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In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance), but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
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The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter (dustcover) on backwards.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
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Camel's milk does not curdle.
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In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
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All porcupines float in water.
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Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
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The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie". (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
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When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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Polar bears are left-handed.
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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
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The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
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Starfishes haven't got brains.
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