Amazing Facts You Won't Believe: 10 Cool & Interesting Tidbits

The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
The most common language spoken in the world is Mandarin Chinese.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long.
The total weight of all the ants in the world is greater than the weight of all the humans in the world.
The Earth is actually an oblate spheroid, meaning it is slightly wider at the equator than it is from pole to pole.
The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime.
The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.
The driest place on Earth is Antarctica's Atacama Desert.