A cockroach will live nine days without its
head, before it starves to death.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All Polar bears are left-handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza
every day.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150
calories an hour.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs
only have about ten.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
China has more English speakers than the
United States.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland
because he doesn't wear pants.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both
parties are registered blood donors.
Elephants are the only animals that can't
jump.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming
1/10 of a calorie.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded
history not to have a full moon.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that
have sex for pleasure.
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements
would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and
have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
If the population of China walked past you in
single file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9
months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic
bomb.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will
eventually turn white.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6
days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of
coffee.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair
from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have
been domesticated.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike
annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
More people are killed by donkeys annually
than are killed in plane crashes.
No word in the English language rhymes with
month.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected
intravenously.
On average, people fear spiders more than they
do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today
is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers,
they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be
116 or older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine
years longer than left-handed people do.
Shakespeare invented the word
"assassination" and "bump."
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with
only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side
when intoxicated.
The average human eats eight spiders in their
lifetime at night.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves
only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when
it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while
its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by
ripping the male's head off.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents end with the
same letter that they start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book
"Peter Pan."
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has
twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the
1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between
Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest muscle in the body is the
tongue.
The word "lethologica" describes the
state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The word racecar and kayak are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are two credit cards for every person in
the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be
made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more likely to be killed by a
Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
You can't kill yourself by holding your
breath.
You share your birthday with at least nine
million other people in the world.
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