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Did you know........ * The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. * The government will not allow coco beans to be sold in the USA if it contains more than 8 cockroaches per pound. * The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. * A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. * The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. * A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. * Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. * Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. * More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. * Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. * Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." * Marilyn Monroe had six toes. * If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. * Women blink nearly twice as much as men. * Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. * The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. * The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. * TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. * If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. * A snail can sleep for 3 years. * American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. * China has more English speakers than the United States. * The electric chair was invented by a dentist. * Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. * "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. * The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. * Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. * Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. * In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. * Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. * No word in the English language rhymes with month. * The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. * Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. * In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. * Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. * The most common name in the world is Mohammed. * Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. * Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. * The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." * If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. * Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. * On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. * The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE * It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. * You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. * You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider * In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. * A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. * The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. * Polar bears are left-handed. * The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. * A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. * Butterflies taste with their feet. * Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. * Starfish haven't got brains. |