Amazing Facts!

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1. The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.

2. Film stars originally wore sunglasses, not to look mysterious, but to relieve their eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights.

3. If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.

4. Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)

5. Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides

6. There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.

7. Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.

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

9. Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal

10. A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.

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1. Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

2. The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.


3. The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.

4. The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.

5. Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.

5. Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.

6. Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.

7. The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.

8. Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.

9. British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.

10. The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.

11. A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.

12. Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.

13. Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.

14. The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.

15. "Hello Kitty" began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.

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1. When in heat, female hippopotami secrete an oil with a flavor similar to strawberries. Kalahari bushmen use the oil to make flat-bread treats for children.
2. If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball.

3. Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.

4. To commemorate ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, U.S. playing card manufacturers replaced "staffs" with "hearts" as the fourth suit in the deck. The world soon followed.

5. In 1960, a then-unknown Dan Rather auditioned for the voice of cartoon character Dudley Do-Right but was turned down by animator/director Jay Ward.

6. When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north.

7. If the current trend continues, by the year 2215 midgets will outnumber "normal-sized" people.

8. Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the average lifespan by nearly two full months.

9. In the late '90s, Microsoft secretly developed its own version of Linux, but shelved it after quality control researchers deemed it "too stable."

10. No NCAA basketball team from a school located in its state's capital has ever won the national championship.

11. The African black rhinoceros excretes its own weight in dung every 48 hours.

12. The top three names for female babies born in China last year were Huan Yue, Jia Li and -- unlikely as it seems -- Buffy.

13. Peter Maas, creator of the character Serpico, got his character's name from an ultra-expensive, highly-prized Malaysian liqueur made from fermented viper venom.

14. Shortly before his execution, Timothy McVeigh constructed a scale model of the Lincoln Memorial with soda crackers.

15. There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an entire winter.

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1. Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.

2. Turtles can breath through their bottoms.

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.

5. Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.

6. When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.

7. Alfred Hitchc*ck's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.

8. The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard.

9. In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000."

10. It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).

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1. The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon.

2. In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.

3. During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.

4. The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign (and I expect town halls too)

5. The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word 6. Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona.

6. The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."

7. Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.

8. Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey.

9. Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet

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1. Strains of bacteria similar to E. coli have been found in spent printer cartridges -- but only in the cyan ones. Scientists have no explanation.

2. The four different people who, at various times, tried -- and failed -- to become the Guinness Book of World Records' "Human Milkshake Volcano" by drinking five gallons of milk and then riding the Six Flags Screaming' Eagle roller coaster all shared the same birthday: September 18, 1970.

3. The Australian aborigine language has over 30 words for "dust."

4. Anyone convicted of animal cruelty in Sedalia, Missouri, is sentenced to a month's confinement in the county animal shelter.

5. Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents before 6 a.m. on Saturdays.

6. A futuristic automobile designed by Ford for the movie Blade Runner was produced and sold in limited quantities as the "Ford Harrison."

7. John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.

8. A bad case of laryngitis forced Abraham Lincoln to lip-sync the Gettysburg Address. The speech was actually delivered by an aide hidden beneath the stage.

9. A prominent organization of anthropologists has predicted that by the year 5000, humans will have two rectums, but only one nostril.

10. For over a decade, the number of drive-by shootings has been directly proportional to increased gas prices.

11. Two-thirds of all the world's coriander comes from a single valley in Italy.

12. As the sheer volume of Internet traffic has increased, the friction of the electrons passing around the planet has increased the overall global temperature by .07 degrees.

13. Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It's actually the shell.

14. A comprehensive multi-year study using pattern-recognition software determined that Millard Fillmore is the most common identifiable U.S. president seen in cloud formations.

15. Baking soda and vinegar will make your scrambled eggs fluffier.

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1. The first prototype defibrillators delivered 1,200 joules of electrical energy instead of the now standard 360, occasionally causing dead bodies to sit upright momentarily as though they were still alive.

2. Ancient Egyptians used molted cobra skins as condoms.

3. Using its anal sphincter muscle, the Mongolian tapir is capable of creating high-pitched tones that can be heard by dogs nearly 30 miles away.

4. Customs officials have dogs that are trained to distinguish between Cuban cigars and all other cigars.

5. Archimedes' screw was the basis for Max Factor's invention of the twisting lipstick holder.

6. A Tokyo inventor has developed a laptop computer whose battery is recharged by energy generated from the movement of the user's mouse, yet Sony lawyers have successfully blocked every attempt to produce a product using the technology.

7. Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night.

8. Ballpoint pens were invented by a Michigan scientist attempting to reduce the number of birds killed for their quills.

9. Glamorous movie star Brad Pitt once had a summer job posting warning signs at coal mine entrances.

10. U.S. Army medics in World War I knew of the germ-fighting properties of rodent saliva and carried hamsters in their medical bags to sterilize wounds in the field.

11. An early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a line by Benjamin Franklin inviting King George to "kisse our collective arse."

12. Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.

13 The sound made when a duck passes gas is the precise acoustic opposite of its quack; if it does both simultaneously, there's no audible sound.

14. Contrary to their popular image as spinsters, the average librarian has 5.9 random sex partners per year.

15. The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.

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1. With the exception of a small 200-square-mile section of Antarctica, every single square kilometer of dry land on the planet has been walked on by at least one human being.

2. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

3. The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

4. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

5. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile thingyes.

6. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

7. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

8. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

9. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

10. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

11. Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

12. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

13. Scuba divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

14. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

15. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

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1. The only food c*ckroaches won't eat are cucumbers.

2. China has more English speakers than the U.S.

3. Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world

4. The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too

5. You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.

6. There are no public toilets in Peru.

7. Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again

8. The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.'

9. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run

10. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end in "mt."

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1. Only a single dissenting vote prevented the death penalty in Texas from being carried out by immersing the convicted person in a nest of fire ants.

2. If you place a fresh Viagra tablet in a houseplant's soil every six months, the plant will not wilt.

3. The ancient Arabic word "jorgbushii" translates roughly to "evil one who comes disguised in peace to drink Earth's black blood."

4. Finland, "Sintter Klaas" brings bad children a small bag of old toenail clippings.

5. The practice of putting a letter "e" in front of words to mean "web-based" (e.g., eBusiness, eLearning, etc.) was patented by Microsoft in 1992. They are waiting until their anti-trust trial has been officially completed to begin enforcing it.

6. The noun "sled" originates from the name of a 18th-century mountaineer from Finland, Schletz Linden, whose body was used by his climbing partner to slide down a mountain during a winter storm after he froze to death.

7. If a cricket were the size of Mount Rushmore, it could jump to the moon.

8. The increase in the amount of metals mined and brought to the surface of the earth in order to manufacture SUVs has caused higher tides in the Northern Hemisphere.

9. Children conceived on airplanes never suffer from motion sickness.

10. The life span of dogs allowed to dine in cat litter boxes is on average 18 percent longer than that of dogs restricted to commercial diets.

11. Charles Darwin once attempted to breed flying monkeys by crossing chimpanzees with vultures.

12. The steady, rhythmic sound produced by dripping water increases the capacity for sleeping males to experience lucid sexual dreams.

13. Blue water in a toilet bowl causes males to urinate 7 percent more.

14. Women who use chewing tobacco are three times LESS likely to accidentally swallow it while they are pregnant.

15. The melody of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace" originated from a 12th-century pagan song celebrating masturbation.

16. The Federal Department of Online Commerce has been compiling a list of US-based e-mail addresses. Once 100 million addresses have been collected, the list will be sold to online marketers as part of President Bush's plan to reduce the deficit.

17. A 9-volt battery contains roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a bowl of Lucky Charms.

18. The Yanomami tribesmen of the Amazon basin can track game birds by the slight difference in warmth their shadows create on the forest floor as they fly by, for up to an hour after the birds have departed.

19. Contrary to the popular saying, 99 percent of the time you lead a horse to water, it'll drink on its own.

20. The first Ford Excursion was actually designed and built in 1951. It was never marketed because the then-current braking technology required a drum 3 feet wide on each wheel.

21. Rapid deforestation has decreased the friction of the surface of the Earth, causing it to spin infinitesimally faster and thereby cool the air, combating global warming.

22. The flush toilet was invented in Flushing, NY.

23. The inner core of most standard golf balls is made of nougat, which helps the balls remain aloft longer.

24. On occasions when the sun is shining brightly on falling snowflakes, they contain enough ionic charge to stun insects. Observation of this phenomenon inspired the invention of the bug zapper.

25. Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.

26. A common misconception is that the term "salsa dancing" derives from the food condiment called salsa. Actually, the dance was invented in the 1930s by a dance teacher named Frankie Salsa.

27. Every common food product, with the exception of fish and veal, contains some traces of peanut enzymes.

28. The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly 666.

29. An 18th-century law still on the books in Vermont makes it illegal for a woman to lick a stamp in a public place.

30. Anthropologists have discovered a tribe of South American monkeys with a rudimentary system of government analogous to our own three-branch form of government.

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1. The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change!

2. The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

3 . Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow

4. Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston

5. The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.

6. Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

7. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

8. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,

9. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

10.American car horns beep in the tone of F.

11. Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects young, strong children.

12. It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.

13. If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.

14. During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that eventually became known as Play-Doh.

15. Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for maintenance for 24 hours. The flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes and spigots built for this purpose in 1837.

16. The rare Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a giant mosquito.

17. Tap dancers frequently forget to breathe normally during difficult routines, resulting in an average of 200 tap dancing-related tragedies per year.

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1. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

2. The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

3. The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

4. You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

5. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

6. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

7. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

8. The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

9. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

10. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

11. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

12. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

13. Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

14. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

15. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

16. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

17. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

18. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

19. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

20. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

21. To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

22. Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

23. A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

24. A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

25. Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

26. Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

27. At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

28. Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

29. If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

30. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during s.e.x greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

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1. Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

2. Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

3. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

4. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

5. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

6. If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

7. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

8. In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

9. Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

10. Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

11. The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

12. Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, salthingyer fish cannot swim backwards.

13. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

14. It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

15. The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

16. The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

17. The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

18. The Mongolian pony is the only animal other than an elephant capable of fending off an attack by a healthy adult tiger.

19. Because of their unusual shape, Hershey's Kisses contain more calories per ounce than the same amount of chocolate in other forms.

20. The French language has seventeen different words for "surrender."

21. The average person can fit exactly one half of their pinky finger in one of their nostrils. However, if an attempt is made to put a pinky finger in EACH nostril, only one quarter of each will fit.

22. Showing off at a party one evening, Chopin played the entire "Minute Waltz" in under 10 seconds.

23. If the air in your car's tires is not completely replaced every two years, it can turn to liquid and cause severe damage.

24. If you tar and feather a 2x4 and place it in your yard, it will ward off bats.

25. The largest home in the United States, North Carolina's Biltmore House, was originally intended to be the official residence of a new monarchy to be established when the South rose again.

26. The Toltec calendar was based on a 360-day year, with each day being about 24 hours and 20 minutes long.

27. The universal size of the credit card is based entirely on the size of the 1960s US Communist Party membership card. Credit cards were designed so that they wouldn't cause the Communist Party card to stand out.

28. Nobody born in Kentucky has ever been elected to Congress.

29. In an effort to improve the nutritional value of its "Shamrock shakes," McDonald's colors them with broccoli extract.

30. Winston Churchill was born with a third nipple, which he removed himself with nail-clippers at the age of 14.

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LITTLE KNOWN FACTS FOR

THE AVERAGE PERSON

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

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

The average man's p e n i s is three times the length of his thumb.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate... they do he same when you are looking at someone you hate!

Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.

You guys are still looking at your thumb, aren't you ?

[OLLY]

thumbs up lin.............. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT YOU SMILE.
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[gortonboy]

goldfish have very good memories,,,,mine know when it is feeding time and are waiting expectently at the end of the tank where i feed them !!! goldfish having 3 second memories is a myth..

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DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN STILL BUY THOSE HORRIBLE TOILET PAPER IZAL.TESCO SELL IT DOWN HERE IN PENZANCE.AND YES FOLKS STILL BUY IT!!ITS A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE IDE SOONER FORGET LOL.

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HI DAVIDEDGE67...WELCOME..YES THEY STILL SELL THAT TOILET PAPER DOWN HERE IN CORNWALL, NOT MANY PLACES SELL IT AND NOT ALL OF THE TIME EITHER.

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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

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

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar', 'kayak', and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" – tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious".

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

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born with kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.