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- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
- A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if
strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds
will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the
salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results.
This is true for all foods.
- A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to
7 miles away.
- Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine.
His parents thought he might be retarded.
- John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach
from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the
same time.
- The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
- There are no words in the English language that rhyme with orange, month, purple, or silver.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded
Wendy before.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona
Lisa's lips.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
- Bubble gum contains rubber.
- Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
- Cat's urine glows under black light.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- The only ten-letter word you can type on the top keys of a typewriter is -- typewriter.
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
- It's possible to lead a cow up stairs...but not down them.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33 and she would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
- Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
- In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
- Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
- 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
- A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
- People Do Not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
- Only 7% of the population are lefties.
- Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
- The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
- The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- Some lions mate over 30 times a day.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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