amazing facts

• Cockroaches can live up to two weeks without a head because their brain is located throughout their body.
• You can visit half of the world’s 10 largest lakes by visiting a single country: Canada. The five lakes are Great Bear, Great Slave, Erie, Huron, and Superior. 
• The screwdriver was invented before the screw. 
• Humans can lose up to 30% of their total blood volume before going into shock.
• When slicing onions, they release a form of sulfur which when getting to your eyes forms a mild but irritating sulfuric acid which is why your eyes tear up hence diluting it.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Chop suey is not a native Chinese dish; Chinese immigrants created it in California
• The first fielding gloves in baseball were flesh-colored, so that fans wouldn’t notice that the players were wearing them.
• The @ sign was very close to being eliminated from the standard keyboard until 1971, when Ray Tomlinson wrote it into the code used to send the first email.
• Frederick Arthur is one of the best-known names in professional hockey. He’s the Lord Stanley behind the Stanley Cup.
• The antennae sticking out the head of a snail aren’t feelers, but peepers. It’s true- a snail’s eyes are located at the tips of those long stalks.