| >>The electric chair was invented by a dentist. >>Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world? >>When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. >>The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. >>Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. >>On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. >>The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. >>"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. >>The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. >>It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. >>You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. >>Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. >>Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. >>You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. >>The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. >>There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. >>Cat's urine glows under a black light. >>Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. >>In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. >>Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. >>Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. >>The most common name in the world is Mohammed. >>Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. >>One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition. >>Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. >>The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." >>If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. >>Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. >>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. >>In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. >>If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. >>Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. >>The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. |
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