Amazing Facts - 24

1. By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year

2. Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%

3. Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates

4. On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

5. The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was "Spud."

6. A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. updated

7. The fastest shark is the "Shortfin Mako," which can swim as fast as sixty miles per hour

8. The flatulation from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methane on this planet

9. Ironically, watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa

10. The first tattoo machine was invented by Samuel O'Reilly. He did this by using equipment that Thomas Edison used to engrave hard surfaces.

11. In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva

12.  A slug has four noses

13. Chili Powder was invented in the 19th century in the American Southwest

14. The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism

15. Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever