Victoria’s Read

01/01/2008 (12:58 pm)

Female Facts

Filed under: Female Facts

~Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.

~During pregnancy, the average woman’s uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size

~The term “honeymoon” is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride’s parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding

~Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

~The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day

~Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting

~Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday

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