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- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- 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.
- Butterflies taste with their feet
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- 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 yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you will 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.
- 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.
- 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 the1930s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
- 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 words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- Starfish have no brain.
- 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 most common name in the world in 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 strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- The word racecar, kayak and radar 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 only on one row of the keyboard.
- You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- And Finally: You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
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