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* A starfish does not have a brain, just nerves to keep its bodily functions working.
* The average speed of a housefly is 45mph.
* A turkey can run 20mph.
* An elephant can be pregnant for 2 years
* All elephants walk on their tiptoes because the back portion of their feet is made of all fat and no bone and won't support their weight.
* It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.
* Frogs can't swallow with their eyes opened.
* Felix the Cat's girlfriend's name was Phyllis.
* A polar bear's fur is not white, it's clear.
* A cheetah is the only cat that cannot retract its claws.
* A cat's urine glows under black light.
* A mosquito has 47 teeth.
* A swan is the only male bird that has a penis.
* Camel hair brushes are actually made from squirrel hair.
* It is a misdemeaner to kill or threaten a butterfly in Pacific Grove, California. City Ordinance #352
* The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
* The true way to breed Dobermans is by mating a female Rotweiler with a male Standard Poodle. It's the poodle that gives them their agressive nature.
* Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
* Millions of trees have been planted by squirrels that bury their nuts, then forget where they hid them.
* The Madagascar Hissing cockroach is one of the only insects that does not lay eggs, instead it gives live birth to its young.
* The average woman goes through 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
* The average man grows 26.7 feet of facial hair in his lifetime.
* The average human heart will pump 48 million gallons (U.S.) of blood through the body in the course of a person's lifetime.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood through you to suirt it out of you up to 9.5meters.
* A male pig can have an orgasm lasting up to 30 minutes.
* On average, forest fires in Canada destroy twice the amount of trees harvested by the country's forest industry.
* A common flea can jump 350 times its body length. In comparison to humans, that is like a 6 foot tall athlete jumping the length of 7 football fields.
* Men are 6 times mor likely to be struck by lightning than women.
* Every square-inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves.
* The plastic things at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.
* If you started counting right now, at a rate of 100 numbers per minute, you could count all of the stars in our Galaxy, The Milky Way, in 2000 years.
* The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
* Virginia Woolf wrote all of her books while standing up.
* A one-day weather forecast can take about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
* Big Ben was slowed down five minutes one day when a flock of birds, starlings, decided to take a rest on the minute hand.
* Soweto, in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
* Dorothy, from "The Wizard of Oz's" last name was Gail. It is shown on her mailbox in Kansas, in the movie.
* More people are using blue toothbrushes than any other color. About 1 in 3.
* Two-thirds of the eggplant in the world is grown in New Jersey.
* Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except for the Catholic Church.
* S.O.S. doesnot stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by a 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters "S" and "O" were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it in and read it.
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* In-grown toenails are hereditary.
* Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while taping his show "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom".
* You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV sitting on the couch.
* Compact discs read from the inside of the disc to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* The tongue is the fastest healing part of the human body.
* "Mr. Mojo Risin'" is an anagram for Jim Morrison, who sang it.
* The Sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth.
* The term "The whole nine yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their planes on the ground, the .50 calibre machine gun ammo belts were exactly 27 feet long before being loaded. When they fired a whole load of ammo at the enemy, they gave them, "The whole nine yards".
* 101 Dalmations and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoons with both parents present and don't die throughout the movie.
* There are only 4 words in the English language that end with "dous": Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.
* Cranberry Jell-O is the only Jell-O flavor which uses "real fruit" flavoring. The others are all, "artificially flavored".
* The movie playing at the drive-in at the beginning of "The Flintstones" was "The Monster.
* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
* Tweety was introduced as a baby bird, with no feathers. The censors made him have them because they said, "He looked naked".
* Apples are more efficient than caffeine at keeping people awake in the morning.
* In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least 7 times.
* Animal crackers come in 18 different shapes.
* On an average day, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza.
* A whale's penis is called a dork.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange or purple.
* Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of unicorns.
* The name Wendy was thought up for the book "Peter Pan" and has since then became popular.
* The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercize naked".
* The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days.
* 13% of men surveyed, admitted that they have tried on a bra at some time in their life.
* You should not eat crawfish with a straight tail, it was dead before it was cooked.
* Ninety-nine percent of all lobsters die a few weeks after hatching. In fact the chances of a lobster ever growing up lage enough to end up on your dinner table is 10,000 to 1.
* If you took all of Bill Gates' money and converted it into $100 bills; it would take a person counting them at a rate of 100 per minute, 8 hours a day, 365 days a year... 40 years to finish counting it all.
* If a person were to fart continously for 6 years and 9 months, they would expell enough gas to create an explosion equal to that of the Hiroshima bomb.