| >>In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. >>A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. >>The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. >>Polar bears are left-handed. >>The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. >>The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. >>First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. >>Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. >>Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. >>More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. English language. >>The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. >>The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. >>TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. >>If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. >>The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. >>A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. >>Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. >>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. >>Starfish haven't got brains. >>Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. >>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. >>The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. >>There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. >>Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." >>A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. >>Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. >>Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. >>The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. >>When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. >>The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank >>Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life". >>The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz." >>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. >>Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. >>The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. >>There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. >>Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. >>The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. >>A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. >>There are more chickens than people in the world. >>Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. >>A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. >>A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. >>A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. >>On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. >>There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. |
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