„Any non-trivial true statement about reality is necessarily an abstraction composed of a complex of objects and properties or relations.For example, the fact described by the true statement "Paris is the capital city of France" implies that there is such a place as Paris, there is such a place as France, there are such things as capital cities, as well as that France has a government, that the government of France has the power to define its capital city, and that the French government has chosen Paris to be the capital, that there is such a thing as a "place" or a "government", etc.. The verifiable accuracy of all of these assertions, if facts themselves, may coincide to create the fact that Paris is the capital of France.
  Difficulties arise, however, in attempting to identify the constituent parts of negative, modal, disjunctive, or moral facts.”
  - WIKIPEDIA

 

The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living

Ordinary Facts

1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
2. 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.
3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S’s highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is “A meaningless existential hell.”
9. 315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.
10. 5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
11. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
12. 7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
13. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
14. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
15. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
19. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
21. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
22. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
23. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
24. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
25. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
26. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there.
27. A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
29. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
36. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
42. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
43. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background — when they say “walla-walla” it looks like they are actually talking.
47. A whale’s penis is called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
49. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
50. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
51. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
52. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
53. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
54. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
55. All porcupines float in water.
56. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
57. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
58. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
59. America’s first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
60. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
61. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
62. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
63. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
64. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
65. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
66. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
67. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
68. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
69. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
70. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
71. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
72. Back in the mid to late 1980′s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
73. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
74. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
76. Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
77. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
78. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
79. Bubble gum contains rubber.
80. Camel’s milk does not curdle.
81. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
82. Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
83. Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
84. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
85. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
86. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
87. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down – hence the expression “to get fired.”
88. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
89. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
90. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader’s lines, and didn’t know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
91. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
92. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
93. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
94. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
95. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
96. Dr. Seuss pronounced “Seuss” such that it rhymed with “rejoice.”
97. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
98. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
99. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
100. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
101. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
102. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
103. Even if you cut off a cockroach’s head, it can live for several weeks.
104. Every person has a unique tongue print.
105. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
106. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
107. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
108. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
109. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
110. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
111. Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio’s newscast about the wreck.
112. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
113. Goethe couldn’t stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
114. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
115. Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
116. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
117. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
118. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
119. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
120. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
121. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
122. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
123. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
124. If you bring a raccoon’s head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
125. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
126. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
127. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
128. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
129. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones – Bhutan.
130. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
131. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
132. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
133. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
134. In England, in the 1880′s, “Pants” were considered a dirty word.
135. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
136. In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman somewhere.
137. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
138. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
139. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
140. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
141. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
142. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
143. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
144. In the movie “Casablanca,” Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.”
145. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
146. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
147. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
148. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
149. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
150. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
151. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
152. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
153. It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
154. It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
155. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don’t try this at home!)
156. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
157. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
158. “Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo.
159. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
160. Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
161. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
162. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
163. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
164. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
165. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom.”
166. 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 original size: “L.A.”
167. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
168. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
169. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
170. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
171. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
172. Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
173. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
174. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
175. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
176. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
177. Mosquitoes have teeth.
178. Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
179. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
180. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
181. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
182. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
183. Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
184. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
185. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
186. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
187. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
188. 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.
189. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
190. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930′s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
191. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
192. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
193. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
194. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
195. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
196. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
197. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
198. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
199. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
200. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
201. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
202. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
203. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
204. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
205. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
206. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
207. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
208. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
209. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
210. Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
211. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
212. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
213. Slugs have 4 noses.
214. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
215. Some toothpaste’s contain antifreeze.
216. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
217. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
218. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
219. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with “Midnight Cowboy.” Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
220. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
221. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the “American Pie.” (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
222. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
223. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
224. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
225. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
226. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
227. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
228. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
229. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
230. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.
231. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.
232. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
233. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
234. 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”.
235. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
236. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
237. The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the early 1500s.
238. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
239. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
240. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
241. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
242. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
243. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
244. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
245. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
246. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
247. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
248. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
249. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
250. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
251. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
252. The “L.L.” in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
253. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
254. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
255. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
256. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
257. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
258. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth’s surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
259. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
260. 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.”
261. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
262. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
263. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
264. The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.
265. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
266. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
267. The only nation whose name begins with an “A” but doesn’t end in an “A” is Afghanistan.
268. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
269. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

270. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
271. The phrase, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye” is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, “No eye gouging.” Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone’s eye out.
272. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
273. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
274. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
275. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
276. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
277. The Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows.”
278. The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
279. The saying “it’s so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey” came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off… thus the saying.
280. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
281. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.
282. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
283. The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”
284. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
285. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
286. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
287. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
288. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
289. The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.
290. The word “modem” is a contraction of the words “modulate, demodulate.” (MOdulate DEModulate)
291. The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”
292. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
293. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
294. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
295. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
296. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
297. There are more chickens than people in the world.
298. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
299. There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
300. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
301. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
302. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
303. There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
304. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
305. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
306. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs — it will let you go instantly.
307. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
308. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
309. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
310. When opossums are playing ‘possum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.
311. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
312. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
313. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
314. Who’s that playing the piano on the “Mad About You” theme? Paul Reiser himself.
315. Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble’s Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
316. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
317. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
318. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
319. You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
320. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
321. You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
322. You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
323. You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
324. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
325. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
326. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
327. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

 

 

“History is written by the winners”.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades–King David, Clubs–Alexander the Great, Hearts–Charlemagne and Diamonds–Julius Caesar.
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. Told that this was an urban legend. In fact, several parts of the German and later the Swiss Autobahn system were indeed designed to be auxiliary military airports.
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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
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The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
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Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
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The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; ’7′ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles
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Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’, after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
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Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
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Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know your there
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The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
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It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
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In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
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It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term ‘drowning’ refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
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The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
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Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
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During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
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Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
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Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
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Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
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The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a ‘motor’ only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
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Henry Ford produced the model T mostly in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry. Model T was available in other colors. The British factory for model T started producing them in Green as mentioned by the British Show QI.
At – 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
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Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘-dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
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Less than 3% of Nestlé’s sales are for chocolate.
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The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
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More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
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It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk
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The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
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Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China’s leading cause of death.
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The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
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The X’s that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000′s when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
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Nova Scotia is Latin for ‘New Scotland.’
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The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
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Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word ‘gadzooks’.
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Only 2 blue moons (the saying ‘only once in a blue moon ‘ refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
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“Naked” means to be unprotected. “Nude” means unclothed
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Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’, because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, ‘lower case’ letters
In the 40′s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘Bitch.’

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From the book “Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose” by Joey Green.
Copyright 1995. Reprinted with permission.
For more alternative uses for products, visit www.wackyuses.com

I highly recommend visiting his Joey’s site

BOUNCE…the stuff you use in your dryer:

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IT…………. Repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.
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Eliminates static electricity from your television screen.
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Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
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Dissolves soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a used sheet of Bounce.
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Freshens the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang one in the closet.
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Prevents thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce to eliminate the static cling on the thread before sewing.
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Eliminates static cling from pantyhose. Rub a damp, used sheet of Bounce over the hose.
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Prevents musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
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Freshens the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front sea
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Cleans baked-on food from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in the pan, fill with water, let sit overnight and sponge clean. The anti-static agents apparently weaken the bond between the food and the pan while the fabric softening agents soften the baked-on food.
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Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket. Collects cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.
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Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
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Wipes up sawdust from drilling or sandpapering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
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Eliminates odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper
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Deodorizes shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight so they’ll smell great in the morning.

COCA COLA

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Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl, Let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean
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The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
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To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca Cola.
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To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
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To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. These were debunked by Mythbusters
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To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.
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It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

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Lincoln and Kennedy

Here’s a little part of US history which makes you go h-m-m-m:
Have a history teacher explain this if they can?

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! in 1839. I was corrected on this and he was born on 1838
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named ‘Kennedy.’ I was corrected on this and the theater was named Ford at the time of the assassination. Thanks H.!
Kennedy was shot in a car called ‘Lincoln.’
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here’s the kicker…
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Interesting Fact about the Pope John Paul II death

Pope was living 85 years – sum of those numbers = 13

Pope died on 2.04.2005 – sum of those numbers = 13

Pope died at 21.37 – again – sum is equal…. 13

13…that’s Maria’s number – only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima

on 13th May 1981 – Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother

on 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time

on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up

Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37.. add all those numbers….

2+4+2+5 = 13

2+1+3+7 = 13

13+13=26

26 years of pontificate……

Coincidence? or it had to be like this?

in the end……he died in 13th week of the year…and when you multiply the time of his death 21 x 37…you will have 777

Pope was living exactly 31 thousands days…if you reverse

figures…you will get again 13!!!

World Cup

Brazil last won the world cup in 1994. Before that they won it in 1970. Add 1970 and 1994, it equals 3964.

Germany last won in 1990. Before that they won in 1974. Add 1990 and 1974, it equals 3964.

Argentina last won the world cup in 1986. Before that they won it in 1978. Add 1978 and 1986, it equals 3964.

So going by this logic, The winner of the 2002 world cup is the same as the 3964 – 2002 = 1962 world cup. The 1962 world cup was won by Brazil. It was really Brazil who won!!!

Importance of Drinking Enough Water

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75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
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In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is
often mistaken for hunger.
3.

Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%.
4.

One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
5.

Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6.

Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7.

A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
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Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Here is a list of what I thought very funny. I left it in the form that I received it.

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)
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If you farted consisten *

tently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that’s more like it!)
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)
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A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I’m still not over the pig.)
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home…… maybe at work.)
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The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off. (“Honey, I’m home. What the….?!”)
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A mantis breeder has assured me that you preying mantis can copulate with the male’s head still attached, even several times.
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The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes…lucky pig… can you imagine??)
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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
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Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life…quality over quantity)
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Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm……..won’t go there.)
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Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing….)
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A cat’s urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
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Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
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Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they’ll live a lot longer.)
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig??)

 

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• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11′s lunar module landed on the moon.
• The ‘You are here’ arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
• MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles.
• At – 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
• Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. The skin recedes, making it appear to grow.
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
• The cockroach dies from radiation and would not survive a nuclear war.
• In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a pipe.
• About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.
• Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.
• Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
• 35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
• Dolphins don’t automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.

•The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
• Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the
soil.
• Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.
• Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
• Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
• Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn’t actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn’t like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck.

• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn’t wear pants.
• From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received “real” replacement statues.

• The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his “outstanding comic creation,” his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.

• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
• Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
• Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.

 

Measurements

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
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The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
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“Jaws” is the most common name for a goldfish.
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On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
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Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
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Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
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On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
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Blue and white are the most common school colors.
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Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
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In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
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A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
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America’s best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
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Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
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Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
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The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
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The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
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The doorbell was invented in 1831.
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The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
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Japan is the largest exporter of frog’s legs.
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There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown.
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Napoleon was terrified of cats.
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The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
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The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
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The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
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The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
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Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
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The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
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The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
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France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
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Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit
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The snake can see through its transparent eye lids when they are closed
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A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows
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Europeans in the Middle Ages used to call coffee the “Arabic Wine”
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Honeybees have hair on their eyes
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The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
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The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
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George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
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Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
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The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
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Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
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The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
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The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
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The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
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Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
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Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
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The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
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Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
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Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
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Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
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If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
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Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
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Nondairy creamer is flammable.
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The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
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If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
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The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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It’s rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel proved this wrong.
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The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
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The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”
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Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
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When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
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Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
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When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” being played on the radio.
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The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
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The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson’s day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
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The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
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At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
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The world’s record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
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The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
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You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
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Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers’ names.
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In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
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By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
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The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
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More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
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Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
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A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
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Whales die if their echo system fails.
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Florida’s beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
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Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
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It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
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Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
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Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
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In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
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America once issued a 5-cent bill.
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The only vehicle legally allowed to pass a funeral procession is a government owned vehicle: a mail truck.
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The average person can live 11 days without water.
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In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour. The order came after her husband killing. (Moguls claim that 1.7 million were killed)
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There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
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In 1800 only 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
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More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
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King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia–fear of cats.
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Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
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Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
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The motto of the American people, “In God We Trust,” was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet. The ampersand (&) did not use to be a letter of the English alphabet – it was the last letter of the Latin alphabet
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The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
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There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
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During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
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The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a friend: The Hawai’ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ‘ (which is called an okina).
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Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
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The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
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City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
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State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness–28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness–38%.
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Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
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Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
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Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%.
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Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
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Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
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Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
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The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for “Profiles in Courage.”
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The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
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Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
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First novel ever written on a typewriter: “Tom Sawyer.”
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A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show “Mythbusters”)
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The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Inventorium

* No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
* Blueberry juice boosts memory
* When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut
* The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
* Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
* Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
* The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only. (Please don’t send me corrections to add the penis; the penis is not a muscle).
* Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss
* Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches
* Coffee drinkers have more sex than non-coffee drinkers. They also enjoy it more.
* The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland and tails for Boston.
* A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day
* No president of the United States was an only child for his parents
* Pumice is the only rock that floats in water
* The African cicada fly spends 17 years sleeping, then wakes up for two weeks, mates and then die.
* Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah, the lowest.
* 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
* 250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.
* During good sex, endorphins are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex
* The shrimp’s heart is in its head
* George Washington didn’t want his image on US coins. He didn’t want to imitate European monarchs.
* According to a Kinsey survey, 75% of men ejaculate within three minutes after penetration
* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Another one that was proven wrong by Mythbusters.
* Your foot is the same length as your forearm
* In the US, Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza a day
* If you plug your nose you can’t hum.
* On average, a woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart
* Names in Iceland’s phone books are listed alphabetically by first name not by last name
* Cats can hear ultrasound
* The skin of the average woman weighs 3 kilograms, while that of the average man weighs 5 kilograms
* Dutch, on average are the tallest people
* Kissing is healthier than shaking hands
* There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA (excluding the federal National Cemetery at Lincoln Way)
* Married men tip better than unmarried men
* India never invaded any country in her history
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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In Scotland, people throw stinking crud like eggs and sauces on their brides. That was apparently not true, thanks for those who pointed this out. Scottish throw confetti like many how it is in many countries. In some other countries, they throw rice.
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Natural pearls melt in vinegar
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Licorice (or liquorice) and avocado are among the food that sets the mood for love making
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An olive tree can live up to 1500 years
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The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of “F”
* Cleopatra married two of her brothers
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
* Buttermilk does not contain any butter
* Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen
* The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight
* A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds. I was corrected on that by a friend who stated that : The goldfish has a memory of 3-months instead of 3 seconds. Also provided: Goldfish “can be trained to memorize mazes for up to one month, and can be trained to press levers for food, even at a specific time of day. The sale of fishbowls (due to their inability to provide sufficient oxygen and the possibility that they may stunt growth) have been banned in some countries”
* There are 86,400 seconds in day
* The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515
* Ants never sleep
* The human brain is 80% water
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. Was corrected about that, it is actually a Canadian flag.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. I was corrected about “orange” by a friend: ((taken from an episode of Stephen Fry’s QI show) Blorange – is a place in Wales. Also: Gorringe – is a common English surname of many, amongst whom there was Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, the guy who brought Cleopatra’s Needle to NY Central Park!
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. She actually had a normal set of 10. The mistake was caused by a clump of sand on her feet during a photo shoot when she was known as Norma Jeane.
* If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
* The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
* ‘Jedi’ is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers
* Church of England has apologized to Charles Darwin 200 years after his birth
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears
* Dalmatians are born without spots
* Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left
* Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room
* Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
* In 2009 one of eight newly married couples in the US met online
* There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing
* Gamblers mostly don’t see any clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
* If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you likely to chew food on your left side
* The bedroom is the most common place for sex and the car is second
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Humans and bonobo monkeys (pygmy chimpanzee) are the only species who have face-to-face sex
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Everyday, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide
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Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms
* Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension
* A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly
* Worldwide, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men
* The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
* Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
* The French tickler was invented by a Tibetan monk
* Studies have proven that it is harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive
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Onions have no flavor, only a smell
* Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles
* One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet
* Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed (paw).
* Polar bears with transparent, fluffy fur actually have black skin
* Some kinds of sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world; most other kinds of sharks give live birth.
* The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away
* The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers in the US
* The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time
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The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.
* The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
* Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
* Cold showers stimulate your sex drive
* Coffee beans aren’t beans; they are fruit pits
* It is not allowed to have living US presidents featured on US currency
* Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell
* A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes
* Lima beans contain cyanide
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America (not China), in 1918, by Charles Jung
* If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously
* Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. No longer on the list as of 2004.
* Some in Japan bath in coffee grounds that were fermented with pineapple pulp to improve their skin and reduce wrinkles
* Some kinds of frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living
* A snail can sleep for three years
* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
* In Korea and other East Asian countries, the age of the person is counted from conception and not physical birth
* Dogs have about 10 vocal sounds; cats have over 100
* The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut
* There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt
* The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit
* The state official motto of Alaska is ” North to the Future”
* People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers
* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies
* Orgies were originally religious events. They were originally offerings to the gods
* 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover
* It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
* A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28
* Human eye detects 10 million colors
* The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king (shah) is dead (mat).”
* Kissing helps prevent tooth decay
* One California law states that sunshine is guaranteed to all people
* Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour
* Your thumb is the same length as your nose
* Butterflies smell with their feet
* Canada is the westernized version of “Kanata” which is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”
* An egg laden goldfish is called a twit
* In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands
* In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named.
* Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
* Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states
* Horses can’t vomit and pigs can’t look up in the sky
* In1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament
* The oldest dog died at the age of 29
* Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
* Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
* In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
* San Jose was the original capital of California
* Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
* 5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world’s prisons population are held in the US.
* All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
* Women are more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are
* The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley’s gum.
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Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
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A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
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The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
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Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
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250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S
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You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
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Honeybees never sleep
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Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
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Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald
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5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world’s prisons population are held in the US
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80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
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Horses can’t vomit and pigs can’t look up in the sky
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San Jose was the original capital of California
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Most lipstick have fish scales
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In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
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Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
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Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
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The oldest dog died at the age of 29
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Tamiflu’s main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
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Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
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The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
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Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre. The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
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Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
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Both men and women can be turned on by the aromas of wine
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The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
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Earthworms have five hearts
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The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
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Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.
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Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
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Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
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If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book “Historia de duobos amantibus” in 1444.
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SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
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Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like “baby-talk in Portuguese”.
* As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
* Two phone books with their pages interlaced require more than 8000 pounds of pressure to separte.
* Urban birds have developed a short, fast “rap style” of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
* The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
* Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
* The Pope’s been known to wear red Prada shoes.
* Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
* Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
* Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
* In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
* Ghandi didn’t allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
* Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
* As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
* More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
* The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
* Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
* Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
* Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
* For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
* Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children
* Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
* The more panels a football has – and therefore the more seams – the easier it is to control in the air.
* Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips
* Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
* The egg came first.
* Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing “less problematic behavior” involving sex, drugs and drink.
* Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it’s cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
* In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
* The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
* Camel’s milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow’s milk.
* Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
* Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
* The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
* The brain is soft and gelatinous – its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
* The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.
* A “lost world” exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
* The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
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All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
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Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
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The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
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The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
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The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people) This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
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Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\’t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
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Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
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The US national anthem actually has four verses, but everyone just knows the first one. When the whole anthem is sung, the third verse is usually omitted.
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During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
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During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
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The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946 (Thanks D.B. of AU)
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The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
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The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
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Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
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Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
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The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
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Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
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There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
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Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to plants.
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In some Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (Filipinos and people from near by Asian countries have their individual names first and surnames last)
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Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
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A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
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Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
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The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
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The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named “El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula”
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9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn’t true; Joseph Swan did.
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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
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The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
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Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “e.”
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Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any most other countries. Locals in Japan might also get offended if you leave a tip.
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The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
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The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
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Pinocchio was made of pine.
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Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
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A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
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New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
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There was once a town in West Virginia called “6.”
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The parking meter was invented in North Dakota Oklahoma City.
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Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
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Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
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The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
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Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
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Interesting Stuffs

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

 

Agriculture

* People might eat oats when they’re hungry, but people from Hungary don’t eat oats.
* What is in a name? More than 90% of people in Bhutan, Burundi and Burkina Faso are involved in agriculture.
* Iceland has many, many more tractors per 1000 hectares of cropland than any other nation – more than twice that of the next highest country, Slovenia.
* Costa Rica leads the world in per capita exports of bananas, cassava, melons, and pineapples to the United States. Unsuprisingly, they’re also first in pesticide use.

Crime

* You’re 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA than in France
* If you’re in Montserrat, watch your back! Nearly 1% of the population are police officers.
* Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.
* Two-thirds of the world’s executions occur in China.
* America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.
* Two-thirds of the world’s kidnappings occur in Colombia.
* Venezuela is one of the happiest and most murderous places in the world.
* Russia has almost twice as many judges and magistrates as the United States. Meanwhile, the United States has 8 times as much crime.
* In the Maldives, there are more than 2 jails for every 1000 people.
* One in every three Australians is a victim of crime.
* Saudi diplomats have 367 unpaid parking fines in Britain.
* In pure number terms, more crimes are committed in America than in any other nation. The same goes for burglaries, car thefts, rapes and assaults.
* The United States puts 0.7 % of its population in Prison – a vastly higher percentage than any other nation.
* India’s criminal courts acquitted over a million defendants in 1999, more than the next 48 surveyed countries combined.
* Women make up more than 10% of the prison population in only six countries: Thailand, , Qatar, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Singapore.
* People trust Swedes! Swedish companies are the world’s least-likely to be perceived as paying bribes.
* 84% of people in Finland feel that they are at a low risk of experiencing a burglary – but just look at how many burglaries they have!

Currency

* ‘Dollar’ is the most common currency name, followed by ‘franc,’ ‘pound,’ ‘dinar,’ ‘peso,’ and ‘rupee.’

Democracy

* You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt – at least in theory.
* In the last Argentinian elections, 21% of the votes were declared invalid.
* In Belgium, 55% of government ministers are female. The country’s first female parliamentarian was appointed in 1921.

Economy

* Most people live in poverty in most African countries.
* The top nations for per capita imports and exports tend to be very small.
* The eight most developed countries all speak Germanic languages.
* 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
* 41% world’s poor people live in India.
* The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
* Americans are 15% more innovative than the Japanese. But in percentage terms, the Japanese grant 3.5 times more patents.
* United we stand? The United Kingdom and United States are both in the top ten for Gross Domestic Product – and for child poverty.
* Three of the top ten countries for GDP per capita are island nations: Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and Iceland.
* France is the top destination in the world for tourists, accounting for 11 percent of all tourist arrivals worldwide.
* The top ten tourist destinations France, Spain, USA, Italy, China, UK, Austria, Mexico, Germany and Canada account for 49.6 percent of all tourist arrivals worldwide.
* The number of tourists in San Marino is almost 19 times the resident population.

Education

* Want your kids to stay in school? Send them to Norway.
* English speaking kids are the world’s biggest novel readers – but the least enthusiastic comic readers.
* Japanese and South Korean kids are the best in the world at science and maths.
* Three quarters of Japanese kids read comics.
* American adults have spent more time than anyone in education .
* There are 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate. Fifteen of them are in Africa.
* The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation’s university degrees.
* More than half of Indonesia’s primary school teachers are under 30years of age .
* Thinking of becoming a teacher? Head to Switzerland. Teaching salaries there start at $US 33,000.
* Kids in Mali spend only 2 years in school. More than half of them start working between the ages of 10 and 14.
* Teachers make up 7.8 percent of Iceland’s labor force – and they only have to teach 38 weeks per year.
* Central European men don’t teach. In Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, over 75 percent of lower secondary teachers are female.

Energy

* Qataris have lots and lots of gas.
* Japan has 53 working nuclear reactors and is planning to build another 12.
* The top 10 countries for electricity generation using a nuclear energy source are all in Europe.

Environment

* Almost half of Ecuador is subject to environmental protection.
* Japan’s water has a very high dissolved oxygen concentration – but not enough to prevent drowning in the bath.
* Indonesia contains the most known mammal species – and the most mammal species under threat.
* The total area of Australia’s coral reefs is greater than the total area of any of 130 individual countries, including Slovakia, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Singapore, and Rwanda.
* There are more known reptile species in Australia than in all other listed countries combined.

Food

* The United States has the world’s highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita. Americans also die of obesity more often than any other nation, with more deaths than Mexico, Germany, Spain, Austria and Canada combined.
* Norwegians drink 10.7 kilograms of coffee per person each year. They also lead the globe in anxiety disorders. Maybe it’s time to switch to herbal tea.
* Americans consume the sixth-most spirits, the eighth-most beer and the 18th-most wine. They’re also likely to view heavy drinkers as undesirable neighbors.
* Norwegians consume more than 15 times as much coffee per person as the Irish.
* The average person in the United Kingdom drinks as much tea as 23 Italians.

Geography

* Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth, with 3.7 metres of rain a year.
* Clipperton Island wins our prize for the most unusual looking country.
* Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
* Sick of crowds? Move to Greenland! Greenlanders have 38 square kilometres of land per person.
* If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again – its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as “barren rock”.
* The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
* The four largest nations are Russia, China, USA, and Canada.
* Brazil takes up 47.8% of South America.
* Canada lays claim to more water than any other nation.
* Almost the entire Cook Islands are covered by forest.
* Contrary to the popular rhyme, the rain falls mainly on Guinea.
* Australia has more than 28 times the land area of New Zealand, but its coastline is not even twice as long.

Government

* Got a parking ticket in Finland? Better just pay up – it is the least corrupt nation in the world.
* Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
* Nauru, Tokelau and Western Sahara are the only three countries without official capital cities.
* Nauru is the world’s smallest independent republic.

Health

* Most Zambians don’t live to see their 40th birthday.
* On the probability of not reaching 40 graph, the top 34 countries are all African.
* In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.
* The average woman in New Zealand doesn’t give birth until she is nearly 30 years old.
* Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
* 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
* In Ethiopia, nine out of ten births occur without skilled health staff present.
* The United States tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
* Sick people is Switzerland stay in hospital for longer than the people of any other nation – almost 10 days, on average. Switzerland also has the world’s highest number of hospital beds per capita.
* Only 4% of married women in Chad are using contraceptives.
* More than half of all doctors in Finland are female.
* One in three Italian babies is born by caesarean section.

Identification

* Libya is the only country with a single-coloured flag.
* NationMaster.com is now 40 times the size of the CIA World Factbook!
* Nepal’s flag isn’t square or rectangular. It’s a double triangle.
* Peru’s national bird is the Andean cock of the rock (Rupicola peruviana).
* Libya’s full name is the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
* Of the eight countries which include the word “democratic” in their conventional long form name, three are dictatorships: North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) and the Democratic republic of the Congo.

Immigration

* The top five countries of origin for refugees are all in Africa.
* Canada is immigrant-friendly. It confers the most new citizenships per capita and per $ GDP, and the second-most new citizenships overall.
* Apparently, the Federated States of Micronesia is the place to leave – and Afghanistan is the place to go.
* Want to go to the United States? Try going to Albania first. Albania has more U.S visa lottery winners per capita than anywhere else in the world.

Industry

* In 2002, every 1000 Swedes made a bus.
* Japan leads the world in car production, producing almost 50% more cars than either of its next closest competitors, Germany and the United States

Internet

* Around 80% of all livejournal users are from the United States of America.

Labor

* Guatamalan women work 11.5 hours a day, while South African men work only 4.5.
* Kenyan women work 35% longer than their menfolk.
* Ethiopians are by far the most agricultural people on earth (both men and women)
* Looking for Czech and Slovak men? Half are in factories.
* Women are flooding into the workforce in many Muslim countries.
* American women have the most powerful jobs.
* Southern European women hugely outnumber their menfolk amongst the unemployed.
* Danish workers strike 150 times more than their German neighbours.
* More than a third of the time, Icelanders don’t show up for work. Perhaps that’s why they’re the world’s happiest nation.
* In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef – one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator for it.
* If you are looking for work, just go to the Falkland Islands! They have full employment and a labor shortage.
* 61.5% of Swedes work more than 40 hours per week, but just across the border in Norway only 15.8% of people work this long.

Language

* Houses in English-speaking countries have the most rooms.

Lifestyle

* 62% of Bulgarians describe themselves as either ‘not very’ or ‘not at all’ happy.
* The fourteen unhappiest countries are all in Eastern Europe.
* 22% of New Zealanders have used cannabis.
* Australians are the most likely to join charities, educational organizations, environmental groups, professional organizations, sports groups and unions. But only three percent join political parties.
* Australians lead the world in hours worked and membership in many voluntary organizations. How do they find the energy?
* The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
* In all the countries surveyed, women do more housework than men.
* Canadians drink more fruit juice than the citizens of any other nation – more than one litre each, every week.

Media

* Andorra has no unemployment, which is just as well because they have no broadcast TV channels either. What would everyone watch?
* China has the most workers, so it’s a good thing they’ve also got the most TV’s.
* Indians go out to the movies 3 billion times a year – much more than any other nation.
* The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
* Americans and Icelanders go to the cinema 5 times a year, on average. The average Japanese person goes only once.
* The United States has the most money, airports, radios and Internet Service Providers.
* Malaysia has the lowest rate of cinema attendance in the world.
* A three-minute local phone call in Ecuador costs 60 U.S. cents, 60 times as much as in Ukraine, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, or Uzbekistan.
* Taiwan and Luxembourg are the only countries in the world where the mobile phones outnumber the people!

Military

* Israel enjoys a GDP per capita 21 times that of the Palestinian West Bank and 33 times that of the Gaza Strip. Its military spending per capita tops the world.
* North Korea spends the most of its GDP on its military.
* The United States spends more money on its military than the next 12 nations combined.
* In the 1990′s, nearly half of all arms exported to developing countries came from the United States of America.
* If you’re looking to invade someone by sea, try Canada! Canada has only 9000 Navy personnel guarding the longest national coastline in the world.
* Bolivia has 4,500 Navy personnel – which seems like quite a lot for a landlocked country.

Mortality

* Moldova has one of the smallest artillery forces in Europe, and the highest rate in the world of death by powered lawnmower. Coincidence? Surely not.
* On average, more than 70 persons die of varicose veins per year per country.
* If someone you know died from falling out of a tree, you’re probably Brazilian.
* You are more likely to be reported as having been killed by lightning in Cuba than in any other country.

People

* Andorrans live the longest, four years longer than in neighbouring France and Spain.
* China’s labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined
* Luxembourgers are the world’s richest people – and also the most generous.
* If you like kids, then Uganda might be the place for you. Half the population is under 15!
* Senior gentlemen might consider a trip to Russia, where there are two women over 65 for every man.
* Single guys should check out The Virgin Islands, where the women outnumber the men.
* South America is unusual in that it is both highly urbanized and poor.
* Many Americans live alone – the United States leads the world in one person households.
* Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country.
* Looking for geniuses? Head straight to Iceland. There are more than 3 Nobel Prize Winners for every million Icelanders.
* Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world – and the highest rate of female suicide.
* Australians have a huge 380,000 sq m of land per person – and yet 91% live in urban areas.
* Nearly a quarter of people in Monaco are over 65.
* The United States has the world’s highest marriage rate – as well as the world’s highest divorce rate.
* If you’re Dutch or Swedish, you’re among the world’s most likely to end up living in a retirement home. If you’re Japanese, you’ll probably end up living with your children.
* Of all the nations of the world, China has the most people. But there are 71 nations that are more crowded.
* Most households in Europe and North America contain fewer than three people.
* Like living in cities? Guadeloupe, Nauru, Monaco, Singapore, Gibraltar and Bermuda are only nations that are 100% urbanised.
* There are 11 countries where the average woman has more than six children. Ten of them are in Africa.

Religion

* Mexico has the most Jehovah’s Witnesses per capita in the OECD.
* At least 9 out 10 Nigerians attend church regularly. Only 4 out of 10 Americans claim to do so.

Sports

* Finns are perhaps the world’s greatest athletes, ranking first in medals per capita for Summer Olympics, and third for Winter Olympics.
* Russia won the first World Air Games, held in Turkey in 1997. Events included hang-gliding, sky-surfing, and ballooning.

Taxation

* Don’t start a company in Australia. More than 20% of the tax collected in Australia is corporate income tax.
* In Denmark, more than 50% of the tax collected is personal income tax. In the Netherlands, personal income tax makes up less than 15%.
* People in Germany, Belgium, Hungary and Sweden have to pay almost half their salaries in tax.
* Tax makes up half of the of Gross Domestic Product in Denmark and Sweden. In Japan and the United States, it makes up less than 30%.

Transportation

* Brazil is the heliport capital of the world.
* In Australia, there’s plenty of open road. Which is just as well, because you wouldn’t want to park your car.
* American planes take-off a staggering 8.5 million times per year – almost half the number of take-offs worldwide.
* More than a third of the world’s airports are in the United States of America.
* In Germany and Italy, every second person owns a car.
* The Pitcairn Islands have the world’s shortest highway system, with only 6.4 kilometers of road. They also have the fourth-fewest main phone lines.
* About one-quarter of all nations drive on the left-hand-side of the road. Most of them are former British colonies.
* Train spotters should go to Australia – Australians have more railway per capita than anyone else on the globe.

 

40 Interesting Facts

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

3. ‘Jedi’ is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

4. According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!

5. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

6. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

7. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

9. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

10. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.

15. When a giraffe’s baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

17. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

18. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

19. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

20. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined!

21. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

22. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

23. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

24. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

25. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

26. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

27. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

28. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

29. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

30. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

31. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!

32. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

33. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!

34. The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

35. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

36. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

37. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!

38. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

39. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

40. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

No offence !

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it)

2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that’s more like it)

3. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

(In my next life I want to be a pig)

(How’d they figure this out, and why?)

4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Still can’t get over that pig thing)

(Don’t try this at home…maybe at work?)

5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

(And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn’t seem fair)

6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmmmmm……..)

7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

(If you’re ambidextrous do you split the difference?)

8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

(From drinking little bottles of…?)

(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)

9. Polar bears are left handed.

(Who knew….? Who cares? How’d they find out, did they ask them?)

10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)

11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes…can you imagine?? And why pigs?)

12. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.

(Creepy)

13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.

(Honey, I’m home. What the….)

(Well, at least pigs get a break there…)

14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(In my next life I still want to be a pig … quality over quantity)

15. Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Oh, Geez) (That’s almost as bad as catfish)

16. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

(I know some people like that.)

17. Starfish don’t have brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Interesting Facts II

1. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)

19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

21. Pearls melt in vinegar.

22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

25. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why. (Or does it?http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)

26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word ‘criminal.’ The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

29. Butterflies taste with their feet.

30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

34. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

37. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you?http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpghttp://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)

38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

39. A snail can sleep for three years.

40. No word in the English language rhymes with ‘MONTH.’

41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

44. All polar bears are left handed.

45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

46. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

48. ‘Go’, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

Inventorium of Traces

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish don’t have brains. (I know some people like this, too.)

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its own weight.

Polar bears are left handed.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of six football fields.

A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Pearls melt in vinegar. (and wine)

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the “American Pie.” (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David; Clubs – Alexander the Great; Hearts – Charlemagne; and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down-hence the expression “to get fired.”

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt. (Actually, I’d heard that it was because of the sound the machine makes everytime it shoots out a block of kisses; it’s a smacking sound like an exaggerated kiss.)

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

The man who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929. “7 ” was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP ” indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

American car horns beep in the tone of F. (Then why do some sound high and others low?)

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. (Wrong. I just did it by taping five sheets of tissue paper together and folding them eight times. I think what they’re talking about is that you can’t get a sharp crease… which I couldn’t.)

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are 50 years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. (This could be fixed… what if Nike doesn’t have a factory in Malaysia?)

Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal” The second? William Jefferson Clinton. (It would be fun to see what other words can be found in other president’s names: obscenities, different names, expressions for the devil? This really isn’t fair because most people have enough letters in their three names to make out something negative.)

ONE-LINERS!!!

The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in school was my blood alcohol content.

Marriage changes passion…suddenly you’re in bed with a relative.

I don’t do drugs anymore ’cause I find I get the same effect just standing up fast.

I have my own little world. But it’s OK…they know me here.

Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

I don’t approve of political jokes…I’ve seen too many of them get elected.

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.

I married my wife for her looks…but not the ones she’s been giving me lately!

If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

Why is it that most nudists are people you don’t want to see naked?

Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom’s wise words: “Don’t pick that up, you don’t know where it’s been!”

Profundities:

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they use to.

According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about a women are their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they’re a bunch of liars.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

Doctors can be frustrating. You wait a month-and-a-half for an appointment, and he says, “I wish you’d come to me sooner.”

…It’s great to be a man? Because:

Your last name stays put.

You never have to use hot wax.

The garage is all yours.

Wedding plans take care of themselves.

Chocolate is just another snack.

You can be president.

You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.

Car mechanics tell you the truth.

You don’t couldn’t care less if someone notices your new haircut.

You can open all your own jars.

You never have to drive to another gas station because this ones just too icky.

Same work…more pay.

Wrinkles add character.

Wedding Dress $5,000; Tux rental $100.

People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.

New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet.

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.

You can leave the motel bed unmade.

You can kill your own food.

You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.

If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.

Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.

You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.

Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.

You can quietly watch a game with your buddy for hours without ever thinking: “He must be mad at me.”

You can drop by to see a friend without having to bring little gift. If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you just might become lifelong friends.

You are not expected to know the names of more than five colors.

You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.

You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.

The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.

You don’t have to shave below your neck.

One wallet and one pair of shoes, one color, all seasons.

You can do your nails with a pocketknife.