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A cat has 32
muscles in each ear.
A cat's urine
glows under a blacklight.
A cockroach will
live nine days without it's head, before it starves
to death.
A crocodile
cannot stick its tongue out.
A dime has 118
ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a
lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a
memory span of three seconds.
A pig's orgasm
lasts for 30 minutes.
A shark is the
only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Al Capone's
business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
All 50 states are
listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the $5 bill.
All of the clocks
in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on
4:20.
Almonds are a
member of the peach family.
Americans on the
average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Amount American
Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first class:
$40,000.
An ostrich's eye
is bigger than it's brain.
An ostrich's eye
is bigger than its brain.
Banging your head
against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
Chances of a
white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.
Chances that an
American lives within 50 miles of where they grew
up: 1 in 2.
City with the
most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong
Kong.
Coca-cola was
originally green.
Did you know that
you are more likely to be killed by a champagne
cork than by a poisonous spider?
Dreamt is the
only English word that ends in the letters
"mt."
Elephants are the
only animals that can't jump.
(thankfully)
Every day more
money is printed for Monopoly than for the US
Treasury.
Every time you
lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
Humans and
dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
If you fart
consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic
bomb.
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 England, the
Speaker of the House is not allowed to
speak.
In ancient Egypt,
Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In most
advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
It's impossible
to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @
home!)
It's impossible
to sneeze with your eyes open.
John Lennon's
first girlfriend was named Thelma
Pickles.
Los Angeles's
full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
de los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
Maine is the only
state whose name is just one syllable.
Men can read
smaller print than women; women can hear
better.
Mr. Rogers is an
ordained minister.
No word in the
English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
or purple.
On a Canadian two
dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
On an American
one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield"
and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand
corner.
On average people
fear spiders more than they do death.
Peanuts are one
of the ingredients of dynamite.
Polar bears are
left handed.
Right-handed
people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
Rubber bands last
longer when refrigerated.
Smartest dogs: 1)
border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever.
Dumbest dog: Afghan.
Some lions mate
over 50 times a day.
Starfishes
haven't got brains.
State with the
highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska.
Stewardesses is
the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
The Hawaiian
alphabet has 12 letters.
The ant can lift
50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own
weight and always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
The average
person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average
person's left hand does 56% of the
typing.
The catfish has
over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank
#1 for animal having the most taste
buds.
The characters
Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
The flea can jump
350 times its body length, that is like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
The giant squid
has the largest eyes in the world.
The human heart
creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The longest
one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
The male praying
mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping
the males head off.
The microwave was
invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his
pocket.
The name for Oz
in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet
and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The national
anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece
has memorized all 158 verses.
The only real
person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The strongest
muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
There are 293
ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336
dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are more
chickens than people in the world.
There are only
four words in the English language which end in
"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous.
Tigers have
stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
Two-thirds of the
world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
When the
University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at
home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest
city.
Who's that
playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme?
Paul Reiser himself.
Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies' room during a
dance.
You can't kill
yourself by holding your breath.
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