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- In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- English language.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Starfish haven't got brains.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
- When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
- The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- 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.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
- When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
- Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
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- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
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