 | Most lipstick contains fish scales!
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| Skepticisms is the longest word
that alternates hands when typing!
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| One ragweed plant can release as
many as one billion grains of pollen!
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| The first product to have a bar
code was Wrigleys gum!
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| No piece of square dry paper can
be folded more than 7 times in half!
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| A group of geese on the ground is
a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
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| Over 2500 left handed people a
year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
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| There are more than 10 million
bricks in the Empire State Building!
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| If you counted 24 hours a day, it
would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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| Taphephobia is the fear of being
buried alive!
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| A crocodile always grows new teeth
to replace the old teeth!
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| The sun is 330,330 times larger
than the earth!
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| Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
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| A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of
time for 1/100th of a second!
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| Porcupines float in water!
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| Pinocchio is Italian for
"pine eye"!
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| The sentence "The quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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| The average life span of a major
league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
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| The only 15 letter word that can
be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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| The longest recorded flight of a
chicken is 13 seconds!
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| The sloth (a mammal) moves so
slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
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| Cat urine glows under a
black-light!
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| The world's termites outweigh the
world's humans 10 to 1!
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| The electric chair was invented by
a dentist!
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| Windmills always turn
counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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| A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times
a minute on average!
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| Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand! |
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| The placement of a donkey's eyes
in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
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| Human teeth are almost as hard as
rocks!
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| A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet
long in just one night!
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| Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows
made of stone!
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| A hippo can open its mouth wide
enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
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| A quarter has 119 grooves on its
edge, a dime has one less groove!
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| A hummingbird weighs less than a
penny!
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| Until 1796, there was a state in
the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
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| The Earth weighs around
6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
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| A cockroach can live several weeks
with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
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| Every time you lick a stamp,
you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
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| The average person has over 1,460
dreams a year!
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| One in every 4 Americans has
appeared on television!
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| The average American/Canadian will
eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
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| it's against the law to burp, or
sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
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| you're born with 300 bones, but
when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
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| Human thigh bones are stronger
than concrete!
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| 7% of Americans don't know the
first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
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| 5% of Canadians don't know the
first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
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| Over 10,000 birds a year die from
smashing into windows!
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| The state of Florida is bigger
than England!
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| It was once against the law to
have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
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| Your heart beats over 100,000
times a day!
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| Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was
afraid of the dark!
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| During your lifetime, you'll eat
about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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| Some ribbon worms will eat
themselves if they cant find any food!
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| Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
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| The worlds oldest piece of chewing
gum is over 9000 years old!
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| In space, astronauts cannot cry,
because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
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| There are more plastic flamingos
in the U.S, than real ones!
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| About 3000 years ago, most
Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
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| More people use blue toothbrushes,
than red ones!
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| A sneeze travels out your mouth at
over 100 m.p.h.!
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| Your ribs move about 5 million
times a year, every time you breathe!
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| In the White House, there are
13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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| Slugs have 4 noses!
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| Recycling one glass jar, saves
enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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| Lightning strikes about 6,000
times per minute on this planet!
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| Owls are one of the only birds who
can see the color blue!
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| The average American/Canadian
drinks about 600 sodas a year!
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| It was once against the law to
slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
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| There wasn't a single pony in the
Pony Express, just horses!
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| Honeybees have a type of hair on
their eyes!
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| Eskimo ice cream is neither icy,
or creamy!
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| A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
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| In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15
can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
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| The katydid bug hears through
holes in its hind legs!
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| A company in Taiwan makes
dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
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| More Monopoly money is printed in
a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
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| The starfish is one of the only
animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
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| The elephant is the only mammal
that can't jump!
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| The penguin is the only bird who
can swim, but not fly!
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| Q is the only letter in the
alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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| One quarter of the bones in your
body are in your feet!
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| America once issued a 5-cent bill!
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| You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in
a lifetime! Wow!
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| Here are some people with strange
names. (some of these specific facts have not be verified)
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| Ure A. Pigg (Portland, Oregon)!
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| Ima Hogg (Houston, Texas)!
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| Ima June Bugg (Chicago, IL)!
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| Eura Fisch (Charlotte N.C)!
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| Ima Fisch (Charlotte N.C)!
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| menna pause (Indianapolis,indiana!
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| Serious Misconduct (Welwyn,
England)!
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| General Error (Pueblo,
Colorado)!
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| Dr. Safety First (Tulsa,
Oklahoma)!
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| Pearl Harbor (Birmingham,
Alabama)!
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| Honor Roll (Birmingham,
Alabama)!
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| E. Pluribus Eubanks (San
Francisco, CA)!
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| Like fingerprints, everyone's
tongue print is different!
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| There are no words in the
dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers:
orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?,
turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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| Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf
under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
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| Fortune cookies were actually
invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
|
| A man named Charles Osborne had
the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
|
| A giraffe can clean its ears with
its 21-inch tongue!
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| Chewing gum while peeling onions
will keep you from crying!
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| Here are some interesting numbers
to look at! (*1997)
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| 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are
delivered each year in the U.S!
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| 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone
wire a strung across the U.S!
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| 123,000,000 cars are being driven
down the U.S's highways!
|
| 85,000,000 tons of paper are used
each year in the U.S!
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| 56,000,000 people go to Major
League baseball each year!
|
| Bats always turn left when exiting
a cave!
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| The praying mantis is the only
insect that can turn its head!
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| In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs! |
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