#1: In 4000 BC Egypt men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.

#13: Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

#14: A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

#19: The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

#34: Mospquito repellents don't repel. The spray blocks the mosquitos sensors so they don't know you're there.

#35: The human brain is about 85% water.

#36: It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.

#47: The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

#48:The Neanderthal Man's brain was bigger than modern man's.

#54: Swans are the only birds with penises.

#66: 40 people are sent to hospital for dog bites every minute.

#72: The average human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon.

#74: A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

#76: Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

#82: In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

#89: Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

#100: The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

#111: Some lions mater over 50 times a day.

#116: 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

#123: More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

#124: A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

#132: Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they're an ox.

#147: Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

#152: In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in sand.

#162: You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

#167: Reindeer like to eat bananas.

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