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