1. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

男人被閃電擊中的概率比女人高6倍。

2. Over 2500 left-handed people a year are killed from using products made for right-handed people.

每年有超過2500名左撇子在使用為右撇子設計的產品時死亡。

3. Every time you lick a stamp, you‘re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

每次你舔郵票的背面時，你就吃下了1/10個卡路里。

4. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

絕大部分的唇膏里都含有魚鱗成分。

5. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.。

人打噴嚏時，嘴里的氣流速度超過每小時100英里。

6. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

用藍色牙刷的人比用紅色的人多。

7. The most used letter in the English alphabet is “E”, and “Q” is the least used.

在英語字母表中，“E”是用得最多的字母，“Q”則是被用得最少的。

8. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

在美國，每45秒就有一所房子著火。

9. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

每4個美國人中，就有一個人上過電視。

10. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

人體內的骨頭有1/4集中在雙腳上。

11. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

人的牙齒幾乎和石頭一樣硬。

12. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

世界上最早有條形碼標記的商品是箭牌香口膠。

13. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

任何一張干燥的方型紙片都不能被對折超過7次以上。

14. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

古代埃及人的枕頭是石頭做成的。

15. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

一個普通人每年要做1460個夢。

16. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off--it dies from starvation.

蟑螂在被砍頭之后還能活幾個星期，最后死也是餓死。

17. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.

貓狗和人一樣也有左、右撇子之分。

18. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.

大象是唯一一種不會跳的哺乳類動物。

19. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

海豚睡覺睜一眼閉一眼。

20. The placement of a donkey‘s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

驢子眼睛的位置能讓它隨時看到自己的四條腿。

21. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

雞的最長飛行紀錄是13秒。

22. Cat urine glows under a black-light.

貓尿能在黑光燈下發光。

23. Over 10, 000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

每年有超過一萬只鳥因為撞到窗戶上死亡。

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