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- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
- A shrimp's heart is in their head.
- People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,
your heart stops for a millisecond.
- In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one
reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
- Rats and horses can't vomit.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
-1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
-0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.
-1 out of 4 Americans do not know what their astrological sign is.
-1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecom services every minute.
-13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
-Average speed of Heinz ketchup from the mouth of an opened bottle: 25 miles per year.
-Europe is the only continent without a desert.
-A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
-All porcupines float in water.
-Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
-About one million meteors reach our atmosphere every hour
-A chameleon's tongue can be twice the length of it's body
-Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt
-In Paris, the McDonald's big 'M' is the only one in the world that is white, rather than yellow.
-Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
- Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo".
- It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
- There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
- The longest non-talking film ever made was And Warhol's Sleep. It consists solely of a man sleeping for eight hours.
-Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
-The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
-It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
-Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
-Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
-90% of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
-On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
-Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.
-You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
-An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
-In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
-Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
-Average life span of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
-Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
-Assuming Rudolph was in front there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
-According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
-Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
-Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
-Adolf Hitler was addicted to speed.
-If each count was a second it would take 12 DAYS to count to a million and 32 YEARS to count to a billion.
-In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
-Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
-In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
-About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why?)
-Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
-Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
-The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
-A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
-Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
-The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
-In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
-Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
-Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
-Bubble gum contains rubber.
-You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
-Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
-The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
-Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
-In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
-A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
-About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
-It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
-Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
-Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
-Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
-There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
-Mosquitos have teeth.
-Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
-Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
-The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
-When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
-Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
-27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
-In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
-"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajoe.
-The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as six inches, depending on the temperature.
-One square inch of the sun's surface shines with the intensity of 300,000 candles.
-The heart of a giraffe weighs 25 pounds, is two feet long, and has walls 3 inches thick.
-The highest wind velocity ever recorded on Earth is 231 miles per hour.
-The ancient Romans were fond of eating mice.
-Pain travels at a speed of 350 feet per second.
-The total weight of all insects on Earth is twelve times greater than the weight of all people.
-To ward off enemies, the horned lizard can squirt blood from its eyelids.
-Bats consume 400-500 mosquitoes an hour.
-One ounce of the material that constitutes a spider's web could stretch 2,000 miles.
-A person living to age 75 will have slept about 220,000 hours -- or about 23 years.
-The total amount of skin covering the human body weighs six pounds.
-A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
-The albatross can sleep while in flight.
-A solar day on Mercury, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about six Earth months.
-The Earth travels around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.
-A horse's heart is capable of pumping 200 liters (about 50 gallons) of blood per minute -- enough to fill the gas tank on a pickup truck three times faster than a gas pump would.
-The people of Iceland read more books per capita than any other people in the world.
-The fastest temperature change on record is a rise of 49 degrees Fahrenheit in two minutes, from -4 degrees F to 45 degrees F. It happened in Spearfish, South Dakota, U.S.
-The temperature in eastern Siberia can get so cold that the moisture in a person's breath can freeze in the air and fall to the ground.
-The Egyptians trained baboons to wait on tables.
-Up to 150 tons of meteorite fragments slam into Earth every year.
-Most people, by age sixty, have lost 50 percent of their taste buds and 40 percent of their ability to smell.
-Kernels of popcorn have been found in the graves of pre-Columbian Indians.
-Rain contains vitamin B-12.
-Lightning strikes the earth somewhere more than seventeen million times every day, or about two hundred times every second.
-New York City's Central Park is nearly twice as big as the world's second-smallest country, Monaco.
-Bees must collect the nectar from two thousand flowers to make one tablespoonful of honey.
-Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin.
-Rainforests cover less than 7 percent of the earth's surface, yet they receive almost half of all the rain that falls on land.
-The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
-Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world
-Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet
-The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime
-A bolt of lightning travels at speeds of up to one hundred million feet per second, or seventy-two million miles per hour
-Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels
-An inch of snow falling evenly on one acre of ground is equivalent to about 2,715 gallons of water
-The U.S. shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year
-The eye of the giant squid is fifteen inches in diameter -- the size of a basketball
-Dragonflies may have as many as twenty thousand lenses in each eye
-Soccer players who head the ball 10 or more times per game have an average IQ of 103. Those who head the ball once or less have an average IQ of 112
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