Libra Odd Spot

Odd Spot #5

You can stop a sneeze by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth

Odd Spot #14

A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip

Odd Spot #17

1.5 billion kilograms of chocolate are consumed worldwide each year

Odd Spot #18

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

Odd Spot #19

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers

Odd Spot #24

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider

Odd Spot #25

Most people fear public speaking more than death

Odd Spot #26

The total length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over thirty metres

Odd Spot #32

Clouds fly higher during the day than at night

Odd Spot #33

Travelling by air is the safest means of transport

Odd Spot #35

The human brain is about 85%water

Odd Spot #36

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown

Odd Spot #38

About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed

Odd Spot #40

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated

Odd Spot #47

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night

Odd Spot #48

The Neanderthal Man’s brain was bigger than modern man’s

Odd Spot #49

The modern flushing toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper

Odd Spot #53

Turtles and honeybees are both deaf

Odd Spot #54

Swans are the only birds with penises

Odd Spot #55

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of up to 100kpm

Odd Spot #56

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and then sinking to the bottom

Odd Spot #66

40 people are sent to hospital for dog bites every minute

Odd Spot #66

The left lung is smaller than the right to make room for the heart

Odd Spot #72

The average human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon

Odd Spot #74

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

Odd Spot #75

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

Odd Spot #76

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest

Odd Spot #82

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes

Odd Spot #87

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white

Odd Spot #89

Most lipsticks contain fish scales

Odd Spot #91

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in their lifetime

Odd Spot #97

You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 metres away in very quiet conditions

Odd Spot #99

The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache

Odd Spot #102

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windshield wipers were all invented by women

Odd Spot #111

Some lions mate over 50 times a day

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Odd Spot #119

A zebra is white with black stripes not black with white stripes

Odd Spot #121

No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver or purple

Odd Spot #123

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call

Odd Spot #128

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 0.1 of a calorie

Odd Spot #132

A typical bed is usually home to over six billion dust mites

Odd Spot #136

Sound at the right vibration frequency can bore holes through a solid object

Odd Spot #151

A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue

Odd Spot #152

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand

Odd Spot #153

The average human body contains enough iron to make a 7.62cm nail

Odd Spot #157

Between the ages of 30 and 70, your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5cm