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| Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines in an attempt to get free merchandise. The odds of a pregnant woman having a boy are 1.048-to-1, meaning there's a better chance of having a boy. Close to 20 percent of all adults in the US have a cockroach living in their ear canal. For the United States' bicentennial, the people of Lake City, Pennsylvania, built a $6000 landing pad for UFOs. Some species of oysters are ambisexual. They begin their lives as males, then become females, and then change back to males. The leech has 32 brains. The Hawaiian alphabet is made up of only 13 letters. In Saudi Arabia, there are solar-powered pay phones. Rats can swim for half a mile without resting, and they can tread water for three days straight. Your eyeball weighs about an ounce. It would take about 1.12 million mosquitoes simultaneously biting to drain an average adult's complete blood supply. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. It takes about 850 peanuts to make an 18-ounce jar of peanut butter. The asian elephant is the only animal, besides a human being, that can stand on its head. Giraffes have the same number of bones in their necks as humans do. Nondairy creamer is flammable. The life span of a taste bud is 10 days. A dork is a whale's penis. Rabbits cannot vomit. The dot over the letter i is called a tittle. Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough to hold it. There is enough iron in your body to make a small nail. Pigs can run a seven-minute mile. If everyone that was abducted by aliens told the truth, you'd have a better chance of being abducted by aliens than winning the lottery. All facts were taken from Stuff Magazine |
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