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Some facts that you might - or might not want
to know:
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves
to
death.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which
is why
Elvis'middle name was spelled Aron; in honour of his brother.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
plane
crashes.
- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn
white.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left
handed people do.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
remember the word you want.
- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only one row of the keyboard.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from
each salad served in first-class.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
of
1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
- The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other
people in the world?
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long
and it
refers to a distinct part of DNA.
- The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every
five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips
in
times of war or other emergencies
- One in seven Americans cannot identify the USA on a world map.
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