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| An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. | |
| Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. | |
| More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. | |
| A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. | |
| It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland. | |
| 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily | |
| Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy. | |
| Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day. | |
| All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. | |
| No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. | |
| Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings. | |
| The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. | |
| Reindeer like to eat bananas. | |
| The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. | |
| Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. | |
| If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow. | |
| The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s. | |
| Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. | |
| A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! | |
| The electric chair was invented by a dentist. | |
| Every person has a unique tongue print. | |
| Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray. | |
| Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games. | |
| The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old. | |
| 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. | |
| In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. | |
| One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet. | |
| During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants. | |
| 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 | |
| There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses. | |
| It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. | |
| 'I am.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. | |
| Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. | |
| The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello. | |
| The longest one-syllable word in the English language is 'screeched.' | |
| Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with 'Midnight Cowboy.' Her entire role lasted only six minutes. | |
| Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. | |
| In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. | |
| 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S. | |
| An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. | |
| Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year. | |
| Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. | |
| Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. | |
| The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred. | |
| A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. | |
| The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times. | |
| A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. | |
| You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime | |
| Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. | |
| In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured. | |
| In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan. | |
| The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. | |
| More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world. | |
| 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. | |
| A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. | |
| The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. | |
| A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. | |
| There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S. | |
| Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. | |
| Non-dairy creamer is flammable. | |
| Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours. | |
| Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. | |
| Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws. | |
| It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!) | |
| Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. | |
| There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. | |
| 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. | |
| The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. | |
| 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways | |
| Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles. | |
| Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue. | |
| Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. | |
| In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. | |
| 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. | |
| Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams. | |
| 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. | |
| There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. | |
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| Most lipstick contains fish scales. | |
| The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. | |
| About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. | |
| An average person laughs about 15 times a day. | |
| There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. | |
| Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning 'containing arsenic.' | |
| You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog. | |
| The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. | |
| The state of Florida is bigger than England. | |
| A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. | |
| Honeybees have hair on their eyes. | |
| The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. | |
| Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. | |
| Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. | |
| In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. | |
| Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. | |
| The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs. | |
| According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying | |
| A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. | |
| The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year. | |
| In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons. | |
| You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather. | |
| Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food. | |
| Giraffes have no vocal cords. | |
| If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away | |
| There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States. | |
| When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. | |
| To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly. | |
| Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. | |
| Almonds are a member of the peach family. | |
| Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. | |
| Dr. Seuss pronounced 'Seuss' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice.' | |
| A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. | |
| A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. | |
| In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' were considered a dirty word. | |
| Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. | |
| Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any state name | |
| 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 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star. | |
| A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. | |
| The first toilet ever seen on television was on 'Leave It To Beaver.' | |
| The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. | |
| You blink over 20,000,000 times a year. | |
| February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. | |
| More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones. | |
| Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. | |
| A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. | |
| Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows | |
| Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. | |
| The only nation whose name begins with an 'A' but doesn't end in an 'A' is Afghanistan. | |
| All porcupines float in water. | |
| A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night. | |
| There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States. | |
| Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. | |
| Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. | |
| There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. | |
| A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. | |
| Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets. | |
| A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate. | |
| A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. | |
| A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there. | |
| Camel's milk does not curdle. | |
| In every episode of 'Seinfeld' there is a Superman somewhere. | |
| The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. | |
| In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak | |
| Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. | |
| A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. | |
| A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. | |
| 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt.' | |
| Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. | |
| Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. | |
| Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet | |
| Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. | |
| If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town. | |
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| Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. | |
| In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. | |
| Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. | |
| The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. | |
| The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people. | |
| Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. | |
| A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. | |
| Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten. | |
| The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. | |
| Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. | |
| Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. | |
| In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. | |
| A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. | |
| A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints. | |
| In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow. | |
| It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland. | |
| You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. | |
| Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. | |
| The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. | |
| Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. | |
| Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland. | |
| In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast. | |
| In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows. | |
| Mosquitoes have teeth. | |
| Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head. | |
| Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. | |
| Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze. | |
| A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. | |
| Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy. | |
| Slugs have 4 noses. | |
| America once issued a 5-cent bill. | |
| Women's hearts beat faster than men's. | |
| Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks. | |
| The average bank teller loses about $250 every year. | |
| Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. | |
| Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. | |
| Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. | |
| Bubble gum contains rubber. | |
| It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska. | |
| A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. | |
| 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. | |
| Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously | |
| 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S | |
| Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego. | |
| Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee. | |
| Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. | |
| The most common name in the world is Mohammed. | |
| Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. | |
| Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. | |
| A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet. | |
| A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove | |
| The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year. | |
| A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow. | |
| The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. | |
| The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night. | |
| Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific. | |
| 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. | |
| 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. | |
| The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. | |
| One in every 4 americans has appeared on television. | |
| 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. | |
| Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. | |
| The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. | |
| Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F. | |
| Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. | |
| In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. | |
| Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. | |
| Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe. | |
| Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. | |
| The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head. | |
| A jellyfish is 95 percent water. | |
| Dolphins sleep with one eye open. | |
| A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. | |
| The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. | |
| It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound. | |
| 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire is strung across the U.S. | |
| In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs. | |
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