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| I have a new favorite book series, no it's not the lord of the rings, or any thing else from some fancy author. it's the bathroom reader books, there are 18 of them, you should go out and buy one or two or seven. so anyway here are some facts that i have found in the four books i own. |
| ~Polar bears are left handed ~Rainbows are donut-shaped when veiwed from above ~The earth's rotation is gradually slowing ~Elephants cannot jump ~As many as 275 bacteria colonies are extanged during a kiss ~Blind people don't see images in thier dreams, they hear and feel ~A goldfish kept in the dark will eventually turn white ~The black box on an airplane is actually orange ~You can burn 150 calories an hour banging your head against the wall ~Ketchup was once sold as a medicine ~A watermelon is really a berry ~Eating spicy foods is a common cause for stinky feet ~Odds that a grain of rice grown in the U.S. will be brewed into beer, 1 in 10 ~The next full moon on Halloween will be in 2020 ~Mosquitors prefer blonds to brunettes ~There are 1,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrilion i think) ants alive at any given time ~The fastest sneeze was clocked at 100 mph, the average is 40 mph ~Blonds have more hair than dark-haired people ~A hippo can outrun a human ~A New Yorker could eat out every night of their life and never eat at the same place twice ~Of the 13,528 women who believe thay have been aubducted by aliens, 1,501 say the aliens took their underwear ~Milk with iron added into turns coffee green ~You burn 26 calories with a one minute long kiss ~Goodyear once made a tire entirely out of corn ~The Incas measured time by how long it took to cook a potato ~It's impossible to lick your elbow ~Raindrops faall as fast as 22 mph ~Mr. Ed's real name was Bamboo Harvester ~The average office chair will travel 8 miles in a year ~Lemon pledge has more lemons than country time lemonade ~A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue ~longest underwater kiss:2 minutes, 18 seconds ~Whales dream ~The odds a child will be born albino is 1 in 9,000 ~in the 1700s people thought eating ladybugs would cure the measles ~Your brain uses the same amount of power that it would take to light a 10-watt light bulb ~Chance that a peanut grown in the U.S. will go into peanut butter: 33% ~Los Angeles is bigger than Delware and Rhode Island combined ~Honey is easy to digest because it has already been digested by the bees ~The pouch in a pelicans beak can hold 2 gallons of water ~The worlds largest office chair is 33 ft tall ~Centeral Africa has the largest variety of animals dangerous to man. Ireland has the least ~The most dangerous animal in Ireland: the bumble bee ~The CIA once called an assassination team the "Health Alteration Comittee" ~You can buy a pen contaning Abe Lincoln's "genetic essence" for $1,650 ~13 boxes of jello are sold every second ~Every 4 second some one some where in the world opens a can of spam ~Democrats are more likely to own a cat than a republican ~Tombstones were origonaly put on graves so the dead couldn't escape ~lightning bolts are 2 inches wide ~one in 500 people have one blue eye and one brown eye ~33% of people asked to take a survey refused to do so ~More boys than girls are born in the day, more girls are born at night ~On some Caribbean islans, the oysters can climb trees ~According to Oscar Mayer, the Wienermobile is 55 hot dogs long, 25 hot dogs high,10 hot dogs wide, and weighs 10,000 lbs ~Ancient Egyptian tombs are decorated with pictures of watermelons ~It takes four hours to hardboil an ostrich egg ~Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream gives its ice cream waste to farmers, who use it as pig feed. The pigs love it all--exept for mint oreo, they refuse to eat it ~When your face blushes, the lining of your stomache turns red too ~The average teenage girl owns seven pairs of jeans ~It's against the law to stare at the mayor of Paris ~The man who created the Thighmaster was once a bhuddist monk ~"Vodka" is Russian for "little water" ~Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down ~The statue of liberty's index finger is 8 feet long ~There are more bagpipe bands in the U.S. than there are in Scotland ~In his entire lifetime, King Louis XIV bathed three times ~Illegible handwriting is known as "griffonage" (I suffer from griffonage) ~Horses can't sit Next page |