Some unknown facts to startle you..........

• More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
• The average person laughs 13 times a day!
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
• Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
• Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• Rubber bands last longer in refrigerator.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
• Chocolates can kill dogs.
• The thumb nail grows the slowest and the middle nail the fastest.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with eyes open.
• Traffic lights were used even before the invention of cars.
• Pregnant women tend to eat more if they carry a baby boy.
• The real name of Albert Brook is Albert Einstein
• A group of owls is called a parliament.
• The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
• More people die playing golf than any other sport, the leading cause of death is heart attacks and strokes.
• The most popular reason for not voting in elections, according to the U.S. Census, was "Too busy."
• Cows can climb upstairs but not downstairs.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, which is rarely visible. If it is visible it could be an indication of ill health.
• Crocodile sheds tear while eating.
• The snake that is responsible for the most human deaths is the saw-scaled or carpet viper which resides from West Africa to India.
• The sky is shrinking and has been doing so for the past 40 years, scientists have discovered. About five miles of sky have been lost since 1958, and that figure may double over the next century. Researchers studying the Earth's upper atmosphere, 56 miles up, said the contraction is probably a result of the greenhouse effect.
• 40,000 people die each year, worldwide, from snake bites.