Thursday, March 22, 2012

Fun Facts

A male baboon can kill a leopard.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
      

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
      
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.


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

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


One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.


The State of Florida is bigger than England.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.


During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.


101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.


12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.


A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.


A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.


A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.


On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.


A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

Monday, March 12, 2012

DIY Glow Orbs

Check out this super fun, and super cheap DIY tutorial on how to make these pretty, outdoors, garden glow orbs!



http://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/glowing-orbs/