-Whites are called caucasions not because there's such thing as Caucasia or anything, but our origins are the Caucasus mountains, hence, caucasian.
-A neutron star is a star with the mass of the sun, the size of San Francisco.
-A nanocentury is just over 3 seconds. (Also the equivqalent of the average person's patience while waiting for a computer to load...)
-A theory about the edge of the universe is that on the outer edge is an orange wall. The Big Bang was an explosion, and the explosion is still occuring, with the orange wall on the edge. So, the sky isn't the limit, the great orange wall is!
-An eagle can see so well that it could read newspaper print from a mile away.
-The name Wendy was made up in the book "Peter Pan".
-Hershey Kisses are called kisses because the machine that makes them makes a smacking noise when it comes up from the belt, leaving the chocolate in place.
-There are more English speakers in China than there are in America.
-Females blink nearly twice as much as males do.
-A goldfish's memory is 3 seconds long. Each pass around the fish bowl is a totally new experience.
-The longest word in the English dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis," which is the scientific name for "Black Lung," a disease that miners would get in their lungs from the silicon dust from volcanoes. 'pneumono' -lung 'ultramicroscopic' -implies dust 'silico' -silicon 'volcano' -volcano 'koniosis' -disease
-The billionth digit of pi is 9.
-The Bible has been translated into Klingon. (What kind of Star Trek nutjob did this?!?)
-The Hawaiian alphabet consists of 12 letters.
-You can kill ants in roughly 10 seconds by spraying them with diluted dish soap.
-In the beginnings of America, people thought that alcohol was healthy and encouraged kids to drink it.
-If a statue in the park of a horseman whose horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
-If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-You are more likely to be struck by lightning, twice, than win the lottery.
-You are more likely to die from a champagne cork hitting you in the eye or from a donkey kicking you in the face than dying on an airplane.
-There was an old English law that stated a man couldn't beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb. Hence, "rule of thumb".
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
-If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-The word "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
-A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
-A group of ravens is called a murder.
-A group of officers is called a mess.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
-The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
-In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
-There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.
-A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
-Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie ChaplinLook-alike contest.
-The number 2 to the power of 13,466,917 minus 1 is now the largest known prime number.
-There used to be cocaine in Coca Cola. (early 1900s)

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