Yet MORE interesting facts:

• No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.
• 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
  morning.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
• All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
  • Spades - King David;
  • Clubs - Alexander the Great;
  • Hearts - Charlemagne;
  • Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
• Rocks explode in microwaves.
• 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321
• The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is uncopyrightable.
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
  English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
• Coca-cola was originally green.
• Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever;
• Dumbest dog: Afghan
• Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
• Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
• Only food that does not spoil: honey
• Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
• Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• Your nose and ears never stop growing.
• They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
• Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
• Men get hiccups more often than woman.
• Bugs have hair on their eyes.
• A giraffe's tongue is two feet long.
• Elephants can stand on their heads.
• Charles Osbourne had the hiccups for 69 years. He later said that the hardest part was keeping his false teeth in his mouth.
• To escape enemies, the African wood snake fills its eyes with blood and drools red spit from its mouth.
• Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
• On certain filter settings, Microsoft considers photo invitations from the MSN Album to be junk mail.
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language which has three double letters in a row.
  

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