- If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.
- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- In Ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
- The only food that does not spoil: honey.
- Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.