Most lipstick contains fish scales!
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Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
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Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
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A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Porcupines float in water!
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
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The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!
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Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
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The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
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A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
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Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
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Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
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The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
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The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
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One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
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The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
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It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
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You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
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7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
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5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
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Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
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It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
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Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
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The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.
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Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
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The words "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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"a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, but dogs only have about 10.
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No word in the English language rhymes with "month."
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No word in the English language rhymes with "purple."
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word types with only the left hand.
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The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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All polar bears are left-handed.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan.'
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"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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Scientists once created a guitar so small, using cell,
that it could only be seen under a high powered microscope.
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The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand
is to search for water.
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John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An
Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
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Among the music catalogs that Michael Jackson owns
the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
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In most television commercials advertising milk, a
mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used
in place of the milk.
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Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on
the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
[ditto with the President and Vice President]
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The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903
used a tomato can for a carburetor.
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Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical
cords cut from women who give birth.
( They are reused in vein transplant surgery)
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Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
(They were seventh cousins)
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If Coca cola wasn't colored, it would be green.
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Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using
products made for right handed people.
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Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
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Astronauts cannot cry. In space, there is no gravity, so
the tears can't flow.
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A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you
can eat your plate.
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In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
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Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
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An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
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In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
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Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
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Your nose and ears never stop growing.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Hot water is heavier than cold.
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They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
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Starfish have eight eyes...one on the end of each leg.
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Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
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There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
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Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
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Armadillos can be housebroken.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
