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Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten. | |
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. | |
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. | |
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. | |
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games. | |
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 | |
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. | |
Most lipstick contains fish scales. | |
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. | |
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S | |
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. | |
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head. | |
Slugs have 4 noses. | |
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. | |
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with 'Midnight Cowboy.' Her entire role lasted only six minutes. | |
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food. | |
Honeybees have hair on their eyes. | |
In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. | |
Camel's milk does not curdle. | |
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. | |
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. | |
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. | |
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. | |
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. | |
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. | |
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. | |
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. | |
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. | |
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. | |
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. | |
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet. | |
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. | |
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. | |
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. | |
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. | |
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. | |
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year. | |
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. | |
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. | |
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. | |
There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S. | |
Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. | |
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. | |
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. | |
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons. | |
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. | |
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles. | |
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. | |
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific. | |
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove | |
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year. | |
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast. | |
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. | |
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. | |
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather. | |
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. | |
In every episode of 'Seinfeld' there is a Superman somewhere. | |
America once issued a 5-cent bill. | |
A jellyfish is 95 percent water. | |
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. | |
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. | |
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily | |
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. | |
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. | |
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. | |
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. | |
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. | |
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. | |
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night. | |
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound. | |
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe. | |
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. | |
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. | |
The first toilet ever seen on television was on 'Leave It To Beaver.' | |
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly. | |
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out. | |
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. | |
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