Twitter Quick Facts – Twacts Part 2

It’s been a busy week on Twitter.  Here’s what we gave you this week.  As always, if you think we’re wrong on any of them, let us know in the comments,..bur we don’t think so!

What the Fact?

• The Shortfin Mako shark can swim at speeds of up to 86 miles per hour.
• Babies can breathe and swallow at the same time until they’re around 6 months old.
• Although babies cry a lot, they can’t produce tears until they’re around 6 to 8 weeks old.
• If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined and shared,everyone on Earth would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
• No matter which way Mickey Mouse is facing, his ears always point forwards.
• Estimates say that about 162 million adults use marijuana at least once per year, and 22.5 million use the drug daily.
• Left-handed or ambidextrous people’s brains have a ‘corpus collosum’ that is about 11% larger than those who are right-handed.
• Children who take music lessons show a considerable increase in the ability to learn.
• The closer you live to the equator, the more likely you are to have female children.
• Early in her career, Whitney Houston sang the jingle used in commercials for Bounce fabric sheets.
• At age 10,Justin Timberlake won the 1991 pre-teen Mr. America pageant.
• Gwen Stefani has only had two boyfriends in her life:No Doubt band mate Tony Kanal and husband Gavin Rossdale.
• Someone who is 6 feet tall earns, on average, nearly $166,000 more during a 30-year career than someone who is 5 feet 5 inches.
• The longest run in a Super Bowl was 100 yards after an interception by Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison during Super Bowl XLIII.
• The word amen literally means “So be it; truly”.
• The first country to grant women the right to vote in the modern era was New Zealand in 1893.
• Although women attempt suicide about three times more than men, men are successful about three times more often.
• Global consumption of caffeine is estimated at 120,000 tons per year making it the world most popular psychoactive substance.
• The word “samba” means “to rub navels together”.
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• When ants they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
• The average speed of semen at the moment of ejaculation is 31 miles per hour!
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words!
• A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
• In 18th century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
• Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.
• A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: “Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway.”
• Napoleon’’s penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000.
• The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

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We do our best to check all the facts we post or tweet but if you think we’re wrong on anything, stick it in the comments.

See you next week for another Twitter catch up post.