scotland on 13 August 1849.

The largest hailstone recorded fell on 14 April 1986 in Bangladesh weighing 1kg (2.25lbs). The hailstorm reportedly killed 92 people.

The largest snowflakes in the world fell across Fort Keogh in Montana (USA) on 28 January 1887.

Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the only permanent snowcap within sight of the equator.

Permanent snow and ice cover about 12% (21 million square km's) of the Earth's land surface. 80% of the world's fresh water is locked up as ice or snow.

A single snowstorm can drop 40 million tons of snow, carrying the energy equivalent to 120 atom bombs.

There is NOT a law of nature that prohibits 2 snowflakes from being identical.

Denver CO received 9.6 inches of snow. October of that year proved to be the coldest and snowiest of record for Denver, with a total snowfall for the month of 31.2 inches.

Light snow falls in Canberra during most years, but it rarely accumulates to more than a few centimeters.

In Australia, snowfalls are common above 1,500m in the Alps during the winter, but there are no permanent snowfields anywhere on the continent.

Denver CO was buried under 21.3 inches of snow, 19.4 inches of which fell in 24 hours. The heavy wet snow snapped trees and wires causing seven million dollars damage.

Parts of Michigan and Wisconsin experienced their first freeze of the autumn. Snow and sleet were reported in the Sheffield and Sutton areas of northeastern Vermont at midday.

The most snow produced in a single snowstorm is 4.8 meters (15.75ft) at Mt Shasta Ski Bowl, California (USA) between 13 and 19 February 1959.

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